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

sensorama · Aug 15, 2008

Sorry for my quick post... was and still is at work so its quite hard to follow the thread at times...

Doesnt have... wich was perfectly mentioned in espens post.

carry on.

espenfjo · Aug 15, 2008

Hehe, this is funny.

GETRAWFRAMEBUFFER method gives me offset 0x1686a000 for the FB
The GAPI method gives 0x16844800
And GETGXINFO method gives me the same as GAPI.
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=DiamondMemoryMap gives 0x1666a000.

Anyone can shed some light on this?

EDIT: Sadly none of the offsets fixes my previous problems with the FB.

premy · Aug 16, 2008

Espenfjo,

I'm facing the same issues as you on my Diamond.

However, when you do a pdump 0x1666a000 0x96000, and then feed the output into gimp, you definitely get what's on the screen.

So I would tend to think that 0x1666a000 is correct.

flibblecx · Aug 17, 2008

premy said:
So I would tend to think that 0x1666a000 is correct.

Indeed, if you move the code that clears the frame buffer to before the 'Go Go Go' part it does indeed clear the FB and print to it.

This is probably not much help.

I will continue to do some debugging and find out what is causing it to apparently crash before clearing the FB during a normal run.

espenfjo · Aug 18, 2008

Ok, i cant seem to make any progress on harets FB. Tried about everything

Someone should start looking at linux instead, and just hope that haret actually runs through all the preloader code and executes linux.

parazitu22 · Aug 18, 2008

New here to the forum, but i've been reading for a while. I don't have a lot of programming skills, but I wish to thank all of the members here who work so hard on this.

Looks like google has released a new SDK v.0.9

http://code.google.com/android/download_list.html

dave94o · Aug 19, 2008

Hey guys if you need some help from the people who made the hackint0sh(maybe it will help you) then I can get some information from them,because i know these people and i can talk to them at anytime,so if you need anything just tell me

Global_Inferno · Aug 19, 2008

parazitu22 said:
New here to the forum, but i've been reading for a while. I don't have a lot of programming skills, but I wish to thank all of the members here who work so hard on this.

Looks like google has released a new SDK v.0.9

http://code.google.com/android/download_list.html

Well spotted, from the sounds of the release notes this could be the last sweep of MAJOR changes to the API.

mikesch261 · Aug 19, 2008

by the way who want Linux or that android Google spyware Crap
is there a Navigation Software for it !?
don't think so

every Software from google got tons of Spyware and Backdoors so why would anyone with a little bit of brain install a crao like this !?

liamhere · Aug 19, 2008

mikesch261 said:
by the way who want Linux or that android Google spyware Crap
is there a Navigation Software for it !?
don't think so

every Software from google got tons of Spyware and Backdoors so why would anyone with a little bit of brain install a crao like this !?

do you really know what you are talking about?

some how i don't think so.

gebruikershaes · Aug 19, 2008

the release notes say there is no bluetooth added to that release. wich is a shame

Smokuevo · Aug 19, 2008

someone please make it happen!!!

Global_Inferno · Aug 19, 2008

Maybe once the first HTC Android-based phone comes out, we can rip the OS from that? Or HTC will offer an alternative? Never know..

parazitu22 · Aug 19, 2008

i am a total noob, but I was just wondering why it is more difficult to get android working on the diamond then on the vogue. is it just because it doesn't have an SD card?

espenfjo · Aug 19, 2008

I dont know why, but there could be several reasons.
Very different hardware with less publically information about it.
The core developers not moving over to the Diamond yet.
Time.
Etc..

I have as you might have noticed looked into making this happen, but im no expert neither with C, hardware or Linux programming.

I just want to help the persons capable of such things.
But it doesnt seem like they are here? :\

Im really stuck now, no FB in the preloader, and no FB when/if Linux starts, tried using VSFB from athena but no luck.

NikPraskaton · Aug 19, 2008

mikesch261 said:
every Software from google got tons of Spyware and Backdoors...

I think the same thing about Microsoft (windows mobile) too

lol

Global_Inferno · Aug 19, 2008

Well I am a C++ programmer by trade, but the problem is, while I know a fair bit about Linux... The Diamond's software and hardware are completely :O to me..

rjpearce · Aug 20, 2008

Hi chaps,

I've read the thread and would like to help. (I'd love to see android on the diamond).

I sent an email to the lists.arm.linux mailgroup about support the the MSM7201A (the chipset for the diamond)..

I got the following response from Brian Swetland:

> > Can anyone confirm if the Qualcomm MSM7201A chipset is supported in
> > kernel v2.6.25 (on the latest GIT repository) ?
> >
> > I notice from here:
> > http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/lurker/message/20071108.075502.4ff93ee7.html
> > That MSM7200A was supported from Nov 2007. Does this include all MSM7K
> > models?

There is quite a bit of MSM7201A support in the patches available in the
git tree from git.android.com (check out the msm-2.6.25 branch, for
example). The first couple patches are in the mainline 2.6.25, but
that's about it -- we need to clean up stuff and start submitting more
of this for review to the lakml, and hopefully see more complete msm7k
support in later mainline kernels.

Expect to see some new patchsets sent to the lakml in the near future.

I know there are folks working on 7225 and 8k as well.

Brian

---

I dont know if this is any use for your chaps, but is it worth compiling with the latest kernel from google? and then creating a new boot image, just an idea (not my area of expertise!). Happy to help out anyway i can

-Rich

andrewloh · Aug 20, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quwXY3w26wg

The Andorid 0.9 SDK r1 Beta is quite impressive. If anyone would port it to HTC Diamond, that would be excellent.

Global_Inferno · Aug 20, 2008

It's shouldn't need "porting", simply intergrating with the Touch Diamonds drivers and hardware.

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