Posts Tagged ‘sde’
Friday, July 8th, 2011
BuBU has built an image based on the latest openAOS and CM code:
- improved bluetooth (BT HID confirmed working)
- workaround for web browser crash
- default homepage is openaos.org
- Archos community bookmarks
- other
The latest image is openaos-gingerbread-gen8-20110708_183154.img.gz (md5sum).
Confirmed working with boot menu version featured here.
If you are new please be warned that this is still experimental and bugs are expected, for installation instructions continue reading here.
Gen7 code compiles but is not ready for public images. If you want to build it yourself for gen7 or gen8 here are some instructions.
Tags: a101, a43, a70, android, ArchDruid, boot-menu, gen8, image, multiboot, multiroot, sde
Posted in gen7, gen8 | 11 Comments »
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:
http://www.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
Posted in gen7, gen8 | 6 Comments »
Friday, June 10th, 2011
BuBu was hard at work for the last few weeks and now we have something working to show.
We’ve added gen8 support to our boot-menu. It looks and feels almost the same like on gen6 and gen7.
UPDATE: HowTo here: http://dev.openaos.org/wiki/SettingUpMultiRootGen8
Sources are here:
http://gitorious.org/archos-buildroots/gen8-kernel
http://gitorious.org/archos-buildroots/gen8
Those are our patched versions of the Archos official git.
And here are binaries:
http://download.openaos.org/bubu/gen8/
Currently known issues:
- No TS support on A70S, A70H, A101 inside the boot-menu
- TS support in boot-menu removed also from other models due to problems
- currently some problems with cdc-acm debugging, work in progress
- Vol+/- is reversed on A101
Pictures:
Disclaimer:
If it screws up your device, don’t come whining, you’ve been warned. If something doesn’t work, just reinstall original firmware or SDE.
Tags: a101, a28, a32, a43, a70, a70h, a70s, boot-menu, bootmenu, gen8, Linux kernel, multiboot, sde, sources
Posted in gen8 | 12 Comments »
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
We’d like to clarify something here and at the same time invite people to join efforts.
A question we get asked a lot in one form or the other is:
“When will there be Honeycomb on gen8 devices?”
Our answer to this is that:
Serious Honecomb adaptation can only start once there are sources for it in AOSP. This is valid for every device out there, not only Archos.
Some people might start screaming “But hardware XYZ runs Honeycomb!” – the answer to that is “No it does not!“, what some people managed to do is take binaries meant for the emulator contained in the Honeycomb SDK and run them on actual hardware. This is nowhere near what properly adapted software can do. Without checking, I’d bet it’s not even properly GLES accelerated.
openAOS would like to invite everyone interested in bringing the Honeycomb version of Android to Archos hardware to join forces!
There is a lot to be gained by everyone working together. We have learned a lot about Archos hardware and this would benefit both gen7 and gen8 as a target. There are many similarities.
We also have a good contact to Archos and this has always helped us to figure out hardware specific bits and pieces. This has helped many projects around Archos hardware, even commercial ones. The debian adaptation to gen6 hardware wouldn’t have been possible without the reference work by Kevin Boone, Smoku’s MeeGo efforts benefited from our groundwork, we have spent time working on making FroYo more than a proof-of-concept on gen7 etc.
All openAOS wants to do is help community projects that want to build around Archos hardware. So if you want to join in, contact us, preferably on IRC (see the chat button, talk to dm8tbr). We’re happy to offer our resources:
Tags: a101, a28, a32, a43, a70, android, archos5it, gen7, gen8, Honeycomb, Linux kernel, sde, sources
Posted in gen6, gen7, gen8, Uncategorized | 11 Comments »
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
Here it is:
http://www.archos.com/support/support_tech/updates.html (scroll down to the bottom, click ‘Show’, scroll again, click first button, acknowledge, download)
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A101 showing SDE boot menu – All rights reserved by av500
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A101 showing SDE boot screen – All rights reserved by av500
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A101 running Ångström – All rights reserved by av500
I haven’t tried it yet, but read on that page that it comes with a nice dual-boot menu out of the box! Let’s get it on and run some fun things on those new devices. The scope is all generation 8 Archos Internet Tablets: 28, 32, 43, 70 and 101!
Let’s discuss things on the openAOS-dev mailing list.
Cheers
Thomas
PS: Yes there should have been more/other blog posts, but personally I have a new job and far less time for openAOS than I’d like to at the moment. 
Although my new employer (Tieto Finland) is very supportive of open-source involvement, so in the future things should look better. 
Tags: 101, 28, 32, 43, 70, android, Android 2.2, Ångström, aos, boot-loader, boot-menu, gen8, gpl, Linux kernel, menu, sde, sources, update file
Posted in Ångström, gen8 | 1 Comment »
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