Re: Debian natively on Android device

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm interested in the problem of running Debian on an Android device and I
> visited:
>
>  https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile
>
> .  I'm trying to follow the tutorial:
>
>  http://whiteboard.ping.se/Android/Debian
>
> , but it seems to be quite hard.  I'm stuck where the tutorial says:
>
>  # mkbootimg --base 0x00200000 --kernel zImage --ramdisk initramfs.cpio.gz -o my-boot.img
>
> , as I don't know where the file zImage is on my Android device nor the base
> address (above 0x00200000).  I got some help from the debian-mobile mailing
> list but it was not such that I managed to solve my problem.
>
> I think it's important to remark that the above tutorial, as far as I
> understand, is not about running Debian within the costraints or at the top of
> Android system, as many other kind of solutions do, but instead natively.  It
> compiles the Android kernel and replace - it seems - the original with the
> modified one.
>
> Anyone out there who's interested as well in the matter and has already
> experienced it?


Something similar:

 https://cascardo.eti.br/blog/GNU_on_a_Smartphone/

Rodolfo