Sure, you can share my answers on swedroid.se.
You could try contacting HTC for the kernel source. Under the terms of the GPL they are required to make it available.
Mike
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On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Shwan Ciyako <
[email protected]> wrote:
Yah , that's our major issue here , we have no idea what they have
changed and it is weird why changes is not committed to the brunch you
named!
It just sound wrong for some of us to begin to reverse-engineer the
Linux kernel!
Is it ok if I share your answers with my friends on swedroid.se's forum ?
Best regards
Shwan
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Mike Lockwood<
[email protected]> wrote:
> It looks like HTC built that kernel themselves, so we have no way of knowing
> exactly what is in it. But the android-msm-2.6.27 branch in msm.git on
> android.kernel.org should be close enough.
>
> Mike
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Shwan Ciyako <
[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you for your answer , the version we all are using is
>> "
>> shwan@shwan-laptop:~$ adb shell cat /proc/version
>> Linux version 2.6.27-dd63d1eb (u70000@Android-X01) (gcc version 4.3.1
>> (GCC) ) #1 PREEMPT Thu May 21 19:29:54 CST 2009
>> "
>> And we do want to compile the same version because then it should work
>> with the other stuff on our ROM without any major changes.
>>
>> I have used the config.gz shiped with the kernel inside the phone and
>> wanted to make those changes we want to it , do you suggest that I
>> make my own config file from scratch ?
>>
>> /shwan
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Mike Lockwood<
[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hi Shwan,
>> >
>> > I don't know off hand what kernel would come on that device. Can you go
>> > to
>> > Settings/About Phone and look at what it says for "Kernel version" at
>> > the
>> > bottom?
>> >
>> > If you want to build the latest from the kernel/msm.git repository, you
>> > need
>> > to make sure you are building the correct branch. For cupcake, you
>> > should
>> > build android-msm-2.6.27, and for donut or eclair it is
>> > android-msm-2.6.29.
>> > After checking out the correct branch, run "make msm_defconfig" to
>> > generate
>> > the kernel configuration file. If you need to change that, just edit
>> > the
>> > .config file after running msm_defconfig.
>> >
>> > Mike
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Shwan Ciyako <
[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi
>> >> I am an owner of a HTC Magic in Sweden a PVT32A variant.
>> >> We are a group trying to compile the kernel to add some stuff we are
>> >> interested in but the compiled we can make from the kernel git repos
>> >> wouldn't boot on the device.
>> >> Is there any changes made to the Kernel that are not mirrored on
>> >> kernel/msm.git repo ?
>> >> if so is the case I would like to have this patches or the entire
>> >> kernel source that would work on our Magics based on PVT32A.
>> >> As you know there is no way presented by HTC to contact developers and
>> >> I had no choice but to mail you, I will be great full if you point me
>> >> to the right person in case you can't help me out .
>> >>
>> >> Best regards
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