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Hello, I'm glad to bring you this new, the Android-x86.org Team was released a NEW build 4.0RC2 (based in the source code 4.0.4r2.1) with gapps included, lot of fixes, and the best part, a patch included, a patch to be able to use houdini the intel binary translator which allow run ARM apps in the x86 architecture (this hack comes from Buildroid.org you can read about this here), I wanna paste here the RelaseNote4.0RC2
ReleaseNote 4.0-RC2
Android-x86 4.0-RC2 (Ics-x86).
The Android-x86 project is glad to announce 4.0-RC2 release to public. This is a second release candidate for Android-x86 4.0 stable release. Live CD ISOs are available from our sites, as usual
http://www.android-x86.org/download
http://code.google.com/p/android-x86/downloads/list
Key Features
The 4.0-RC2 release is based on the Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich branch). We have fixed and added x86 specified code to let the system runs smoothly on x86 platforms, especially for tablets and netbooks. Except the features in 4.0-RC1, the additional features in this release are
Kernel 3.0.36 with more drivers and bug fixes.
Enable Dalvik JIT compiler support.
Support some 3G modem.
Ready to run arm translator. (You still need to install Intel's libraries from BuilDroid.)
Physical keyboard layout selection.
Support two cameras.
Fake SD card is replaced by internal storage support.
We create targets optimized for different x86 platforms. Choose a suitable image for your platform.
android-x86-4.0-RC2-amd_brazos.iso for AMD Brazos platform
sha1sum: 41685b2fd9a0fcd101fc21aeb84882015a6fd976
android-x86-4.0-RC2-eeepc.iso for ASUS Eee PC family
sha1sum: 1953717ac1d606d57fc7d7293b367f8025c51b65
android-x86-4.0-RC2-asus_laptop.iso for some ASUS Laptops/Tablets
sha1sum: fa4a38fcb3e0191523b1673114d9fa076c461671
android-x86-4.0-RC2-tegav2.iso for Tegav2
sha1sum: 106b07aee820511077980275cc744c4327352394
android-x86-4.0-RC2-s103t.iso for Lenovo S10-3t tablet
sha1sum: 3ca23c78183da7b23f516f9c507d60d82b11ab5e
android-x86-4.0-RC2-thinkpad.iso for IBM thinkpad tablet
sha1sum: bc99ec3ace54c0c15c92e4e8eca87385c130ec1d
android-x86-4.0-RC2-tx2500.iso for HP tx2500
sha1sum: 303765d6da5fdb7d8d3979575f0728185e6fb120
The iso files are hybrid format. That means you can dump the iso into a usb drive and get a bootable usb stick, like
$ dd if=android-x86-4.0-RC2-xxx.iso of=/dev/sdX
where /dev/sdX is the device name of your usb drive.
Known issues
Suspend and resume doesn't work on some targets.
Not support Ethernet.
Source code
The source code is available in the main git server,
$ repo init -u http://git.android-x86.org/manifest -b ics-x86
$ repo sync
as well as the SourceForge mirror:
$ repo init -u git://android-x86.git.sf.net/gitroot/android-x86/x86/platform/manifest.git -b ics-x86
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At the same time, I wanna share with you, my personal and custom Unofficial builds one for Asus EeePC T101MT (Exclusive for my device ) and another one for EeePC Generic, with all included, you can find more info and some captures, a full description of my changes and a video demo of my build in action here.
Also, I did a little howto add houdini libs in our devices (the tutorial from BuilDroid is to apply in your source code and now part of this method isnt necesary, now you just need to copy some libs) you can fin more info here
COOKING TIME WITH ARNDROID-X86!
Enjoy!, Cheers.
installed the thinkpad version on my dell inspiron 1300. I can load the broadcom b43xx via debug mode but it does not scan or show or connect to any wifi networks. that is the only issue I have so far.
http://www.webupd8.org/2012/07/android-x86-404-ics-rc2-released-with.html
dorfd1 said:
installed the thinkpad version on my dell inspiron 1300. I can load the broadcom b43xx via debug mode but it does not scan or show or connect to any wifi networks. that is the only issue I have so far.
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Same with Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller on HP Compaq 6830s NN328ES
The solution that has helped me: disable WPA2 encryption, leave only WPA
Vaka++ (C)
Strange, but the authors of the assembly did not put the firmware for the devices, but the modules were collected, respectively, because this device does not work, such as my wi-fi card.
Added many different firmware for devices wi-fi (especially for my zd1211rw) and touchscreens and different chipsets.
archive with firmware
Unpack the archive to the /system/lib/
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hello! I need an android iso where they can run the appps arm, and use it with virtual box and have an Internet connection
can you help me?
hi everyone
ı' am new in here.
