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If people think the donation bounty idea was a good one, I'll be happy to provide the donation links and statistics along with user names of people who donated (unless they want to be held anonymous)

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A bounty would definitely get people to notice and to take it seriously. I mean you get a chance to challenge yourself and at the same time a chance to win some money, why not!....I will definitely donate...

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i think its not a bad idea, but right now there's nothing users can download and test on their devices that will boot and work right away

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If enough people are interested in an n8x0 port of recent Android, I would be willing to look into it. If anyone else would like to collaborate (assuming enough people actually want this of cause), I would collaborate, especially if your able to work with the userspace part.

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i would love to see android on n8x0, am also trying to persuade it to run myself

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Ok does anyone have any idea how solca got the kernel to boot from the memory card without any obvious initrd. As I've got new kernel compiled but ity jus sits at the nokia screen. (N800 I on about here)

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I think the audience will be there if Android is running correctly on the N8X0. I know I have been waiting for it for months, hoping praying :)

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Android 2.1 might be a bit difficult to run on the N8x0 series given their lack of graphics power. Also Android is more of a phone OS then a NiT OS, still I can't say I'd argue if I could run Android on my N810 fully.

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hate to correct you but the N8x0 series HAVE got 3d graphics ability with the new TI drivers which seem to be in this kernel i have and ahave compiled. just need to work out how to boot it now

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dj_steve you are the coolest

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would'nt go that far yet lol i havent managed to boot my kernel yet am abut to start comparing configs

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Bump!

If anyone is interested in helping, whether its documentation, coding, testing ect.. please head over to the new site Helmy created. Your help is welcomed and appreciated!

http://nitdroid.co.nr/

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Http://nitdroid.com should work too now

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Already bookmarked ^_^

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:) good good, now anyone onm here know if solca left any details on his kernel source >

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I'm sure you have seen this but I figured I would post any ways.
http://code.google.com/p/nitdroid/

At the bottom of the link below he has precompiled and patch sources.
http://guug.org/nit/nitdroid/

Hope something helps ;)

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yep those dont tell me alot as i still cant see the kernel issue ill have a loosie at the omap patch though as im basing off the linux-omap kernel

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He did post his kernel and android patches online. Thats what I modified and used to get android working on the n900. Here are my patches against the kernel and android to get it booting. I also included folder from the android build details I used. Here is a quick and dirty.

You need to have bootmenu installed, and a file in your /etc/bootmenu.d/ called android.ext.item which contains

In the android-patches.tar.gz there are 2 files
n900_kernel.patch - you need to install maemo sdk and download the kernel source. After you patch the kernel, you can do a make ARCH=arm rx51_android_defconfig. You can compile using the scratchbox compiler (e.g. make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=/scratchbox/compilers/cs2007q3-glibc2.5-arm7/bin/arm-none-linux-gnueabi- -j4 zImage)

android_gralloc.patch - this allows android to boot past the android text console because of the "page flipping is not supported" issue. I couldn't find a patch to double the yres_virtual in the framebuffer driver, so this is a workaround which I believe is similiar to what bri3d did about the pmem stuff. Place this file in the root directory of your android source and patch it (e.g. patch -p1 <./android_gralloc.patch

In android-vendor.tar.gz there is one folder
bdogg64 - extract this folder to your android source/vendor directory. Feel free to rename it :). After you do that, you should be able to build the android source (e.g. make TARGET_PRODUCT=n900)

You will also need a static build of busybox.

You will need a vfat partition on the first partition of your microsd card if you want android to mount it.

Copy your android build to the sd card, extract the busybox folder into the /system/bin/ directory.

After you copy everything to your partition on your microsd, you will need a couple of additional links.
1. /sbin/init which points to /init
2. /usr/sbin/chroot which links to /system/bin/busybox/sbin/chroot
3. /dev/console (e.g. mknod dev/console c 5 1)

These instructions are for the n900, so I suppose you are using the n8x0, you will skip the kernel patching and just build the source and modify the wifi section.

I will try to guide anyone through issues if I can. I will edit this post to clear up any confusion also :D

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ill have a looksie at those patches tomorrow as im finished playing with my vmware vm for tonight

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bdogg64,
great info, thanks for it. When you clean it up as you see fit, would you mind posting it on the NITdroid discussion area please.

