Re: go-mtpfs
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
> Unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to give back for a while. Got
> a bit of a learning curve ahead of me.
Everyone has to start somewhere :)
> Okay, running debian in a chroot looks very interesting, although I'm
> still at the stage of figuring out what "rooting" the tablet consists
> of. Are you involved with the project?
I'm not involved with lildebi and have no experience with it.
> Would lildebi play well with an external SD card? This tablet seems to
> have only one 8G internal card, of which Android of course is taking
> about 4G at this point. (I'm not inclined to install random apps, so
> it's still pretty clean and will probably remain so.)
I'm assuming yes based on some comments on the upstream website.
> Right now, I'm just wanting to be able to use gedit, bc, and a forth
> (C source) of my own creation on the road. Want to do a little ARM
> assembler a few months down the road. Ultimately, I'd like to kick
> Android to the curb, I think. Maybe.
Fully replacing Android will be a lot of work. The problem is that the
mainline version of the Linux kernel is unlikely to support your
device, same for bootloaders like grub/u-boot. So you will need to use
the existing bootloader (usually proprietary) and Android version of
the Linux kernel with Debian. There may be some incompatibilities in
this case, some documented here:
https://wiki.debian.org/ChrootOnAndroid
> If you've had good luck with lildebi, I'll probably try that first.
>
> After I figure out how to unlock the thing and get root privileges.
> Which I assume is after I figure out how to use the google
> sdk/ndk/adb.
For tools from the Android SDK and for flashing you can just install
them from Debian jessie (or via a simple backport) with apt:
apt-get install android-tools-adb heimdall-flash-gui
https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation
> So this would be basically doing the same thing as lildebi, but at a
> lower level?
ChrootOnAndroid is basically the same thing as lildebi but not
automatic and not wrapped in an Android GUI and possibly missing some
tricks from lildebi. Some details may differ though, I haven't looked
at how lildebi works exactly.
> In sid, which I am not running. Is this going to be my first chance to
> learn how to do a backport, then? Or should I move up to sid before I
> try this?
I'd go with the jmptpfs from wheezy-backports then.
--
bye,
pabs
http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWis
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