Made some progresses of porting ICS for TouchPad

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Well actually I just succeeded in booting it up, but there are still a lot of works remained...

Some pictures, taken by my Xperia Arc phone~

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It is a AOSP version ICS, I built the uImage from the tenderloin kernel in https://github.com/CyanogenMod/hp-kernel-tenderloin. There is another guy Andrew Boren who is also working on porting in https://github.com/Evervolv-ICS/android_device_hp_tenderloin, and my work is generally based on that.

You can see the screen shows "Unfortunately, System UI has stopped." Touchscreen is not working so there is nothing I can do except force shutting it down... But it still means that the booting is succeeded, screen is working, and I am happy to see that I can make such progress in only four days...

However when I shut it down and restart it, the system became stuck in booting and started looping the booting animation, which is very weird. I reinstalled the rom and it went back to normal, but I then restarted it and it went stuck again... Maybe there is something wrong in the BoardConfig.mk, I will try to figure it out in tomorrow...

I don't know whether I can fix that problem before the new year, I have to go to Birmingham to see a girl from 23th to 27th..... And I also need to keep on my current research works in the department, so my spare time is very limited.....

So don't hope too much on my works, there is nothing I can guarantee about, and I believe CM9 will be published before I can finish porting ICS, yeah.....
 

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tigerdavid

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ok，looks like i have been out for this for a long time as there are already people working on it and stuck at the same problem…… sorry if my posts has given you false hopes……

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tigerdavid said:
ok，looks like i have been out for this for a long time as there are already people working on it and stuck at the same problem…… sorry if my posts has given you false hopes……

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More devs working is never a bad thing.. but since you are interested, it might be worth contacting the CM team, to see if you can be of assistance there, since they too are working ICS>
 
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Where do you get the files that you'd normally get from 'extract-files.sh'? Do you get them from other devices with similar hardware?
 
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Where do you get the files that you'd normally get from 'extract-files.sh'? Do you get them from other devices with similar hardware?
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I haven't used extract-files.sh, but the ko files from the second github link there.... But it seems like only the screen is working so I might need to find other ways to make my device work.

I found out the problem of booting, looks like the data folder has something bad inside, but I can't be sure as I don't have any debugging tools for porting work. I have to say I am quite new in doing this job....
 
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ace9988 said:
I was gonna mention the same thing in my thread, but definitely worth a look =D

you could try having a look at this aswell...the official RUU of that

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1408961
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Thanks for the link, though I have a feeling that as touchpad is such a special device it will not be successful only to change something from other ICS rom and wish it could also work on the touchpad....

It can only be done by programming of platform development from the AOSP source code, which is a completely new area for me to start with. (though I have learned a lot in this week, and I really enjoy it!)

I believe that based on the work of @preduledrew, if anyone want to make a successful porting the remaining work is nothing but only to make a correct hardware settings from it, more like debugging and tweaking instead of coding now...

@preduledrew has updated his files in github and will start to work with @dalingrin after christmas. I think that we can see a ICS port rom in the next Jan, though not from mine I believe....

PS: If there is anybody who might be interested in working on @preduledrew's source code, there is one thing you might need to know: His kernel file cannot work in touchpad so you have to make one of your own, I would suggest compiling from @dalingrin's kernel source code. When you finish that, combine the uImage and the ramdisk built from ICS AOSP source code to make the boot.img and use that to boot up your touchpad.
 
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No. It'll be available when dalingrin is happy enough to release an Alpha. It will be very obvious when there's something available.
 
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Didn't u know it's an exclusive club? Especially since we own a tablet that came with an android lmao.. oh wait

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I guess $99 is a good reason to have 1 foot in multiple eco-systems (altho I really do like having 3 devices all in the same eco-system now, thanks to CM for TP)

EDIT: for anyone that doesn't have the links: for TP dev: https://twitter.com/#!/dalingrin
for Sensation dev: https://plus.google.com/113702637309752822154/posts (they do use the same basic chip 8x60... hopefully they are each benefiting from each others work)
 
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Looks like the disscussion here becomes misleading..... Anyway, as @dalingrin has anounced his progress about porting ICS to Touchpad, and sounds like the first alpha rom will be available in a few days, I think my work right now is meaningless, and I will stop it as there are also many other stuffs occupied in my life... Though it is not something beyond my expectations. But I will continue to do my learning of this area, and might work out the AOSP ICS rom of my own if everything is going well (though I fully doubt...), the experiences I have gained may come in handy in the future.:)

How I wish I could start do this kind of learning when I was having plenty of free time....

