SNESFAN
Retro game fanatic
I would like to flash android to the internal storage on my pandora to play around with for a while and would like some assistance if possible. I can't quite make out what needs to be done next but I think I got the idea down, just need some help pulling it together.
I've taken notaz's CM7 pnd build and compiled just android without the pnd
http://notaz.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=android_pandora.git;a=summary
had to use this patch for GCC 4.8, but it appears to compile just fine after that.
https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_external_webkit/commit/1c88029b864c88cc32767eb8d1ffe13e95445af3
For the modifications I know I will at least need to do to get it to boot and act somewhat normally there may be additional stuff needed.
1) turn the system and userdata images into a ubifs images. I know basically nothing about ubifs or how to set it up correctly, but from what I'm reading you have to be pretty exact on the calculations when creating it unlike ext2/3 that seem much simpler in comparison. This is the best rundown I've found but it is still leaving me a bit confused. If someone can fill in the blanks of what it means to pandora hardware it'd apperciate it.
http://free-electrons.com/blog/creating-flashing-ubi-ubifs-images/
2) move mount points around in init.rc so it sees the sdcard as external storeage instead of the /system and /data partitions
I think init.rc will need system mounts moved from sdcard to internal ubifs partition, but since they aren't used I don't see what it needs changed to.
original
http://notaz.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=android_pandora.git;a=blob;f=init.rc;h=eb172d787f1922633f76d7083037f782b390a655;hb=HEAD
# create mountpoints
mkdir /mnt 0775 root system
mkdir /mnt/sdcard 0000 system system
mkdir /mnt/sdcard2 0000 system system
EDIT: ripped off half my post... retyping the rest now
should look something maybe like this maybe? Feel free to correct
#mount and set permissions
mount ubifs ubi0:system /system
mount ubifs ubi0:data /data nosuid nodev
chown system system /data
chmod 0771 /data
3) create .tar.bz2 (in ubifs format) and flash to device
sudo tar -jcvf android.tar.bz2 system.img userdata.img
I've taken notaz's CM7 pnd build and compiled just android without the pnd
http://notaz.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=android_pandora.git;a=summary
had to use this patch for GCC 4.8, but it appears to compile just fine after that.
https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_external_webkit/commit/1c88029b864c88cc32767eb8d1ffe13e95445af3
For the modifications I know I will at least need to do to get it to boot and act somewhat normally there may be additional stuff needed.
1) turn the system and userdata images into a ubifs images. I know basically nothing about ubifs or how to set it up correctly, but from what I'm reading you have to be pretty exact on the calculations when creating it unlike ext2/3 that seem much simpler in comparison. This is the best rundown I've found but it is still leaving me a bit confused. If someone can fill in the blanks of what it means to pandora hardware it'd apperciate it.
http://free-electrons.com/blog/creating-flashing-ubi-ubifs-images/
2) move mount points around in init.rc so it sees the sdcard as external storeage instead of the /system and /data partitions
I think init.rc will need system mounts moved from sdcard to internal ubifs partition, but since they aren't used I don't see what it needs changed to.
original
http://notaz.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=android_pandora.git;a=blob;f=init.rc;h=eb172d787f1922633f76d7083037f782b390a655;hb=HEAD
# create mountpoints
mkdir /mnt 0775 root system
mkdir /mnt/sdcard 0000 system system
mkdir /mnt/sdcard2 0000 system system
EDIT: ripped off half my post... retyping the rest now
should look something maybe like this maybe? Feel free to correct
#mount and set permissions
mount ubifs ubi0:system /system
mount ubifs ubi0:data /data nosuid nodev
chown system system /data
chmod 0771 /data
3) create .tar.bz2 (in ubifs format) and flash to device
sudo tar -jcvf android.tar.bz2 system.img userdata.img
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