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Re: What modifications are necessary to create a fork that re-enables the home button

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Originally Posted by viperlox (Post 1987521)

I dont believe im misunderstanding, the power button on top is working as the home button, and the end call button is working as the sleep button with the test2 kernel. my process last night was i already had the neopeek installed on my sd card, i replaced the zimage and modules with the first test, it didnt work obviously. i then copyed the andboot folder from the latest reference to my sd card and tryed with that... i then replaced the rootfs with the 201015 i believe it was, deleted the data.img and tried again. When test2 was ready i replaced the rootfs to the original, deleted data.img and tried with test 2 and thats when it worked. So i cleared my ext2 and linux swap reinstalled neopeek and used test 2 with that it worked there too. Maybe something to do with neopeek on the card at the same time? Hope you guys can understand all this chickenscratch...

Rhod400 from uscc

edit: ok i looked again to make sure, the rootfs in the 11/1/2010 release of reference shows date modified of 9/17. That is the one i used, sooo it looks to me like the commits in the newer rootfs' has something to do with it too.

Thanks for doing the digging on this one. I have done some testing and found that with the latest rootfs, it is in fact broken. I think I traced the commit down to 6c87dd04. Everything is now working for me, so give this one a try and let me know if it works properly for you guys.

Both the kernel and the rootfs are completely up to date minus the one commit that changed the power button mapping.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11790134/test3.zip

Re: What modifications are necessary to create a fork that re-enables the home button

You got it dude! This rootfs/zImage combo does the trick. Thanks again!

Re: What modifications are necessary to create a fork that re-enables the home button

Phenomenal work! Also working here.

This thing probably deserves its own thread instead of being buried in my thread!

Re: What modifications are necessary to create a fork that re-enables the home button

Quote:

Originally Posted by manekineko (Post 1988010)

This thing probably deserves its own thread instead of being buried in my thread!

Would you mind modifiying the first post & perhaps the title? Then it wouldn't be necessary ;)

Re: What modifications are necessary to create a fork that re-enables the home button

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Originally Posted by arrrghhh (Post 1988102)

Would you mind modifiying the first post & perhaps the title? Then it wouldn't be necessary ;)

Good idea, just didn't want to step on anyone toes in making this the main thread for this patch.

Re: What modifications are necessary to create a fork that re-enables the home button

so is there some sort of guide on how to install this patch???

Re: What modifications are necessary to create a fork that re-enables the home button

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Originally Posted by killerkhatiby009 (Post 1988127)

so is there some sort of guide on how to install this patch???

...It's just like updating...?

Extract, rename rootfs to 'rootfs.img' and copy it all to where you run haret from. None of the other files should need renaming. For the record, zImage should always be that - "zImage" without a file extension. Don't rename the modules file.

Probably a good idea to delete your old rootfs, modules & zImage as well.

Re: What modifications are necessary to create a fork that re-enables the home button

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Originally Posted by manekineko (Post 1988119)

Good idea, just didn't want to step on anyone toes in making this the main thread for this patch.

Never have to worry about stepping on my toes ;)

Also, here's the script of what I'm doing to compile. I'll update these occasionally when there are updates worthwhile to re-compile.

Code:

#!/bin/sh

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Build Script for linux-msm-rhod-nand (Android on HTC) kernel, modules, XIP, and NBH

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------

#

# Set the following variables

# ANDROID -- directory with all android sources

ANDROID=~/android

# KERNEL_PATH -- directory containing the linux-msm kernel source

KERNEL_PATH=$ANDROID/linux-msm

# TOOLCHAIN_PATH -- directory containing the arm toolchain

TOOLCHAIN_PATH=$ANDROID/prebuilt/linux-x86/toolchain/arm-eabi-4.4.0/bin/arm-eabi

# MODULES_PATH -- directory containing compcache and tiwlan directories

MODULES_PATH=$ANDROID/modules

# OUTPUT_PATH -- directory to write the kernel and modules gzip

OUTPUT_PATH=$ANDROID/output

# rootfs repository

ROOTFS=$ANDROID/eclair-rootfs

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------



# make directories (if they don't exist)

if [ ! -d $MODULES_PATH/mods ] ; then

mkdir $MODULES_PATH/mods

fi

if [ -d $ANDROID/rootfs/.tmp ] ; then

rm -rf $ANDROID/rootfs/.tmp

mkdir $ANDROID/rootfs/.tmp

else

mkdir $ANDROID/rootfs/.tmp

fi



# build kernel and modules

cd $KERNEL_PATH

git pull

git revert --no-commit 6c41ca69

make ARCH=arm htc_msm_android_defconfig

make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=$TOOLCHAIN_PATH- INSTALL_MOD_PATH=$MODULES_PATH/kernel-modules zImage modules modules_install

[ $? -eq 0 ] || fail "Kernel compilation failure"



# get kernel build version

KER_VER="$(cat $KERNEL_PATH/include/config/kernel.release)"



# copy all drivers to single level directory for compression

cd $MODULES_PATH/kernel-modules

kernmods=$(find -name "*.ko")

for i in $kernmods ; do

    cp $i $MODULES_PATH/mods

done



# compress modules to a tar.gz and move to output

cd $MODULES_PATH/mods

tar czf $MODULES_PATH/modules-$KER_VER.tar.gz .

cd ..

echo "Outputting files to $OUTPUT_PATH/sdcard"

mv modules-$KER_VER.tar.gz $OUTPUT_PATH



# move new kernel

mv $KERNEL_PATH/arch/arm/boot/zImage $OUTPUT_PATH



# build rootfs

# temporary directory to use for building rootfs

TMPDIR=$ANDROID/rootfs/.tmp

REPO="git://gitorious.org/xdandroid-eclair/eclair-rootfs.git"



cd $TMPDIR



REPODIR=${REPO##*/}

REPODIR=${REPODIR%.*}

git clone $REPO $REPODIR

cd $TMPDIR/$REPODIR

[ -z ${BRANCH} ] || git checkout "${BRANCH}"

git revert --no-commit 6c87dd04



GITDESCRIBE="$(git rev-parse --verify --short HEAD)"

DATE=$(date +%Y%m%d)



cd $TMPDIR

mkdir rootfs



cd $TMPDIR/$REPODIR

./scripts/gitclean.sh

cp -a . $TMPDIR/rootfs

chmod u+s $TMPDIR/rootfs/bin/pppd $TMPDIR/rootfs/bin/su



genext2fs --root $TMPDIR/rootfs -U -N 1024 -m 1 -b 15360 $OUTPUT_PATH/rootfs-"$DATE"-"$GITDESCRIBE".img



rm -rf $TMPDIR

I just did a quick and dirty modification of the rootfs build script, so sorry about that. The most important things are to revert the following two commits:

Kernel: git revert --no-commit 6c41ca69
Rootfs: git revert --no-commit 6c87dd04

Re: What modifications are necessary to create a fork that re-enables the home button

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Originally Posted by natemcnutty (Post 1987746)

np, figured i was to only one with it working and it was probably a simple reason why. It was kinda my fault in the first place for assuming the rootfs was updated to at least the latest oct. with the 11/1 reference anyway. Glad it got figured out anyway. Thanks for doing the dirty work lol ;-)

Re: Patch that enables home button support in XDAndroid

I should have gotten involved sooner i suppose but it's unclear why we need this. To fork off just for buttons?

i hear some brains thinking ... We can probably make the whole thing dynamic.. Now just need to see how the xdandroid team feels about that. Kernle wise we can make the damn phone sing, but this is more of a userland thing in my eyes.

We talked about enabling the zoombar to do more. Any ideas what we can use it for?