Getting Custom Kernels Running on the Droid X

[aliasxerog]

This is the thread that got this all started. Here mostly for historical reasons now that we have our own forum. This is still a very good read, and you always get something new out of it. It's kind of like your favourite book.



I've been a linux kernel developer for years and recently got a Droid X. The first thing I did was root it and install a pretty unraped froyo ROM I found these forums. I really, really want to install cyanogenmod on the phone because it would be pretty sweet. My idea consists of booting up in to the standard kernel and having a custom init to use kexec(8) to bootstrap the custom kernel. This would completely bypass the whole locked-crazy-omg-efuse-killer thing. Even if the standard kernel doesn't have kexec(8) enabled you can still execute a linux kernel because it is a relocatable elf on most systems. The whole setup isn't ideal but it could get custom kernels running until there is a better solution.

EDIT: If the are any android devs that know the system inside and out I would absolutely love your help.

[ArmyDude]

[Abe21599]

id like to see what u can do! give it a go

[aliasxerog]

Where can you download Motorola's Android sources?

[kennydied23]

I'm definitely going to be following this thread. Always good to have people working on the Droid X.

Anyway, here's the froyo source for the Droid X:
https://opensource.motorola.com/sf/g...x_source_froyo

[mcsinfl]

You should probably get in touch with koush, he ported cyanogen to d1 and was working on port to DX

SSX-DX/Tapatalk/SlideIT

[aliasxerog]

How do I get in touch with him?

[Abe21599]

irc #koush probably the easiest way.

[aliasxerog]

on what server?

[Abe21599]

just connect to the koush channel