Seeing as no one has reported success or failure yet, I decided to give this a try based on the basic porting instructions.
First some basic notes for those unfamiliar with the Nook Color. The biggie, it comes unlocked out of the crate. If you insert a micro-sd card with the correct partition layout and uboot setup, it'll boot from it rather than the local flash, no mods required. In the past someone managed to mangle together an android kernel with full Ubuntu desktop userland using this and got a semi-working setup but sadly never pursued it. Anyways, it's an OMAP 3 series cpu with 512MB RAM, and a 1024x600 display. No GPS, BT is working but there isn't an antenna wired to it so the range is very limited, no cellular support. Officially CM supports CM7 and CM10, the community has CM10.1 up and running unofficially which I use. Current kernel is 3.0.8. Following the guide I setup a dev environment inside a chroot on my 12.10 box. First step after phablet-dev-bootstrap fills my volume with src is to enable the new device. Because CM10.1 isn't directly supported I added the current official repositories to my manifest as below: <project path="device/bn/encore" name="CyanogenMod/android_device_bn_encore" remote="github" revision="refs/heads/jellybean" /> <project path="kernel/bn/encore" name="CyanogenMod/android_kernel_bn_encore" remote="github" revision="refs/heads/encore-omap3-3" /> Binary blobs were extracted, init.encore.rc and ramdisk_tools.sh were modified to remove nosuid from any mounts. encore_defconfig was modded as required. main.mk modded as directed. This leads up to trying brunch, which fails. CHROOT jcoombs@Colossus:~/encore$ brunch encore including vendor/cm/vendorsetup.sh build/core/config.mk:160: *** TARGET_ARCH not defined by board config: device/bn/encore/BoardConfig.mk. Stop. Device encore not found. Attempting to retrieve device repository from CyanogenMod Github (http://github.com/CyanogenMod). Found repository: android_device_bn_encore Default revision: phablet-10.1 Checking branch info Default revision phablet-10.1 not found in android_device_bn_encore. Bailing. Branches found: gb-release-7.2 gingerbread gingerbread-release jellybean Use the ROOMSERVICE_BRANCHES environment variable to specify a list of fallback branches. build/core/config.mk:160: *** TARGET_ARCH not defined by board config: device/bn/encore/BoardConfig.mk. Stop. ** Don't have a product spec for: 'cm_encore' ** Do you have the right repo manifest? No such item in brunch menu. Try 'breakfast' CHROOT jcoombs@Colossus:~/encore$ export ROOMSERVICE_BRANCHES=jellybean CHROOT jcoombs@Colossus:~/encore$ brunch encore including vendor/cm/vendorsetup.sh build/core/config.mk:160: *** TARGET_ARCH not defined by board config: device/bn/encore/BoardConfig.mk. Stop. Device encore not found. Attempting to retrieve device repository from CyanogenMod Github (http://github.com/CyanogenMod). Found repository: android_device_bn_encore Default revision: phablet-10.1 Checking branch info Using fallback branch: jellybean Adding dependency: CyanogenMod/android_device_bn_encore -> device/bn/encore Syncing repository to retrieve project. warning: local_manifest.xml is deprecated; put local manifests in `/home/jcoombs/encore/.repo/local_manifests` instead warning: local_manifest.xml is deprecated; put local manifests in `/home/jcoombs/encore/.repo/local_manifests` instead fatal: duplicate project CyanogenMod/android_device_bn_encore in /home/jcoombs/encore/.repo/manifest.xml Repository synced! Looking for dependencies Adding dependencies to manifest Adding dependency: CyanogenMod/android_kernel_bn_encore -> kernel/bn/encore Syncing dependencies warning: local_manifest.xml is deprecated; put local manifests in `/home/jcoombs/encore/.repo/local_manifests` instead warning: local_manifest.xml is deprecated; put local manifests in `/home/jcoombs/encore/.repo/local_manifests` instead fatal: duplicate project CyanogenMod/android_device_bn_encore in /home/jcoombs/encore/.repo/manifest.xml Done build/core/config.mk:160: *** TARGET_ARCH not defined by board config: device/bn/encore/BoardConfig.mk. Stop. ** Don't have a product spec for: 'cm_encore' ** Do you have the right repo manifest? No such item in brunch menu. Try 'breakfast' That's where I'm currently at. I'm going to try tracking down the community CM10.1 repos to see if those improve things next. So not a spectacular start, but at least the next person looking for nook color notes will see an attempt now. Joshua Coombs -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
