Need help to recompe kernel for the Nordic HTC Magic to support netfilter/iptables

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korpenkraxar

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Hi all!

As many of you might already know we have gotten a HTC Magic here in Scandinavia without support for netfilter and iptables. I've been trying to recompile a new version of the kernel on my x86_64 Archlinux box while adding these lines to the .config which I exported from my rooted phone:

Code: 
CONFIG_NETFILTER=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_STATE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REJECT=Y

I am a n00b when it comes to compiling, booting and flashing Android stuff and not really a git wizard either. I've downloaded the source, cross-compiled it with my new .config and tried booting it with fastboot only to stare at the HTC logo for 15 minutes before giving up. I suspect that I have probably failed doing the right thing at more than one step in the process but have troubles finding a full guide for Android kernel hacking and loading on the web. I am not even sure if I really compiled the 2.6.27 version used in the daldroid build I have on the phone instead of the latest version in git.

I will provide the step-by-step details below.

1. Downloading and installing the CodeSourcery Cross-compiler from
HTML: 
http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite/arm/portal/release858

2. Downloading setting up the android source code:

Code: 
git clone git://android.git.kernel.org/kernel/msm.git
git checkout --track -b msm_htc origin/android-msm-2.6.27 
git checkout -f

(here I noticed that the checkouts did not seem to download any extra code, is that expected?)

3. Setting up the cross compilation in the Makefile.

Code: 
CROSS_COMPILE=../arm-2009q1/bin/arm-none-linux-gnueabi-

4. Using my .config when running make like this:

Code: 
make zImage ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-

(a few additional options not present in the .config-file need to be manually specified before the build starts)

5. Extracting the ramdisk from the nordic daldroid boot.img:

Code: 
split_bootimg.pl boot.img

5. Trying the new kernel with the daldroid ramdisk:

Code: 
fastboot boot arch/arm/boot/zImage ../../boot.img-ramdisk.daldroid.gz 
creating boot image...
creating boot image - 1634304 bytes
downloading 'boot.img'... OKAY
booting... OKAY

6. Fail

I would really appreciate some help to get this going. How can I confirm that 2.6.27 was really used? What other gotchas I have forgotten about?
 
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maybe but why you dont try to make a boot.img and flash it?
did you set the system type to msm? it is important.
copy here your .config, maybe we can try to see if something is wrong or you can do this.

Code: 
make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=../arm-2009q1/bin/arm-none-linux-gnueabi- msm_defconfig

for do a default msm .config.
 
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For what I've seen, you're not making a kernel+ramdisk image, but loading them both splitted. Maybe you're missing the command line parametters?

Also, you can patch the kernel code to make it light up one of the leds so you can know if at least the kernel is actually booting or is getting stucked somewhere. To make this, you can patch, on board-sapphire.c, the init function:
Code: 
static void __init sapphire_init(void)
{
	int rc;
	printk("sapphire_init() revision = 0x%X\n", system_rev);
	/*
	 * Setup common MSM GPIOS
	 */
	config_gpios();
	msm_hw_reset_hook = sapphire_reset;
	msm_acpu_clock_init(&sapphire_clock_data);
	/* adjust GPIOs based on bootloader request */
	printk("sapphire_init: cpld_usb_hw2_sw = %d\n", cpld_usb_h2w_sw);
	gpio_set_value(SAPPHIRE_GPIO_USB_H2W_SW, cpld_usb_h2w_sw);
[] INSERT HERE:
gpio_set_value(SAPPHIRE_CPLD_LED_BASE+XX, 1);
Where XX is the led number you want to enable.
 
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korpenkraxar

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My .config

I stripped all the '#' commented lines from the file to have it go below the 1000 lines limit.

