[PRJ][OS]Linux and Android on HTC Diamond "NOT YET WORKING"

cr2 · Sep 28, 2008

cristian974 said:
"Found machine Generic MSM7xxxA"
but HaRET don't start Android...

"Android OS" is just a marketing term innovated by google.
Haret loads and starts the linux kernel image (zImage), which
is device-specific. HTC creates so much device/driver variations,
that you can't expect a zImage for a different device working for you.
AFAIK, nobody has created a zImage for Diamond yet.

mligor · Sep 29, 2008

cr2 said:
"Android OS" is just a marketing term innovated by google.
Haret loads and starts the linux kernel image (zImage), which
is device-specific. HTC creates so much device/driver variations,
that you can't expect a zImage for a different device working for you.
AFAIK, nobody has created a zImage for Diamond yet.

That is true, but zImage is just Linux kernel, you do not have different kernels for different computer configurations (it is mostly just CPU related). I have tried yesterday, and seams that it doesn't even come so far to load zImage... and my opinion is that if we get Haret to work, we will able to boot some zImage (maybe without some drivers, or maybe will crash during loading, but that will be one step forward anyway).

kState · Sep 29, 2008

haret cvs

hi, in haret cvs before some hour is changes relating to Raphael

i try compile it, now say: "Found machine Raphael", but still freeze

sibbor · Sep 29, 2008

kState said:
hi, in haret cvs before some hour is changes relating to Raphael
i try compile it, now say: "Found machine Raphael", but still freeze

Oh, nice! Hopefully we'll see some more progress soon. Keep us updated!

TripleQ · Sep 29, 2008

Yeah I also notificed that...

I just compiled it with the latest CVS source..

For people who are interested..see attachment for that version of haret.

-Mr. X- · Sep 29, 2008

TripleQ said:
Yeah I also notificed that...

I just compiled it with the latest CVS source..

For people who are interested..see attachment for that version of haret.

tried it for giggles as i am really interested in android.

with your haret, it doesnt even attempt to load i get "Please se start of ram (RAMADDR)"
then it errors out when it opens

TripleQ · Sep 29, 2008

Hmm thats strange..

I just worked here..

These are the release changes for this version.

20080928 0.5.2 <kevin@koconnor.net>, <ipaqlinux@oliford.co.uk>, <pmiscml@gmail.com>

* Add support for "Centrality" arm cpus.

* Better support for MSM7xxx and MSM7xxxA machines.

* Support arm6 MMU extensions. The arm6 mmu no longer supports 1K
"tiny" pages. It also adds several new page flags.

* Scan for all 1Meg mappings suitable for virtToPhys translation at
haret startup.

* Check that haret is running in "system" mode at startup - warn if
not.

* Enhance "mmutrace" to support "stm", "ldm", and "swp"
instructions.

* Add new "mmumerge" feature to "wirq". The "mmumerge" tool allows
one to detect if wince is changing the mmu mappings during a
"wirq" session.

* The high frequency polling system (the "TRACES" variable) will now
also report the approximate PC location. This can help find what
code is changing memory when "mmutrace" isn't available.

* Support "wirq" even on older machines that don't have
"allocPhysMem".

* Support GETGXINFO method of finding the video frame buffer.

* Only dynamically bind to NLedSetDevice(). This fixes startup
problems on some wince devices that don't have this function.

-Mr. X- · Sep 29, 2008

TripleQ said:
Hmm thats strange..

I just worked here..

These are the release changes for this version.

Ill try again
maybe it was a fluke

Edit. i got it working. still locks up on "Booting Linkux..."

Howell · Sep 29, 2008

Tried with Android092408 and latest Haret (given a few posts before by TripleQ) and the result is the same...

Here is haretlog.txt :

TripleQ · Sep 29, 2008

I see some differents in this new version I compiled...

The post above this one was also made by the new 0.5.2_TripleQ version

and his haretlog says:

Welcome, this is HaRET 0.5.2_TripleQ running on WindowsCE v5.2
Minimal virtual address: 00010000, maximal virtual address: 7FFFFFFF
Detected machine Generic MSM7xxxA/MSM7xxxA (Plat='PocketPC' OEM='HTC Touch Diamond P3700')

and I have a Touch pro (rapheal)
and it says

Welcome, this is HaRET 0.5.2_TripleQ running on WindowsCE v5.2
Minimal virtual address: 00010000, maximal virtual address: 7FFFFFFF
Detected machine Raphael/MSM7xxxA (Plat='PocketPC' OEM='HTC Touch Pro T7272')

So this new version is only for the touch pro?
But is also freeze the phone when booting linux...

kState · Sep 29, 2008

TripleQ said:
[...]
So this new version is only for the touch pro?
[...]

i look in source and diamond is not in machine list, but some changes maybe help on diamond too, i don't know, anyway Diamond&TouchPro still have some problem as say some people in this tread, mmu ? fb ?

keerttttt · Sep 29, 2008

Will we be needing HaReT for the android that will probably be 'ripped' from the T-mobile G1 / HTC Dream?

cr2 · Sep 29, 2008

TripleQ said:
I
So this new version is only for the touch pro?

It's only the name that is registered. diamond and raphael are
mostly identical in hardware, so wait a bit for the raphael zImage.
There are 3 LCD panels used by HTC on these devices (toppoly, hitachi and
sharp), and the framebuffer driver needs to detect them and initialize properly.
It seems that current raphael phones use hitachi LCD, so it'll be the first supported by linux. Unless you'll do it faster for other panels

cr2 · Sep 29, 2008

keerttttt said:
Will we be needing HaReT for the android that will probably be 'ripped' from the T-mobile G1 / HTC Dream?

G1 will boot directly from NAND flash, and will not need haret.
Don't forget that G1 has a different LCD, so you can't just use G1 zImage
for diamond/raphael. Let's hope that G1 will use the same TI1251 wifi chipset.

edwinzhang · Sep 29, 2008

Any progress now?

keerttttt · Sep 30, 2008

Nothing new yet?

nummer20 · Sep 30, 2008

Be patient.

ballex · Sep 30, 2008

I'm following this thread intensive right now. To me it's very exciting if it will be able to run android on the device. You go guys!

Dits_s · Sep 30, 2008

Good luck to everyone working on this! Cant wait for the results

Riel · Sep 30, 2008

Well, please cut it out making posts like 'nothing new yet'. I also want to know, and I see a new post every time beeing just SPAM.

I think we will know it when something happens in this area, please stop ASKING for progress, sjeez.

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