Some News
There's been some progress. The kernel is kinda booting now. We're still a long way's off but at least its doing something. We can now see text scrolling and a lovely picture of tux. Since LUC@X seems to have disappeared, we kinda had to start over but the xdandroid devs have been totally awesome in helping our collective asses
We kinda need to get our own team together though. I'm gonna try my best but I'm no kernel hacker, so if anyone wants to join me please don't hesitate. We DO need help!
I'm told that the reason why none of the kernels worked is because the whitestone/imagio has only one die of ram instead of two and the kernel is not programmed to recognize it. This happens on other devices too and its the reason why the topaz kernel seemed to be the only one working. Using an experimental, monodie only kernel (a later version of the one LUC@X was using), we managed to get ahead a bit.
I'll keep you guys posted but PLEASE, if you can help, please do so. We need coders mostly but also testers who can write clearly in english/spanish/german. (It's no good to test if you can't communicate the results and those are the languages we understand
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Here's a summary of the progress so far:
Code:
+ Booting on emwe's monodie kernels: Tests were performed using FRX07 and swapping kernels/modules only. The old kernel has no modules file. The Android Debugging Bridge (adb) doesn't work on either kernel.
- Using the old, experimental kernel mentioned in this [1] thread:
Produces two vibrations after haret and a white screen. The system seems to be booting meanwhile and eventually goes into power saving mode, blacking out the screen but leaving the backlight on. Using HARET scripting as indicated here [2], it produces the following log [3]. The log is all jibberish after that final error. IMPORTANT NOTE: The kernel produces no data.img when executed through HARET scripting, however it DOES spit out a data.img when executed normally through HARET. However, the screen is blank and its impossible to tell whats going on differently.
[1]http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/2083817-post234.html
[2]http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9357431#post9357431
[3]http://paste2.org/p/1593592
- Using linux-msm-topa100-2010-08-23-A-monodie-only-pkg provided by EMWE:
Produces two vibrations after haret and text appears on screen along with your friendly neighborhood Tux. It eventually reaches an error that loops every 120 seconds. HARETscripting logs, obtained with the same method as before, are here [1] . NOTE: This kernel does NOT produce a data.img file. With or without HARETscripting.
[1] http://paste2.org/p/1593601