<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">Hi guys, I'm new here. </div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>I bought a cheap-o Ainol Novo7Advanced tablet and have been playing with it for a few weeks. Have managed to get a Ubuntu chroot up and running over the Android firmware without much hassle, everything, including X11 over the framebuffer, seems to work except for the touchscreen (the kernel drivers don't seem to report events correctly for the Xorg module to understand them).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyway, after some (failed) attempts of making the tablet boot using the SD card as boot (so no Chroot needed), and trying it to show a framebuffer console, became stuck with no output at all from the kernel.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So I've spent a while looking for some way of "breaking out" easily the pins of the MicroSD to something usable without soldering on the tablet (or even opening it) for debugging, with some instructions I found here.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Aaand... I've found it.</div><div><a href="http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9419" target="_blank">http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9419</a></div><div><br></div><div>It's intended as a "sniffer" device, but it gives me easy access to the MicroSD pins which is what I wanted exactly.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I ordered it with a USB-Serial adapter, I'll keep you informed. I've fiddled around with different tablet firmwares and they all have quite similar hardware (making another tablet's firmware work is just a matter of replacing the kernel and script0.bin). </div>
<div>If my "invention" works, it could possibly turn any cheap A10 tablet into an interesting debugging device for kernel development apart from a A10 kit, or a working card release.</div><div><br></div><div><br>
</div><div>----</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Alejandro Martínez</div></font></span></div>
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