NAND Testing - 05-25 Update: New LK, Recovery.img, Kernel Updates through Recovery

[[ACL]]

Originally Posted by natemcnutty

ACL, I'm custom building a busybox for us, and I've already compiled a flash_erase from the latest mtd utils. I currently have the initrd.gz at 1.1 MB, but I think I can shave quite a bit off if I remove some of the unnecessary stuff from busybox.

Here's what I need to know. Do we only need the commands that are used in initrd.gz and init.rc to be referenced to busybox, or do we need all of the commands that are in the /bin folder for initrd? There are quite a few commands in there that we do not use, and I'm wondering if I need to keep them, or if I can just add them in the future if we need them.

Once finished cleaning that up, I think we can get initrd.gz under 1 MB. I also think we can clear up another 3 MB of space by shifting the partition table, but I'll play with that later. Also, I'm still not sure why we are starting at an offset of 64MB for our partitions, and we can reclaim some of that space if we can find where it is safe to move it to. I'm trying to get us enough space in the system partition that we can accommodate the chefs while still having plenty of room for user date

Right now to get it to be small i removed e2fsck from the bin folder. This is because we dont check on ext2 partitions anymore so no need to have it there. That file alone is pretty big so im going to commit my change. This isnt part of busybox, but the vogue script supported ext2 img files which we dont, so it can be removed.

Well the system partition already has its own bin directory with all the goodies possible so the busybox for initrd should be the bare essentials to boot and run the install script. So i think we will be safe with a small busybox.. I think we should be good to test your busybox.

edit: oops.. not a bin directory but xbin is on system. Not sure if it has a full busy box in there..

Edit2: Also here is the latest install, update and install-seq

You are big boys so you can make your own NHB and harvest your own modules and apply it to the android update. Wifi is working for me but i cant test cdma data. I'll leave that up to you fellas.

http://htcdevs.wirelesstcp.net/files/xdandroid/