Building replicant for the Galaxy Player 50 (YP-G50).

[Igor Almeida]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Josh Branning
<lovell.joshyyy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29/05/12 00:11, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
>> On Mon, 2012-05-28 at 21:47 +0100, Josh Branning wrote:
>>> The galaxy player 50 has the same SoC as the galaxy S. What version of
>>> the kernel does the galaxy S use with replicant?
>> 2.6.35 I think. there is also a 3.0 available but replicant doesn't use it yet.
>>> The sources I have downloaded for the YP-G50 are for the 2.6.29 version
>>> of the kernel. There are two modules, bcm4329 and fm_si4709.
>> bcm4329 is the bluetooth+wifi chip and the si4709 is an FM radio chip.
>> forget about the modules for now, concentrate on the zImage.
>>> I compiled the kernel into a zImage and tried flashing, and there is a
>>> definite improvement (instead just the logo SAMSUNG appearing, I now get
>>> that and a black screen for about a second). The kernel modules once
>>> compiled, turn into dhd.ko and Si4709_driver.ko.
>> good, maybe it works but don't boot the rootfs.
>>> I do not have access via adb.
>> hmmm that is a problem.
>>> What should I do next to get replicant working on my device?
>> I heard that the rootfs and the kernel were tied together in Android,
>> because the bionic libc was tied to the kenrel you compile
>> against(trough the kernel headers).
>> I'm not sure if it's true or still true.
>>
>> So try compiling a recovery with your custom kenrel:
>>  * add the kernel to replicant sources
>>  * compile the recovery and the kernel together.
>>
>> Denis.
>>
>
> I deleted the kernel-aries folder and copied across the one from
> samsung, renaming it to be the same. I hope this is kind of what you
> meant? Then I ran:
>
> source build/envsetup.sh
> lunch replicant_galaxysmtd-eng
> export ANDROID_JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_HOME
> parallel_tasks=$(echo "$(grep 'processor' /proc/cpuinfo | wc -l ) + 1" | bc)
> make -j$parallel_tasks bootimage
>
> Which created a ramdisk.img at out/target/product/generic/
>
> Which I then flashed with heimdall.
>
> Now the samsung logo appears and just hangs, but the phone doesn't
> reboot automatically anymore, not sure if this is progress?
>
> Please let me know if I'm on the correct path, or what I should try and
> do next with it.

Is adb still not working?

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Igor Almeida