Hi there, With the purpose of makeing life easier to all external contributors that already have a Samsung Galaxy S2 (SGS2), I want to share some improvements that I did to lastest Siyahkernel. These are:
* /data partion is mounted as a real device with write permissions when FireFoxOS is installad as the Second ROM (typical sitaution for external contributors that uses their own phone to contribute). This will avoid contributors to flash 2GB data.img each time they want to test changes and all the changes they make will be saved between reboots.... wich is in fact, REAL NICE :). * The entire init.rc script has been modified to keep in mind that we don't need booting compatibility with other Android system installed (cause the real dual-boot nature of this kernel), and to load only those services that are really necessary. There's no need to keep the "filesystem boot hack", Zygote and Installd services were removed and bintvoutservice and surfaceflinger are forced to be launched (cause they are needed by the Smasung's camera HAL). I already contributed to this kernel on earlier versions to support FirefoxOS but it looks like the author is very busy with other stuff cause my pull requests to integrate these changes don't get merged in the mainstream project. The forks are on my github account: https://github.com/atilag/initramfs3, https://github.com/atilag/siyahkernel3. My plans are wrtting a simple Wiki page on how to build your own image from the sources, but in the meantime I would like to update the actual dual-boot Wiki Page [1] and add a link to a precompiled kernel zImage. This is what I want to disccus here, cause I'm not a big fan of linking with binary files and I don't really know where to host this binary (maybe a public link of my Dropbox?). Kind Regards, Juan Gómez (_AtilA_) [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Boot_to_Gecko/Dual_boot_of_B2G_and_Android_on_SGS2 _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
