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Archos (finally) releases SDE for gen9!

Monday, May 14th, 2012

So, they finally got around to it and it’s officially here! Glad to see this happening.

http://www.archos.com/support/support_tech/updates_dev.html?country=gb&lang=en

For those that want to use build-root and create something with minimal userspace the sources for SDE also appeared on archos git repository:

http://gitorious.org/archos/archos-gpl-gen9/commit/a1eb36215510a4057e71a276caf3b3f6e6ca3f5d/diffs/5645d40990cd25e39590d87ff66436b5f137b280

(note this is the source for the content of the SDE aos file, it does not allow you to create a signed AOS file. If you want to use the output, just flash it through recovery)

Tags: A101g9, A80g9, Linux kernel, mer, Plasma-Active, sde, sources
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Gen9 GPL source coming soon?

Monday, September 12th, 2011

The more observant among our readers might have already noticed that these git repositories appeared today in the official Archos Gitorious account:

And something more verbose and also for the less tech-savvy among our readers:

This will be pretty much the same type of sources like we saw them for the previous generations. (Android/Linux kernel, toolchain, µClibc userspace, …)

One very important bit: this will not be the source-code for the whole firmware. This will only be the sources for which Archos:

voluntarily provides those
has to provide those due to licensing terms (e.g. GPL)

Just to make this clear: no Android source code is to be expected.

We expect that soon Archos will also provide a SDE firmware for gen9 to enable experimentation with open-source software on this very interesting OMAP4 based hardware.

Tags: buildroot, gen9, gpl, Linux kernel, sources
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New week, new boot menu version

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

BuBU made significant improvements to the gen8 boot menu, so we’ve decided to make a blog post.

Note that this is still work in progress so you should actually follow (and link to) the boot menu guide on the developer wiki.

http://dev.openaos.org/wiki/SettingUpMultiRootGen8

Most notable recent improvements:

new advanced menu which appear in OS selection (which lead to a new menu with debugging (serial stuff), recovery, reboot, disable rooted device, disable comcache)
other important feature is check validity for /file.img if does not exists it shows a list of available *.img under storage and it magically fix the menu.lst with the selected entry
fixed the touchscreen issue (under debian/other OSes)
difference between standard and debug is that the menu for serial appears early in initramfs
for both debug/standard you can switch serial… if you selected NONE initially.. u can go back in advanced menu > DEBUGGING to change to Ether or if u selected Ether you can got to same place to change to Both (or None or whatever)
Booting off partitions including µSD card partitions
IPv6 support in kernel

We plan to bring as many features as possible to the gen7 boot menu too in the near future so stay tuned.

Please report all problems on IRC and or to our issue tracker!

Here are the files for the impatient who know what they are doing:

https://openaos.org/wp-upload/gen8/2011-07-05/

Tags: a101, a28, a32, a43, a70, boot-loader, boot-menu, gen7, gen8, gpl, Linux kernel, multiboot, multiroot, sde
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