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

[Josh Branning]

On 29/05/12 14:42, Josh Branning wrote:
> On 29/05/12 14:28, Igor Almeida wrote:
>> 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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>>
>>
> No, adb isn't working yet, I get 'device not found'.
I think I did something wrong. I've just tried the above again and I'm
getting:

make: *** No rule to make target
`kernel-aries/arch/arm/configs/aries_galaxysmtd_defconfig`, needed by
`~/replicant-2.3/out/target/product/galaxysmtd/obj/kernel/.config` Stop.