Code: 
CONFIG_ARM=y
CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORTS_APM_EMULATION=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_GPIO=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS=y
CONFIG_MMU=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS=y
CONFIG_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_LOCKDEP_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_HARDIRQS_SW_RESEND=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE=y
CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_HWEIGHT=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY=y
CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT=y
CONFIG_ZONE_DMA=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO__DO_IRQ=y
CONFIG_OPROFILE_ARMV6=y
CONFIG_OPROFILE_ARM11_CORE=y
CONFIG_VECTORS_BASE=0xffff0000
CONFIG_DEFCONFIG_LIST="/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"

CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP=y
CONFIG_LOCK_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT=32
CONFIG_LOCALVERSION=""
CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y
CONFIG_SWAP=y
CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y
CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y
CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=17
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE=""
CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT=5
CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y
CONFIG_UID16=y
CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y
CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y
CONFIG_PRINTK=y
CONFIG_BUG=y
CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK=y
CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y
CONFIG_FUTEX=y
CONFIG_ANON_INODES=y
CONFIG_EPOLL=y
CONFIG_SIGNALFD=y
CONFIG_TIMERFD=y
CONFIG_EVENTFD=y
CONFIG_SHMEM=y
CONFIG_ASHMEM=y
CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS=y
CONFIG_SLAB=y
CONFIG_PROFILING=y
CONFIG_OPROFILE=y
CONFIG_HAVE_OPROFILE=y
CONFIG_HAVE_KPROBES=y
CONFIG_HAVE_KRETPROBES=y
CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR=y
CONFIG_HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT=y
CONFIG_SLABINFO=y
CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES=y
CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=0
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y
CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD=y
CONFIG_KMOD=y
CONFIG_BLOCK=y

CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_AS=y
CONFIG_DEFAULT_AS=y
CONFIG_DEFAULT_IOSCHED="anticipatory"
CONFIG_CLASSIC_RCU=y

CONFIG_ARCH_MSM7XXX=y


CONFIG_ARCH_MSM7201A=y
CONFIG_MACH_TROUT=y
CONFIG_MACH_SAPPHIRE=y
CONFIG_HTC_BATTCHG=y
CONFIG_HTC_PWRSINK=y
CONFIG_MSM_AMSS_VERSION=6225
CONFIG_MSM_AMSS_VERSION_6225=y
CONFIG_MSM_AMSS_SUPPORT_256MB_EBI1=y
CONFIG_MSM_DEBUG_UART_NONE=y

CONFIG_MSM7XXX_USE_GP_TIMER=y
CONFIG_MSM7XXX_SLEEP_MODE_POWER_COLLAPSE_SUSPEND=y
CONFIG_MSM7XXX_SLEEP_MODE=0
CONFIG_MSM7XXX_IDLE_SLEEP_MODE_POWER_COLLAPSE=y
CONFIG_MSM7XXX_IDLE_SLEEP_MODE=1
CONFIG_MSM7XXX_IDLE_SLEEP_MIN_TIME=20000000
CONFIG_MSM7XXX_IDLE_SPIN_TIME=80000
CONFIG_MSM_IDLE_STATS=y
CONFIG_MSM_IDLE_STATS_FIRST_BUCKET=62500
CONFIG_MSM_IDLE_STATS_BUCKET_SHIFT=2
CONFIG_MSM_IDLE_STATS_BUCKET_COUNT=10
CONFIG_MSM_FIQ_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_MSM_SERIAL_DEBUGGER=y
CONFIG_MSM_SMD=y
CONFIG_MSM_ONCRPCROUTER=y
CONFIG_MSM_RPCSERVERS=y
CONFIG_MSM_CPU_FREQ=y
CONFIG_MSM_CPU_FREQ_MSM7K=y
CONFIG_MSM_CPU_FREQ_SCALING_MAX=528000
CONFIG_MSM_CPU_FREQ_SCALING_MIN=384000
CONFIG_MSM_HW3D=y
CONFIG_MSM_ADSP=y
CONFIG_HTC_HEADSET=y
CONFIG_HTC_ACOUSTIC=y
CONFIG_WIFI_CONTROL_FUNC=y
CONFIG_WIFI_MEM_PREALLOC=y

CONFIG_CPU_32=y
CONFIG_CPU_V6=y
CONFIG_CPU_32v6=y
CONFIG_CPU_ABRT_EV6=y
CONFIG_CPU_PABRT_NOIFAR=y
CONFIG_CPU_CACHE_V6=y
CONFIG_CPU_CACHE_VIPT=y
CONFIG_CPU_COPY_V6=y
CONFIG_CPU_TLB_V6=y
CONFIG_CPU_HAS_ASID=y
CONFIG_CPU_CP15=y
CONFIG_CPU_CP15_MMU=y