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Since coding and scripting are not my forté, I opened up photoshop. Let me know what you guys think. :D

P.S. Despite how it looks, the png *is* transparent. Download and use as you see fit. :cool:

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Now that looks cool. Anyone fancy making a nice 800x480 wallpaper for when we get a working os

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I second the wallpaper and up it with the request of having it a cohesive 3 page work of art :)

Steve you say "when we have it working" as if it is a forgone conclusion :) I love the optimism my friend. If you are successful with integrating the display driver, what will that mean for its usability?
As far as the other items not working (sound BT GPS) is there hope, as not having sound would be a show stopper. BT and GPS I could live without, but I don't wanna lol. Android has a lot of cool location aware applications, I would love to make use of the gps.
I know I'm getting ahead of myself a bit here but I think that's half the fun. All the possibilities

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gps shouldn be hard bluetooth neither. Ill be looking tonight at kernel. The graphics may help with speed since especially with eclair as its more graphics heavy

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Does this also mean that opensource Android applications can be ported to Maemo/Meego by patching kernel-calls etc.?

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Im theory yes they could most likely be ported from android>maemo.
But our main goal in this project is to get a fully working copy of the entire android OS on the nits

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ok progress report, been playing with kernel again. and ive got to same stage as bri3d managed (random mmc driver crashes) seems any mmc driver above the one in kernel 2.6.28 fails to boot altogether and .28 crashes, goin to try forward porting an older driver - any idea what kernel maemo uses by default


edit: hmmm that booted to a error console screen a few times and now it wont, i can see why the kernels are said to be buggy now - still working


EDIT 2: ok im uploading my current zImage to the nitdroid.com site (n8x0 current dev page) wondering if anyone else can test it as my n800 battery is near enough dead so waiting for it to charge (seems to take forever ) the rootfs is the 0.4.3 from the original nitdroid at the moment

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I'm working on the desktops in the mean time I saw Helmy decided to make a different logo using just the android font. Liking this idea I made another logo that's decidedly more android themed, and a specific logo for porting the eclair version of Android over to our Nokia tablets. This time available in png AND vectored eps for those who think it needs to be bigger ;)

However since PNG's are turned to jpgs and EPS' aren't supported as attached files here, I have to link you to my dropbox account to dload them.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4567036/NITDROID_eclair.eps
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4567036/NITDROID_eclair.png

As always do with them what you will, and enjoy :)

P.S. The backgrounds I make will be using this logo or variations on it.

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yea - if you need inspriation look at cyanogens wallpapers he uses for his nexus 1 and tmo g1 roms :) im still arguing with the linux kernel at mo, this onwe im trying now has more hacked together versions of various files ill be surprised if it compiles

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ok im going to upload my progress on kernel so far (which isnt much) shortly and link to is (going to be a rather large file so ill host it on one of my servers) if anyone else who understands kernels could have a look at it and the config and tell me whats causing it not to work id appreciate it s im baffled now... and yes im aware A LOT of the drivers are modules in the config, only wayi could fit the kernel into the 2mb flasher allows for it on the n800

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Could anyone please point me to a tarball with the kernel sources? Or the link to a precompiled and patched kernel binary I could use?

(Just any kernel that boots, with the wifi module, would be awesome.)

Not using a Debian-style distro really hurts in this environment :P

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just about to upload the source im using for the n8x0 kernel :) though it could take me a short while lol

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Could be interesting to see how that acts out on a N900 :P

You don't happen to have bdogg64's kernel do you? Or the sources, in a tarball?

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nope i dont sorry thats something he would need to up for you, my kernels uplaoding now

my kernels only based on the latest linux-omap 2.6.33 git but with android drivers so i suspect it will have omap3 (n900) support aswell

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I like it, do you have the Font used to make the logo ?

i just got a copy of Paintshop photo X3 and i was playing with it a few days back
here is what i made, hope it help out if someone wants to create some wallpapers .

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right have fun guys :

http://www.dmpsites.net/n8x0kernprogress.tbz2

its about 350mb uncompressed. has all the android drivers included also. the config i ws using is in the root folder called config-new rename to .config and compile if you want to try it on a n800/810

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good to see someone stealing htc sense screenshots lol @ helmy very nioce pics indeed though

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they where the only good screen captures i found, but i didn't look that hard anyway !

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The link is broken

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working on it, seems to be a issue their lol

ok link works now :)