Anyway, thanks for the guys who ever support me for that.;)
 
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    tigerdavid
    tigerdavid
    Well actually I just succeeded in booting it up, but there are still a lot of works remained...

    Some pictures, taken by my Xperia Arc phone~

    attachment.php

    [IMG}http://http://attachments.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=822946&stc=1&d=1324352145[/IMG]
    attachment.php


    It is a AOSP version ICS, I built the uImage from the tenderloin kernel in https://github.com/CyanogenMod/hp-kernel-tenderloin. There is another guy Andrew Boren who is also working on porting in https://github.com/Evervolv-ICS/android_device_hp_tenderloin, and my work is generally based on that.

    You can see the screen shows "Unfortunately, System UI has stopped." Touchscreen is not working so there is nothing I can do except force shutting it down... But it still means that the booting is succeeded, screen is working, and I am happy to see that I can make such progress in only four days...

    However when I shut it down and restart it, the system became stuck in booting and started looping the booting animation, which is very weird. I reinstalled the rom and it went back to normal, but I then restarted it and it went stuck again... Maybe there is something wrong in the BoardConfig.mk, I will try to figure it out in tomorrow...

    I don't know whether I can fix that problem before the new year, I have to go to Birmingham to see a girl from 23th to 27th..... And I also need to keep on my current research works in the department, so my spare time is very limited.....

    So don't hope too much on my works, there is nothing I can guarantee about, and I believe CM9 will be published before I can finish porting ICS, yeah.....
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    TheRomMistress
    Thread Cleaned of Jiberish

    On another note, I wonder how many different ways there are for someone to belittle the same answer/question. Come on people, please behave like adults. Enough bad mouthing, enough belittling, enough childish behavior or else you will force my hand....or whip rather and trust me, you do not want to feel my whip.
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    tigerdavid
    tigerdavid
    Looks like the disscussion here becomes misleading..... Anyway, as @dalingrin has anounced his progress about porting ICS to Touchpad, and sounds like the first alpha rom will be available in a few days, I think my work right now is meaningless, and I will stop it as there are also many other stuffs occupied in my life... Though it is not something beyond my expectations. But I will continue to do my learning of this area, and might work out the AOSP ICS rom of my own if everything is going well (though I fully doubt...), the experiences I have gained may come in handy in the future.:)

    How I wish I could start do this kind of learning when I was having plenty of free time....

    Anyway, thanks for the guys who ever support me for that.;)
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    omnikai
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    An update from Dalingrin on Twitter:

    Erik Hardesty @dalingrin
    Touchpad ICS status: Working: browser, market, wifi, audio, etc...Not working: video playback, a few odds and ends

    https://twitter.com/#!/dalingrin/status/154492186031947776

    Good news!
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    Leoisright
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    FirstNoobToBrickHisPhone said:
    I still just think more effort should be put into something that's designed for Tablets instead of porting something that's made for phones onto a Tablet.

    Leo is a very active Dev, he's spent so much time releasing something over and over, that's dedication and he deserves respect. But seriously bro (Leo), what else is there left to do with CM7?

    Camera isn't fixed, (nobody really cares about that. Just boot into WebOS.) Rom, is fast. With hiccups here and there, expected.

    Just answer that, please.
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    There's more to do but mainly work on ics. All I know is the guys on the team is interested in fixing this entirely. Whether that is a lite sense version or fixing sound to the camera.

    I agree its pretty solid but now that more will be helping...there will be lots of little bugs to fix. Ics will be buggy too so more to do.

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