You can't build a "from scratch" ROM for the Android Dev Phone 1, Android
Dev Phone 2 or the Nexus 1 either. Lots of the chips in your phone are made
by companies who refuse to open source a thing - with no (viable)
alternatives available...

Thanks,
Kiall


On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:34 PM, debuti <[email protected]> wrote:

> why they dont release a hero kernel + anything needed to build the
> system from scratch?
>
> f***!
>
> On 12 abr, 17:40, Kiall Mac Innes <[email protected]> wrote:
> > You might be interested inhttp://
> github.com/kiall/android_vendor_communityandjnwhiteh and
> > lokX's branches - between the 3 of us, we have 2.1 building
> > for a hero and my branch also has a mostly working Dream 2.1...
> >
> > But you need lots of proprietary binaries - list of them/script to
> extract
> > them @
> http://github.com/kiall/android_vendor_community/blob/eclair/hero/unz...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kiall
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:32 PM, David Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:43 AM, debuti <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > >> And that blobs, can't be extracted from existing ROMs?
> >
> > >> Probably, but frankly I have no idea what the Hero uses and how to
> > > integrate the corresponding binaries into an AOSP tree.
> > > You were asking why it's so difficult, I just provide an answer :-)
> >
> > >> On 7 abr, 18:28, David Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> > Because you don't have all the drivers. Some hardware is supported
> > >> through
> > >> > proprietary binary blobs that run in user space. For example the
> OpenGL
> > >> ES
> > >> > hardware support library.
> >
> > >> > That's why, even you need to extract them from a device or from the
> > >> recovery
> > >> > images at developer.htc.com when you want to make an AOSP build
> that
> > >> runs on
> > >> > an ADP1.
> >
> > >> > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:52 AM, debuti <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> > > There are two types of ROMs to the Hero, the ones with sense
> (coming
> > >> > > from HTC or customized by users, but with sense anyway) and laggy,
> and
> > >> > > the ones compiled from sources with missed capabilities
> (Bluetooth,
> > >> > > glitches, etc).
> >
> > >> > > My question is, since we've got the sources for Hero kernel
> (http://
> > >> > > developer.htc.com/), and the AOSP project, why noone did compile
> a
> > >> > > fully-working-without-sense-then-faster-1.5-AOSP Rom for Htc Hero?
> >
> > >> > > OR
> >
> > >> > > why it is so difficult to compile a working 2.1 Rom if we have the
> > >> > > kernel, hence the drivers?
> >
> > >> > > Thanks!
> >
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