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| author | Yuval Adam <_@yuv.al> | 2017-08-07 22:05:24 +0300 |
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| committer | Yuval Adam <_@yuv.al> | 2017-08-07 22:05:24 +0300 |
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diff --git a/docs/wiki/landrover-a9/index.html b/docs/wiki/landrover-a9/index.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..af136de --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/wiki/landrover-a9/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> + <head> + <meta charset="utf-8"> + + <title>postmarketOS</title> + + <meta name="description" content="Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones"> + <meta name="keywords" content="postmarketOS"> + + <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> + <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> + <meta name="robots" content="all"> + + <link rel="canonical" href="https://postmarketos.org/wiki/landrover-a9/"> + + <link href="/static/css/tachyons.min.css" rel="stylesheet"> + <link href="/static/css/main.css" rel="stylesheet"> + </head> + + <body> + <div class="mw7 center"> + <div class="cf ph2-ns"> + <a class="title" href="/"> + <h1 class="f2 lh-title"> + <img src="/static/img/recycle.png"></img> + <span>postmarketOS</span> + </h1> + </a> + <div class="menu"> + <ul> + <li><a href="/">Home</a></li> + <li><a href="/wiki/">Wiki</a></li> + <li><a href="/blog/">Blog</a></li> + </ul> + </div> + +<h1>landrover a9</h1> +<h3>Contributors</h3> +<ul> +<li>alexlep</li> +</ul> +<h3>Random information</h3> +<ul> +<li>Obscure phone:<blockquote> +<p>This is just another clone from millions of devices from Chinese manufacturers.</p> +</blockquote> +</li> +<li>MT6582 CPU</li> +<li>Product code F090_GPS_KK</li> +</ul> +<h3>Status</h3> +<ul> +<li>a boot.img file with kernel, initramfs and dtb file from pmOS does <em>not</em> work.</li> +<li>alexlep has a boot.img file from the vendor somewhere (extracted from the device?), that works when flashed via <code>fastboot boot</code>. It can not be extracted like a normal boot.img file, as reported on IRC. Probably the extraction tool can't handle the files.</li> +<li>according to alexlep, there is a 512b header in front of the kernel and initramfs:<blockquote> +<p>ramdisk and kernel has 512 bytes added in the beginning of the files</p> +<p>custom header with file description</p> +</blockquote> +</li> +<li>...and simply prepending that header in front of a custom initramfs/kernel does not work, as he reports.</li> +</ul> +<p>extracted boot.img, first bytes of pmOS initramfs (not working):</p> +<pre class="codehilite"><code>sp@sppc:~/else/pmbs_work/chroot_native/pmos/extracted$ xxd -l 50 ramdisk +00000000: 1f8b 0800 0000 0000 0203 949a 0d70 1ce5 .............p.. +00000010: 79c7 5fb0 09b2 621b 411d ac16 0317 c7a1 y._...b.A....... +00000020: 0ed8 d6d9 96b1 2026 11b5 70d4 5814 4344 ...... &..p.X.CD +00000030: ea49 .I</code></pre> + + +<p>extracted boot.img, first bytes of the vendor's initramfs (working):</p> +<pre class="codehilite"><code>sp@sppc:~/else/pmbs_work/chroot_native/olololo/extracted$ xxd -l 50 ramdisk +00000000: 8816 8858 f5a7 0c00 524f 4f54 4653 0000 ...X....ROOTFS.. +00000010: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ +00000020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 ffff ffff ffff ffff ................ +00000030: ffff</code></pre> + + +<h3>Links</h3> +<ul> +<li><a href="https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/issues/73">#73</a> lists lots of issues with the device, and additional information, such as fastboot's partitions output</li> +<li><a href="http://ruggedphoneco.com/smartphones/8-alps-a9-smartphone.html">This might be the same phone?</a></li> +</ul> + + </div> + </div> + </body> +</html>
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