Le lundi 14 octobre 2013 à 16:14 -0700, Jonathan Petruska a écrit : > I am wondering if anyone has contacted amazon for KF support, you may > not get a possitive answer but it is worth a try. Also, would an X86 > port be possible. it may be a better base for my Lindroid. (Android > with GCC, binutils and native X11 support
We don't usually contact companies when we work on supporting their devices as they should have released the kernel source code already, and they are likely not going to provide anything more, so it'd be a pure waste of time (I've tried countless times to get documentation and source code from Samsung on various topics and failed most of the time). I have looked at the Kindle Fire, and the first generation seems like a good potential target for the future. The other generations have a signed kernel, which makes it impossible to run a free system on them. I know there are workarounds that are used in CyanogenMod, but they are not good enough for Replicant since they rely on packing a non-free binary along with the kernel image. As for x86: we only target arm devices so far, mostly phones and tablets, maybe single board computers in the future, but that's probably going to be as far as it gets. I have no particular interest in working on x86 and there is already Android-x86 which is probably the second Android systems that comes closest to fully free. It even uses mesa and DRM, which brings awesome speed with free drivers on x86. They likely distribute the non-free Linux kernel firmwares though. -- Paul Kocialkowski, Replicant developer Replicant is a fully free Android distribution Website: http://www.replicant.us/ Wiki/Tracker: http://redmine.replicant.us/ _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