CONFIG_ARM_THUMB=y


CONFIG_TICK_ONESHOT=y
CONFIG_NO_HZ=y
CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BUILD=y
CONFIG_PREEMPT=y
CONFIG_HZ=100
CONFIG_AEABI=y
CONFIG_ARCH_FLATMEM_HAS_HOLES=y
CONFIG_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL=y
CONFIG_FLATMEM_MANUAL=y
CONFIG_FLATMEM=y
CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP=y
CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED=y
CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS=4
CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT=y
CONFIG_ZONE_DMA_FLAG=1
CONFIG_BOUNCE=y
CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS=y
CONFIG_ALIGNMENT_TRAP=y

CONFIG_ZBOOT_ROM_TEXT=0x0
CONFIG_ZBOOT_ROM_BSS=0x0
CONFIG_CMDLINE="mem=64M console=ttyMSM,115200n8"

CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_MSM7K=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_MSM7K=y



CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y

CONFIG_PM=y
CONFIG_PM_SLEEP=y
CONFIG_SUSPEND=y
CONFIG_SUSPEND_FREEZER=y
CONFIG_HAS_WAKELOCK=y
CONFIG_HAS_EARLYSUSPEND=y
CONFIG_WAKELOCK=y
CONFIG_WAKELOCK_STAT=y
CONFIG_USER_WAKELOCK=y
CONFIG_EARLYSUSPEND=y
CONFIG_FB_EARLYSUSPEND=y
CONFIG_ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE=y
CONFIG_NET=y

CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_STATE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER=y
CONFIG_ASK_IP_FIB_HASH=y
CONFIG_IP_FIB_HASH=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE=y
CONFIG_TCP_CONG_CUBIC=y
CONFIG_DEFAULT_TCP_CONG="cubic"
CONFIG_ANDROID_PARANOID_NETWORK=y

CONFIG_BT=y
CONFIG_BT_L2CAP=y
CONFIG_BT_SCO=y
CONFIG_BT_RFCOMM=y
CONFIG_BT_RFCOMM_TTY=y
CONFIG_BT_BNEP=y
CONFIG_BT_HIDP=y

CONFIG_BT_HCIUART=y
CONFIG_BT_HCIUART_H4=y
CONFIG_BT_HCIUART_LL=y
CONFIG_FIB_RULES=y

CONFIG_RFKILL=y
CONFIG_RFKILL_LEDS=y


CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH=""
CONFIG_STANDALONE=y
CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y
CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE=""
CONFIG_MTD=y
CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS=y
CONFIG_MTD_CMDLINE_PARTS=y

CONFIG_MTD_CHAR=y
CONFIG_MTD_BLKDEVS=y
CONFIG_MTD_BLOCK=y

CONFIG_MTD_MAP_BANK_WIDTH_1=y
CONFIG_MTD_MAP_BANK_WIDTH_2=y
CONFIG_MTD_MAP_BANK_WIDTH_4=y
CONFIG_MTD_CFI_I1=y
CONFIG_MTD_CFI_I2=y


CONFIG_MTD_MSM_NAND=y


CONFIG_BLK_DEV=y
CONFIG_MISC_DEVICES=y
CONFIG_ANDROID_PMEM=y
CONFIG_TIMED_OUTPUT=y
CONFIG_TIMED_GPIO=y
CONFIG_BINDER_IPC=y
CONFIG_KERNEL_DEBUGGER_CORE=y
CONFIG_LOW_MEMORY_KILLER=y
CONFIG_LOGGER=y
CONFIG_ANDROID_RAM_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_ANDROID_RAM_CONSOLE_ENABLE_VERBOSE=y
CONFIG_ANDROID_RAM_CONSOLE_ERROR_CORRECTION=y
CONFIG_ANDROID_RAM_CONSOLE_ERROR_CORRECTION_DATA_SIZE=128
CONFIG_ANDROID_RAM_CONSOLE_ERROR_CORRECTION_ECC_SIZE=16
CONFIG_ANDROID_RAM_CONSOLE_ERROR_CORRECTION_SYMBOL_SIZE=8
CONFIG_ANDROID_RAM_CONSOLE_ERROR_CORRECTION_POLYNOMIAL=0x11d
CONFIG_HAVE_IDE=y

