how is the merging done and how are the binary blobs grabbed and merged ?
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 7:05 AM, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Divya Subramanian wrote: > > > I have tried this but I want debian to be installed as Primary OS. > > Following Ubuntu-touch porting instructions, they are flashing a image, > but > > no information is given on how to create that image. If anyone could > tell me > > how is the boot image created then it would have been a great help. > There is > > an application which helps to flash images. > > They basically take the CyanogenMod/Android version of the Linux > kernel for the specific device and merge that into a normal Ubuntu > touch install. Then they grab binary blobs from CyanogenMod/Android > and merge those too. > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Porting > > This approach is not suitable for Debian because we only support one > version of the Linux kernel. Debian will only officially support > mobile devices when people start merging support for them to Linux > mainline. In the meantime what you can do depends on how locked down > your bootloader is and how easily you can modify your Linux > kernel+initramfs partition. > > -- > bye, > pabs > > http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise >
