From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CCB451382C5 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2020 07:08:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC7A8E0884; Wed, 1 Jul 2020 07:08:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (mail.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9FDBCE0884 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2020 07:08:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [2001:470:4c22:ae86:babe:10:0:1] (port=50492 helo=proton) by muon with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jqWqp-00084p-VK; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 07:08:12 +0000 From: Benda Xu To: Gunwant Jain Cc: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-soc] Weekly Report: Portage Powered Android References: <20200609113939.oe2xzyimufftkjz6@tardis.localdomain> Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2020 15:08:05 +0800 In-Reply-To: <20200609113939.oe2xzyimufftkjz6@tardis.localdomain> (Gunwant Jain's message of "Tue, 9 Jun 2020 17:09:39 +0530") Message-ID: <87h7urzp9m.fsf@proton.d.airelinux.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: e0d0a382-5424-443f-b22e-7cff8796c2d2 X-Archives-Hash: 32f9e12119e512abe6acf2a241cfc7b9 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Hi Gunwant, Gunwant Jain writes: > This week, I had quite some progress on my GSoC project. The task > scheduled was to provide a `preinit` which could boot Gentoo in > System-As-Root enabled phones. I completed that for good using the > `magiskboot` tool, by hexpatching the kernel for such devices [1]. I > faced some issues after patching the kernel as well, resolving them > without the access of a serial console was inconvenient but achieved > nevertheless. I have written extensive blogs, explaining the entire > journey of doing it [2]. Overall, the process of using preinit is now > streamlined and simple. Very good to see that you have forward ported sharkbait to bleeding edge Android versions. That's a major achievement. Well done! > Apart from this, I have written a blog on the boot-mechanisms > different versions of Android have. My blogs would be the primary > source of watching my activity on GSoC, apart from the irc of-course. > > The next task scheduled for week 1-2 was to boot Android in a > container in the Gentoo land. I am pleased to inform that we have > achieved that goal as well. It is in barebones presently, but > everything (RIL, camera, etc.) works inside the Android container. > For the upcoming week, I will be writing a new `init` for bringing > support to almost every boot-mechanism Google has experimented > with. This would also help the project in being very scalable because > we would have a single point of maintainence. Good, please keep us updated on the status of the new `init`. Yours, Benda --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEENTS8ZhMowhj4Iw2H33YQtSHxcSIFAl78NlUACgkQ33YQtSHx cSLCCQ/8CXdjxYpbyyffaMF7njNBXReGUVQnFUq7oDEMr5IlWnyBr8CF77LTnaGW +MU0CmEfOluQXXxxZ93xy9QoRJwfZQsZLndWhixnJEPe1bRSaouzmDRmYvHKfmQO KLkg80F0B59yoGO/h10vXJuVs1u4s9ywBa7OZmSlMj6TXhMxFqreeVsjfkZKJkSy Riagtc9ZoctIGf2fDgxjkC3uNGsi/FN4IWo9ZlMzV8F32G6kBG+SbejCTLm7nEdf Q27VbG44GWwZ+/GQNTFGBcclR0lZeNdHCDvAICixIoMqEOpNl7qYIioBDuk+AAWS MTGFtb81f3Us93kRVOV4naTN5GvYby2v/n3FZpa7dwZ+JrDYZwUCcoYYhJDBD2Tv CkQVgTML526R3A24YZGtsBleikxbizlGJERMGFi/ZUACXRJkMBv5DjhZsHPqVe9E 1ZxPzQAbh1q8M5TxOW7B7E6W7LcdnKEpq2F04TBa6yDPS8+UEHvKN/ZOoTiMPah6 kuUfbLuV+YcUu0YTt3IXZUgtnQ8HIOAxwqb0BkncbwFBR+SdO+tsMWSXtng6QCjM y/sqWBIijG0EYTTgYVZl1JyRCogXpRJPou21BOMe1OZoF4grztc5rMOjTy9u2fYq MO5XBKb7I5nzMq1/qAEcVsbl+5TjjP+dOBZ5HrmJp18s4IaCLiE= =8nbF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--