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I98

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Hello
I am thinking of porting a Galaxy S2 4.1.2 stock touchwiz jb rom to the galaxy player 5.0 probably using cm10 as a base.However, porting requires someone to modify the player 5.0 boot.img which I can't do and I can't compile a kernel as I don't know how to do so and I don't hav Linux.I can tell the volunteer what file in the ramdisk should be modified in order to possibly have a working s2 4.1.2 port.
So is there anyone with a player 5.0 willing to either unpack the player 5.0's boot.img or compile the kernel from source with the modification I will tell you?
This project may actually succeed with the help of the community so I hope that you can help.
Thanks
 
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Meticulus

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Hello
I am thinking of porting a Galaxy S2 4.1.2 stock touchwiz jb rom to the galaxy player 5.0 probably using cm10 as a base.However, porting requires someone to modify the player 5.0 boot.img which I can't do and I can't compile a kernel as I don't know how to do so and I don't hav Linux.I can tell the volunteer what file in the ramdisk should be modified in order to possibly have a working s2 4.1.2 port.
So is there anyone with a player 5.0 willing to either unpack the player 5.0's boot.img or compile the kernel from source with the modification I will tell you?
This project may actually succeed with the help of the community so I hope that you can help.
Thanks

I can modify, the kernel source to load a ramdisk.cpio from a static folder... I was planning on doing that any way...:good:

All you would have to do is create a ramdisk.cpio with the cpio command, I think... ;)
 

I98

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I can modify, the kernel source to load a ramdisk.cpio from a static folder... I was planning on doing that any way...:good:

All you would have to do is create a ramdisk.cpio with the cpio command, I think... ;)

Ok great, I might then start this project on the weekend :D
Thanks
 
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I98

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I made the change for the kernel to load external ramdisks:
https://github.com/Meticulus/nutell...mmit/e5e17f478018d84c866f7ec829c17e0272bf0231

here is a build of the kernel with this change and the current carbon ramdisk. You can use the "cpio" tool to make/extract/repack cpio ramdisks..:good:

https://mega.co.nz/#!ZJVDWTxT!tep0VH1nmfCTxYqhDHmUfROxq-O1Joro2_RiJWqd6RI
Thanks
but when I'm using this command on Cygwin:
cpio -i -F ramdisk.cpio
I'm getting an error, bash: cpio command not found
Any suggestions?
 

I98

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May 21, 2013
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I made the change for the kernel to load external ramdisks:
https://github.com/Meticulus/nutell...mmit/e5e17f478018d84c866f7ec829c17e0272bf0231

here is a build of the kernel with this change and the current carbon ramdisk. You can use the "cpio" tool to make/extract/repack cpio ramdisks..:good:

https://mega.co.nz/#!ZJVDWTxT!tep0VH1nmfCTxYqhDHmUfROxq-O1Joro2_RiJWqd6RI
Thank you very much
but when I'm using this command on cygwin:
cpio -i -F ramdisk.cpio
I'm getting an error, bash: cpio command not found
Any suggestions?
Thanks again
 

I98

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Looks like WinRAR has support for cpio?... never tried it but...

Yeah, I tried it with WinRAR but it still didn't work, I've tried another tool but it didn't work ..
btw, is it just possible to place the init.rc file in the folder as that is the only file that has to be modified?
 
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Meticulus

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Yeah, I tried it with WinRAR but it still didn't work, I've tried another tool but it didn't work ..

1. Linux on a virtual machine.

2. push the ramdisk to your player using adb. Then, use cpio in adb shell on device or terminal emulator.. :good: