Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all. > > 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? > > Thanks, > > Rodolfo
There is one device running on native (or almost native debian). The device is called Nokia N9. "MeeGo was a Linux distribution hosted by the Linux Foundation, using source code from the operating systems Moblin (produced by Intel) and Maemo (produced by Nokia)." [1] Unfortunately discontinued. The problem with your undertaking is (woud be) support for hardware aka drivers. You can look at jolla [2], sailfish [3]. Honestly I admire people that have time to waste! If you want to be useful, join some of the running projects. There are also lists of devices where hardware is supported. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo [2] https://jolla.com/ [3] https://sailfishos.org/ regards
