On יום חמישי 24 פברואר 2011 22:46:54 Shachar Shemesh wrote: > On 24/02/11 08:42, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > > Can you explain how those "roms" are done? What does does it mean > > "binary patching"? Points to FMs are OK, search terms are OK as well. > > FMs? Fabolous manuals of course.
> There is an open source version of Android. If you own a recent enough > development phone, you can use the standard Android Open Source Project > (AOSP) to compile a system image and flash it to your phone. It will > download a few proprietary user-mode drivers from your phone, but will > otherwise be completely open source. It will not, of course, contain any > of Google's proprietary additions (no Market, Maps, Gmail etc.) > Alternatively, there is a fork of Android called "CyanogenMod", which > brings the latest version of Android to just about any Android phone > (and some non-Android phones) in the market, provided you manage to root > the phone so you can load it. Again, some of the drivers would be > proprietary. Wait. The market is not open source? No re-implementation? Does anyone know how does the GalaxyS stand from this poit of view? How much closed source propietary drivers does this phone need..? (just for us to remember - http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/linux- doomsday ) > If you are importing your own phone to Israel, you have two options. You > can either install CyanogenMod on it, and lose all of your phone's > unique attributes, or you can try to add proper BiDi support by patching > the binary. The interresting question is how much the standard ROMs have hebrew support compared to the local ROMs we see in the field. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
