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]

:gotmyvote:

 

[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/go/projects.droidx/frs.droidx_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

 

[aliasxerog]

well I need a server to point irssi to you know

 

[Abe21599]

lol idk im not a big irc guy i just use this
freenode Web IRC (qwebirc)

 

[aliasxerog]

does anyone have any idea where the damn .kconfig file is store in the main android git tree? I can't find it anywhere.

 

[eulerphi8]

Have you also checked out the efforts to bypass the locked bootloader on the milestone? They tried using a kexec attack to initiate a second boot but couldn't get the radio to initialize correctly. The wiki is at www.droid–developers.org. Maybe some of the code there will be useful.

Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk

 

[faxxer]

kexec works but you will have no radio. The milestone guys have been working on it for awhile. You can read up on it here

https://www.droid-developers.org/wiki/Custom_recovery:alternative_methods#kexec_attack_here