CONFIG_MD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM=y
CONFIG_DM_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_DM_CRYPT=y
CONFIG_DM_UEVENT=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=y
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_MII=y
CONFIG_SMC91X=y
CONFIG_NETDEV_1000=y
CONFIG_NETDEV_10000=y

CONFIG_PPP=y
CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC=y
CONFIG_PPP_DEFLATE=y
CONFIG_PPP_BSDCOMP=y
CONFIG_SLHC=y
CONFIG_MSM_RMNET=y

CONFIG_INPUT=y

CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=y
CONFIG_INPUT_KEYRESET=y

CONFIG_INPUT_TOUCHSCREEN=y
CONFIG_TOUCHSCREEN_ELAN_I2C_8232=y
CONFIG_TOUCHSCREEN_SYNAPTICS_I2C_RMI=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MISC=y
CONFIG_INPUT_UINPUT=y
CONFIG_INPUT_GPIO=y
CONFIG_INPUT_KEYCHORD=y




CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_MSM=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_MSM_CLOCK_CONTROL=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_MSM_RX_WAKEUP=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_MSM_HS=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
CONFIG_I2C=y
CONFIG_I2C_BOARDINFO=y
CONFIG_I2C_HELPER_AUTO=y


CONFIG_I2C_MSM=y



CONFIG_SENSORS_AKM8976=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_PCA963X=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_MT9T013=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_MT9P012=y
CONFIG_POWER_SUPPLY=y

CONFIG_SSB_POSSIBLE=y




CONFIG_DAB=y

CONFIG_VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL=y
CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y
CONFIG_FB_MSM=y
CONFIG_FB_MSM_LOGO=y


CONFIG_HID_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_HID=y
CONFIG_USB_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_HCD=y



CONFIG_USB_FUNCTION=y
CONFIG_USB_FUNCTION_MSM_HSUSB=y
CONFIG_USB_FUNCTION_ADB=y
CONFIG_USB_FUNCTION_MASS_STORAGE=y
CONFIG_MMC=y
CONFIG_MMC_UNSAFE_RESUME=y
CONFIG_MMC_EMBEDDED_SDIO=y
CONFIG_MMC_PARANOID_SD_INIT=y

CONFIG_MMC_BLOCK=y
CONFIG_MMC_BLOCK_PARANOID_RESUME=y

CONFIG_MMC_MSM7XXX=y
CONFIG_NEW_LEDS=y
CONFIG_LEDS_CLASS=y

CONFIG_LEDS_GPIO=y
CONFIG_LEDS_CPLD=y

CONFIG_LEDS_TRIGGERS=y
CONFIG_LEDS_TRIGGER_TIMER=y
CONFIG_LEDS_TRIGGER_HEARTBEAT=y
CONFIG_LEDS_TRIGGER_SLEEP=y
CONFIG_SWITCH=y
CONFIG_SWITCH_GPIO=y
CONFIG_RTC_LIB=y
CONFIG_RTC_CLASS=y
CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS=y
CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE="rtc0"

CONFIG_RTC_INTF_ALARM=y




CONFIG_RTC_DRV_MSM7XXX=y


CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_JBD=y
CONFIG_FS_MBCACHE=y
CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_INOTIFY=y
CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER=y


CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=437
CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET="iso8859-1"

CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_SYSFS=y
CONFIG_TMPFS=y

CONFIG_YAFFS_FS=y
CONFIG_YAFFS_YAFFS1=y
CONFIG_YAFFS_YAFFS2=y
CONFIG_YAFFS_AUTO_YAFFS2=y
CONFIG_YAFFS_SHORT_NAMES_IN_RAM=y
CONFIG_NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS=y

CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="iso8859-1"
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y

CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME=y
CONFIG_ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED=y
CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK=y
CONFIG_FRAME_WARN=1024
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP=y
CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE=0
CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS=y
CONFIG_TIMER_STATS=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_SG=y
CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y
CONFIG_HAVE_FTRACE=y
CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE=y
CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_KGDB=y

CONFIG_CRYPTO=y

CONFIG_CRYPTO_ALGAPI=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_BLKCIPHER=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER=y


CONFIG_CRYPTO_CBC=y



CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_TWOFISH=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_TWOFISH_COMMON=y

CONFIG_CRYPTO_HW=y

CONFIG_BITREVERSE=y
CONFIG_CRC_CCITT=y
CONFIG_CRC32=y
CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE=y
CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=y
CONFIG_REED_SOLOMON=y
CONFIG_REED_SOLOMON_ENC8=y
CONFIG_REED_SOLOMON_DEC8=y
CONFIG_PLIST=y
CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM=y
CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT=y
CONFIG_HAS_DMA=y
 
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korpenkraxar

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Jun 25, 2009
84
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biktor_gj said:
For what I've seen, you're not making a kernel+ramdisk image, but loading them both splitted. Maybe you're missing the command line parametters?

Where XX is the led number you want to enable.
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Yeah, that could be a problem. I was under the impression that fastboot built the boot.img itself before transfering the kernel to the phone.

Interesting test with the leds. I'll check it out if I don't solve this.
 
Amon_RA

Amon_RA

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I think that HTC patched some things in that are not available in the source tree... So I doubt that you'll be able to get a kernel running build from source. If you do happen to make it run let us know :)
 
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korpenkraxar

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Jun 25, 2009
84
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Amon_RA said:
I think that HTC patched some things in that are not available in the source tree... So I doubt that you'll be able to get a kernel running build from source. If you do happen to make it run let us know :)
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I would not be suprised at all if that was the case. However, since the Linux kernel is GPL, such patches, as I understand it, also need to be under the GPL and made available upon request. Is there a public HTC source tree anywhere?

And btw, how can I fix the "recompile" misspelling in the title of this thread? It is driving me insane :)
 
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korpenkraxar

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Jun 25, 2009
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This might be a very stupid question, but here it goes:

Shouldn't it be possible to build all the extra netfilter/iptables support for the vanilla 2.6.27 kernel as modules and insmod them when running HTC's kernel? Or will that result in swift and horrible death?
 
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sammypwns

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i don't see why it wouldn't. we wouldn't need the source for htc's kernel then, right? just figure out how to build the modules? isn't that kind of how proprietary video drivers work for linux?

EDIT: Modules will work, that is certain. A little googling confirmed that's how wlan and such work (on Android)

EDIT 2: It seems like there is .config for the kernel on the phone that can be used with the standard 2.6.27 kernel source to build the android kernel.

EDIT 3: found the kernel here http://github.com/zhoukejun/android-2.6.27-yf255/tree/master
 
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sammypwns said:
i don't see why it wouldn't. we wouldn't need the source for htc's kernel then, right? just figure out how to build the modules? isn't that kind of how proprietary video drivers work for linux?

EDIT: Modules will work, that is certain. A little googling confirmed that's how wlan and such work (on Android)

EDIT 2: It seems like there is .config for the kernel on the phone that can be used with the standard 2.6.27 kernel source to build the android kernel.

EDIT 3: found the kernel here http://github.com/zhoukejun/android-2.6.27-yf255/tree/master
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I wonder if access to the kernel can help with the Bluetooth problems in the Hero ROM?
 
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korpenkraxar

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Jun 25, 2009
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gboddina said:
Bump!

Is there any news about iptables on PVT 32A based sapphire?
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Well. The kernels that we successfully have built by cross-compiling refuse to boot. Looking at the config.gz that the phone exports and trying

Code: 
make oldconfig

we have learnt that HTC has a lot of parameters specified for code that appears not to be in the standard android 2.6.27 kernel source tree. We would be very very happy if someone around here could point us to the repository holding HTC specific patches and code for the Magic/Sapphire.
 
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