On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <[email protected]> wrote:
> Once everything is ported and works, and the device is official indeed > "end-users" only need ubuntu-system to flash their device for the > first time, later they can upgrade using OTA updates UI. > > For bootstrapping a new device, e.g. Nexus 5, Nexus 7 2013, any > community ports. One will need to start off with cdimage-legay > (optionally) and/or cdimage-touch. > > Thus removing support / fallbacks to cdimage-touch / cdimage-legacy > will effectively prevent us from starting new ports for new devices. > Unused by default, but very much needed for: > 1) day-to-day for unofficial ports > 2) for starting new official or unofficial port =)))) > > I hope above reasoning clears things up. > > If you are using phablet-flash with nexus device as a "user" rather > than "porter to new devices", flash it once and use over the air > updates and/or system-image-update CLI to wipe device clean. > phablet-flash is only needed on nexus device for the initial first > provisioning of unlcoked device that only has android installed on it. > The "Magic" of open-source is that I can use the device as I can see fit. And I want to use it as regular Ubuntu, installing and deinstalling as I see fit and with root access. Via ssh if needed. Do I have to abdicate from it? Ubuntu Touch is of no value to me if I cannot use it as a real system - to me it seems a locked-down system with read-only root partition is not a real system. Please say it is not so. The very reason I am an enthusiast of this system is due to the power of having a real linux system in my cellphone, just as I had with my (now dead) N900. -- Cláudio "Patola" Sampaio IRC: ptl - Yahoo: patolaaa Campinas, SP - Brazil.
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