[Arm-netbook] could some kind person guide me through the process of build andoid for the Mele?

[simon at koala.ie]

On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 14:26:43 +0100, Emilio López <turl at linux-sunxi.org>  
wrote:

> El 08/07/12 08:10, simon at koala.ie escribió:
>> it would appear that the binary that goes into the recovery.img is
>> not able to read the sdcard. i really don't know why.
>
> Is your first and/or single partition on the SD card vfat? That's what
> it expects.

it is.

>
>>
>> i have traced the binary back through github and there is no
>> indication where the source of this is located.
>
> You're looking for bootable/recovery/ most likely.

the binary recovery image was provided by "torc" i do believe
>
>>
>> anyway, i have a workaround. i can go into recovery with adb and
>> mount a USB key:
>>
>> mount -t vfat /dev/block/sda1 /sdcard
>>
>> and install cm9 from there.
>>
>> the touchscreen on the device i'm using for my experiments (yes i
>> know i said i was doing this on a mele :-|) does not work.
>
> Tip: on the stock ROM, lsmod, then start rmmod'ing the touchscreen
> drivers until your screen stops working. Then you know which one it is.

good advice. i was proceeding the other way around :-)
>
> You can read dmesg too, the drivers are usually quite verbose.

i have looked briefly.

>
>>
>> of course cm9 has disabled root access. one quick hack on su.c and
>> a rebuild later and i can boot into cm9 and try to work out why
>> things are not working.
>
> You can also 'adb root' to gain adb shell root access. You might need
> to go and authorize root access on the development menu; adb root will
> instruct you if needed. You can do so with a USB mouse if your
> touchscreen is not working.

that is also disabled. i'm going to undo my hack to su and instead change  
the default in the settings xml. that is less invasive.

 from looking at the ramdisk from a working livesuit image i see that i  
need to insmod a whole bunch of drivers. well at least that is what a  
working .img does. once i get that working i can refine it down to  
determine what hardware is actually in this tablet.

i feel like sherlock holmes trying to work out "who done it"
>
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