On 06.06.2012 00:49, Alexander Tarasikov wrote: > Hi! In this mail, I'll summarise the status of my current attempts at > running non-android distros > on Samsung Galaxy S2 (I9100) so that anyone interested in running a > traditional distro can join. > > First, I've put up the kernel repository at > https://gitorious.org/i9100-proper-linux/i9100-proper-linux-kernel > the main branch is cm9_gnu which contains the linux 3.0.29 kernel > adapted for booting linux > rootfs from mmcblk1p2 (external microsd). There is also the linaro_33 > branch, but that one has > very basic hardware support (display, wifi, bluetooth, mmc/microsd, usb, > sound, touchscreen, rear camera, but no hdmi, no sensors and suspend is > broken) > > Next, there is the u-boot port. U-boot is chainloaded from the samsung > bootloader. > It can boot android (and linux kernel, if you hardcode the cmdline) > from the recovery partition. > It can also boot custom kernels with custom boot scripts from the > internal emmc partition > (the 12g one which is called sdcard in android). > https://gitorious.org/i9100-proper-linux/i9100-uboot > pre-compiled binaries and usage instructions are described in my post > at xda-developers > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1680898 > > My aim is to get ubuntu running on this piece of hardware, > but the intermediate step is getting SHR running and adding the support to > FSO.
FSO is available in Ubuntu too :) regards, Simon -- Simon Busch - http://mm.gravedo.de/blog/ _______________________________________________ Smartphones-userland mailing list Smartphones-userland@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/smartphones-userland
