On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Gordan Bobic <gordan(a)bobich.net> wrote:
On 07/03/2012 03:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
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> I know we don't support tablets. That's been pretty comprehensively
> covered on the list already, eg:
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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/arm/2012-April/003107.html
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> But! Suddenly a tablet appears which is both much cheaper and (in
> some respects) far more powerful than the Trim Slices and BeagleBoards
> that we do support.
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> Is it possible to support Tegra2/3 tablets, at least in a headless
> configuration until there are graphics drivers?
Is there any particular reason why you cannot do something like:
1) root the device
2) dump the rootfs in a subdirectory
3) chroot /sbin/init
?
Assuming you enabled sshd, you should at that point be able to ssh into the
tablet. Or is there something in the Android kernel patches that stops this
approach?
Nothing in the Android kernel stops that approach (I think that's what
Ubuntu does on some of theirs) but it's more the things that Fedora
(primarily systemd) needs to be in the kernel such as cgroups that may
cause problems but I'm not overly up on my android default configs to
comment further.
Peter