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Dell finally moving on GPL? Its here get cooking!


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Posted 08 September 2010 - 08:49 AM


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Posted 08 September 2010 - 08:52 AM

Although they've ALREADY got the aero source out...

http://opensource.de...eases/aero/1.5/

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Posted 08 September 2010 - 09:15 AM

ooh, exciting stuff! looking forward to seeing what sort of things we can do with the stuff now..

I don't know much on how the android kernel world works, do you think it'll all be pure source we can tinker with? Or will we see various hardware bits done in crappy binary blobs ala nvidia?

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Posted 08 September 2010 - 10:23 AM

Finally!! :P
I bet they will only release the 1.6 source and then take about 6 months to get the 2.1/2 source out :)

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Posted 08 September 2010 - 11:00 AM

Tbh i havent looked at the Aero source yet, but I guess that will give us the best clues as to what we're likely to get. Can't see there being that much proprietary in there looking at config.gz and build.prop.
References to build.Austin I guess are theirs..

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Posted 08 September 2010 - 11:33 AM

looks like the Aero at least is using minimal proprietary blobs..

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build steps of these packages
1, bluez
1)in cupcake source tree, replace "external/bluez" folder with content of
bluez.tar.gz
2)run ". build/envsetup.sh" in the root dir of cupcake source tree
3)mmm external/bluez
2, openobex
1)Extract openobex.tar.gz to "external" folder of cupcake source tree
2)run ". build/envsetup.sh" in the root dir of cupcake source tree
3)mmm external/openobex
3, webkit
1)backup and remove "external/webkit" folder in cupcake source tree
2)Extract webkit_open_source.tar.gz to "external" folder
3)run ". build/envsetup.sh" in the root dir of cupcake source tree
4)mkdir -p out/target/product/generic/obj/STATIC_LIBRARIES/libwap_intermediates/
5)copy libwap.a in webkit_open_source.tar.gz to the "libwap_intermediates" folder
6)copy Surface.h in webkit_open_source.tar.gz to frameworks/base/include/ui/
7)mmm external/webkit
4, ppp
1)Extract ppp.tar.gz to "external" folder of cupcake source tree
2)run ". build/envsetup.sh" in the root dir of cupcake source tree
3)mmm external/ppp
5, Linux kernel
1) make blaze_defconfig
2) make
6, blob (tip:must build Linux kernel firstly before build this package)
1) install arm-linux-4.1.1
2) ./setup.sh PRODUCT=BLAZE linux_kernel_path(for
example:/home/b130/work/linux/lnx2625pxa_release/)
3) make
7, wlan
1)Extract wlan.tar.gz to "external" folder in cupcake source tree
2)backup and remove "wpa_supplicant" folder in "external/" folder of cupcake
source tree
3)backup and replace "wifi" folder in hardware/libhardware_legacy/ of cupcake with
the "wifi" folder in this package
4)move "wapi" folder in this package to hardware/libhardware_legacy/ of cupcake
5)mv wapi.h to hardware/libhardware_legacy/include/hardware_legacy/wapi.h
6)run ". build/envsetup.sh" in the root dir of cupcake source tree
7)make external/wlan

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Posted 09 September 2010 - 06:05 AM

1.12. ??

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Posted 09 September 2010 - 07:07 AM

View Postfards, on Sep 9 2010, 07:05, said:

1.12. ??

[TXT] HOW-TO-BUILD.txt 09-Sep-2010 01:36 1.9K
[ ] streak_1.12_bluez.tar.gz 09-Sep-2010 01:37 1.5M
[ ] streak_1.12_jpeg.tar.gz 09-Sep-2010 01:37 687K
[ ] streak_1.12_kernel.tar.gz 09-Sep-2010 01:43 74M
[ ] streak_1.12_wekit.tar.gz 09-Sep-2010 01:44 19M
[ ] streak_1.12_wpa_supplicant.tar.gz 09-Sep-2010 01:44 695K

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Posted 09 September 2010 - 07:10 AM

Is this actually happening??? :P

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Posted 09 September 2010 - 07:25 AM

Looks like it.. good job I freed a 25gb partition on my work PC.. :P

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Posted 09 September 2010 - 07:26 AM

Someone needs to do a quick and dirty vanilla build, STAT!

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Posted 09 September 2010 - 07:40 AM

Cant believe it !
But in case this is not another accidental leak....then they made 1st step to grow in my eyes

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Posted 09 September 2010 - 08:52 AM

*me starts downloading to my build pc :P methinks its hackin time

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Posted 09 September 2010 - 09:00 AM

its donut, so don't get too excited..

but it does show one thing, I was right when I said they were using codeauroara kernel :P

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Posted 09 September 2010 - 09:41 AM

now we've got this, I'm thinking of the best way to get it into a froyo or eclair kernel.

diff against the codearoura kernel to see what they changed then patch the froyo with the same ?

any other thoughts?

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Posted 09 September 2010 - 09:43 AM

how about trying to boot using the current kernel first as froyo *should* work with it although not perfectly

am syncing froyo tree from codearoura as i type :P

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Posted 09 September 2010 - 09:53 AM

View PostStephen Hyde, on Sep 9 2010, 10:43, said:

how about trying to boot using the current kernel first as froyo *should* work with it although not perfectly

am syncing froyo tree from codearoura as i type :P



lol

I was going to play with eclair, but am repo syncing the donut_strawberry (as its the last donut to get some work) to diff it first

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Posted 09 September 2010 - 09:55 AM

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lol

I was going to play with eclair, but am repo syncing the donut_strawberry (as its the last donut to get some work) to diff it first


lol well ill stick to froyo :P i doubt dell have changed anything for eclair in kernel (i can swap and change between eclair and donut happily in my own android port using same kernel

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Posted 09 September 2010 - 10:02 AM

View PostStephen Hyde, on Sep 9 2010, 10:55, said:

lol well ill stick to froyo :P i doubt dell have changed anything for eclair in kernel (i can swap and change between eclair and donut happily in my own android port using same kernel


yeah I think so as well, but if I can check what they've changed, we have a better way of building froyo :)

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Posted 09 September 2010 - 10:05 AM

I'm no programmer, but i'm pretty handy to a point. Anyone got a decent generic guide on building a copy of android? I want to try to compile a vanilla copy of 1.6 for the streak sans DellUI.

Following Dell's own guide seems simple enough, but its the precursor stuff i'm unsure of.

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