HTC kernel beginner

[byteflowsoft]

hello ... i'm a kernel rookie
besides the http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=XanaduxDeveloperHome link for the developers on the xda-developers wiki, is there any other link pointing to more specific kernel HTC Oxygen info ?
THANKS !!!
PS: i mean a detailed description on every aspect regarding how the kernel get's loaded on the smartphone , how it interacts with every little piece of hardware on it ,etc...

[vijay555]

Read the platform builder help files; I've been enjoying a good read in court for the last month :(

V

[byteflowsoft]

sorry if i'm superficial ... where are thoose help files ? on the [URL="http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Xanadux[/URL] wiki there are no "Oxygen HTC S310 / Dopod 310 / orange spv C100" links towards some other file ...
Are you talking about the ARM processor kernel docs out there ?? like source/linux-2.6.x.x/Documentation or "understanding the linux kernel" , "kernel development" 'n stuff ???

thanks

[byteflowsoft]

maybe i joined the wrong forum or what ???
i'm talking about porting the linux op
(i.e. XANADUx distro) on the HTC devices ...
:):)

[pof]

Hi byteflowsoft,

Hare you refering to nk.exe (wince kernel) or porting Linux kernel to htc smartphones? I think VJ pointed you to platform builder because he thougt you where talking about wince kernel, if you're talking about linux kernel then this might be closer to what you're looking for:

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Xanadux
http://vivien.chappelier.free.fr/typhoon/index.html
http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HTC_2dPhones
http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HardwareDocumentation

I recommend you going into #htc-linux on freenode, there's where all the development is discussed and there are really interesting conversations daily.

[pof]

maybe i joined the wrong forum or what ???
i'm talking about porting the linux op
(i.e. XANADUx distro) on the HTC devices ...
:):)

No... you joined the right one ;)

[byteflowsoft]

thanks a lot ...

[byteflowsoft]

is there a linux bootloader for the HTC Oxygen ? or for a starter like me it's ok to read the bootloader code for HTC Tornado due to the fact HTC tornado is quite similar to oxygen ?! ... i don't quite find specific hardware details about HTC tornado for example , not to talk about Oxygen details which are totally missing ... it's quite hard to go through the bootloader code without being superficial in the begining of the journey ... there is no detailed HTC smartphone architecture description . how did you start up ?

[pof]

There is nothing Oxygen-specific yet, and as it is a quite new device the hardware is quite unknown until someone disassembles it. The Tornado Linux port should be quite similar to what has to be done for Oxygen... I'm sorry I can't help much with other specific questions as I am not a kernel hacker, go into IRC (#htc-linux) and ask there, cr2 is "the man" you're looking for, he's really good and has done almost all the kernel work for HTC universal, there are other persons that also help a lot in the linux development on HTC devices: lkcl and rob_w did great job on the BlueAngel, now lkcl is working on the Sable. The handhelds.org wiki has a lot of info on different devices, and xda-developers wiki has a lot of info on ASIC3 chips, GPIOs, etc...

[byteflowsoft]

appreciate your info ... !