Linux bootloader

[socalracer]

So I am new to the android/wm/vogue scene. As I understand it. They way this booting android from SD card works is.... Haret loads linux and then linux gains access to phone, then loads android. If this is correct I am wondering something. Is it possible to use haret to load linux then gain acces to the phone then load lets say iphone OS 3? What would be the things to overcome? I know that many people with iphones are doing the same sort of thing having a bootloader boot into linux then use another OS, which may be android at this time im not sure. Just want to understand this whole thing better.

 

[grantemsley]

The iPhone OS isn't open source like android.

This creates two difficulties:

1. We wouldn't be able to modify it to work properly with the phone's hardware.
2. If someone tried, they would probably get some angry letters from apple's lawyers.

 

[socalracer]

From what I understand about apple is that as long as you paid for it, you are allowed to modify it. so essentially if you bought an iphone then you own the software. people that have made their pc run mac osx 10.5 are not doing so illegally if they own a copy of osx 10.5. That was my understanding of it.

 

[craig0r]

From what I understand about apple is that as long as you paid for it, you are allowed to modify it. so essentially if you bought an iphone then you own the software. people that have made their pc run mac osx 10.5 are not doing so illegally if they own a copy of osx 10.5. That was my understanding of it.

This is sort of a grey area. OSX is really an interface that runs on top of a customized BSD install, which is an open-source OS. So theoretically, yes, you can modify THAT and run it on your PC, but the GUI is

Apple is also suing companies that are putting out mac clones. It's not something I'd want to mess with. Apple makes their money off hardware, not software, so they clearly don't want people running their software on hardware that isn't theirs.

Aside from this, the Vogue would not be able to handle the iPhone OS. I'm not sure just how open-source the underlying OS is, but I guarantee we'd never get all the hardware working.