[info] Linux on SM-T585 Samsung Galaxy TAB A6 10.1 (2016)

[serdeliuk]

Hi,

Currently i am porting Linux "Ubuntu phablet" to my device Samsung Galaxy TAB A6 10.1 (2016), i have a little progress here.
Currently i was able to do following
- Recompile the kernel and enable video frame buffer
- Build init scripts and create boot.img
- Installed Ubuntu touch on system partition
- Boot to Ubuntu and enable adbd server to be able to continue.

Here you can find a video with my progress h**p://ms.serdit.ro/files/linux-boot-t585.mp4

Best regards,

Marc

 

[serdeliuk]

Added kernel linux logo

Hi,

For days i was stuck in why those nice penguins are not shown at startup, and voila, i did it....

Here is a nice one

Best regards,


M

 

[serdeliuk]

Hi,

Just to let you know that I have another breakthrough, an init boot menu which can,
- boot installed Linux from system partition
- Reboot in recovery
- reboot
- mount .iso or .img from sdcard and boot from them if contain any OS

Here is a demo

Best regards,

M

 

[serdeliuk]

I have modified the kernel's fonts to have bigger fonts on text console. This gif is loading very slow....

 

[@pops]

Help Needed

Hi. I am one of the few who is interested in having linux installd on android devices (Galaxy Tab A 10.1 2016), but there is little forums about this.

I am therefore asking for your help in trying to get this to work. I am trying to install any linux distribution thats available.

As i saw in your video you had something similar to grub bootloader. Can you share it please. B ut most importantly I'd like to know how to get linux installed.

Any necessary information will be greatly accepted.

Thank you in advance and look forward to hearing from you soon.

 

[serdeliuk]

Hi pops,

Unfortunately there is no complete linux version yet which works on this tablet, i didn't had enough time to complete my port so currently the only thing which works is the boot process of a bare linux with only command line without wifi or mobile data.
The above boot menu is actually a simple program, built by me, which loads an init scripts from desired partition based on an exit code from a loop in the initial init script. It is programmed in C and you need to know how to cross-compile on other platform apps in order to be usable, or to use it as is with precompiled menu.
Basically my linux does not have graphical interface and no peripherals yet and does not have an installable image, with a little progress on android LXC container which is up and running, but nothing tested yet.

Best regards,


Marc

 

[@pops]

Thank you very mu ch for your quick reply. I understand totally what you said. :good::good:

I believe that this is something that shouldnt be done by only one developer as it may be lots of work.

I know lots about android but not about porting or making custom roms, custom recoveries, or custom kernels. I

If you come up with anything let me know(and who ever it may concern).


Thanks so much again for your reply. :good::good:

Pops

 

[serdeliuk]

Unfortunately I will not update any of my threads on XDA-Developers websites.
I asked them to remove all my posts and delete my account, but is seems that they did't did that yet.
I will continue to work on my projects but publish the result elsewhere.

 

[@pops]

Okay but I'd really appreciate if I can stay in the know aboit this so i will leave my contact in order for you to update me. And if you may require any help from my end that wouldn't be. problem.

Email: [email protected]

Website: http://bitly.com/popscommunications

https://popsproductions.wixsite.com/popscommunications


Pops

 

[serdeliuk]

I will update the http://ms.serdit.ro page with any news i will have, you can check that page regularly if you want, or you can use that to ask anything.

 

[raphael mark]

Hi..any new updates

 

[lentas]

download linl broken

 

[serdeliuk]

I am terribly sorry, i do not have that device anymore and discontinued the work on it long time ago.

 

[lentas]

ok, i want test it

pls give link

 

[serdeliuk]

ok, i want test it

I don't think i have the source code of my work for this device anymore, as I changed quite a few computers since then and a lot of hard disks. However, i will have a look for them and if I will have them i will upload all of them on my GitHub repos.

 

[lentas]

ok

 

[serdeliuk]

ok

Meanwhile you may want to review the PostmarketOS pages, it seems to have been ported to this tablet, there is a kernel source link as well

 

[lentas]

wifi is broken from that device on pmos

 

[serdeliuk]

wifi is broken from that device on pmos

Even so, is more than i achieved, you can try to fix that.

 

[lentas]

im not a c++ coder