ı want to ask does INTEL BAY TRAIL (z3XXX) support to install linux installing? or not why ? (because bootloader or another thing etc..)
There is some variant of windows tablets on market but can ı install ubuntu, arch linux etc? does it support?
sorry my bad englısh
1a) UEFI/BIOS support. looks like for the Asus T100, Asus only gave a 32-bit UEFI bootloader, so there are hacks to go around it. not sure about other devices like Dell Venue 8 Pro (I don't have that much money to buy so many devices)
1b) Secure Boot option to be disabled. If you can't disable Secure Boot, there are ways to get around it (some distros provide a signed UEFI shim that preloads before grub2, but you'll have to get that shim working with 32-bit bootloaders if you hit the problem above in 1a)
2) SoC support. Intel has submitted the Bay Trail SoC to the linux kernel. However, there are still some parts missing (eg open source video driver xf86-video-intel has it somewhat supported with bugs)
here is my WIP on getting ubuntu working on my Asus T100.... only major thing missing is graphics driver, everything else (besides sound) is working
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2500078
Baytrail T100 grub won't boot kernel
paperWastage said:
1a) UEFI/BIOS support. looks like for the Asus T100, Asus only gave a 32-bit UEFI bootloader, so there are hacks to go around it. not sure about other devices like Dell Venue 8 Pro (I don't have that much money to buy so many devices)
1b) Secure Boot option to be disabled. If you can't disable Secure Boot, there are ways to get around it (some distros provide a signed UEFI shim that preloads before grub2, but you'll have to get that shim working with 32-bit bootloaders if you hit the problem above in 1a)
2) SoC support. Intel has submitted the Bay Trail SoC to the linux kernel. However, there are still some parts missing (eg open source video driver xf86-video-intel has it somewhat supported with bugs)
here is my WIP on getting ubuntu working on my Asus T100.... only major thing missing is graphics driver, everything else (besides sound) is working
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2500078
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Having a hell of a time getting ubuntu to get past grub.
Tried both Asus T100, and Dell Venue 8 Pro
Rufus (GPT for UEFI + FAT + 64 kb+ bootable disk using ISO Image)
Tried x86_64: ubuntu 13.04, 13.10, Fedora 20
All 6 Combinations, Boot into Grub, but grub throws the following error message every time, when booting the kernel:
"Can't Terminate EFI Services", and go back to grub.
Tried both boot loader binaries: - bootia32.ubuntu_13.04_x64.zip, and bootia32_normal_configfile.zip
From main thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46861952#post46861952
After that grub error, USB devices are all disabled.
Not sure how to debug further, seems like a grub EFI issue, but can't confirm.
Tried grub debug, using "set debug=all", and the error occurs right after the EFI map is displayed.
Please advise on how to proceed - how can this happen on both T100 and V8P?
M$ ruined baytrail by requiring 32 bit EFI, on a 64 bit system!
I could be wrong, but I thought I remembered seeing a 32 efi folder in Ubuntu GNOME 14.04. I'm not positive because I used the 64 bit installation on my HP Pavilion x2 2-in-1. It has the bay trail graphics. I stumbled upon this thread because I was looking for improved driver support. Right now the only thing not working on my installation (besides bluetooth) is display brightness control.
BayTrailSucks said:
"Can't Terminate EFI Services", and go back to grub.
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I saw this log from time to time when I've used binaries you've mentioned.
So I've recompiled grub myself from sources taken from: ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub
I've used version 2.00
To compile grub I've used commands:
./configure \
--with-platform=efi --target=i386 --disable-nls \
--disable-grub-emu-usb --disable-grub-emu-sdl --disable-grub-emu-pci --disable-grub-mkfont \
--disable-device-mapper --disable-libzfs --disable-werror
sed -i -e '/gets is a/d' grub-core/gnulib/stdio.in.h
make -j 2 MAKEINFO=true
make -j 2 install MAKEINFO=true
and then to prepare bootloader binary I've executed:
i386-grub-mkimage -o bootia32.efi -O i386-efi -p /boot/grub ntfs boot cat efi_gop efi_uga elf fat linux keylayouts \
memdisk minicmd ext2 extcmd part_bsd part_gpt search search_fs_file chain \
loadbios loadenv memrw mmap msdospart scsi loopback
For kernel tests I've used kernel 3.12 from kernel.org and 3.13.0-rc8 from repository: git://people.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm-intel
Kernel 3.12 booted fine when I've added 'video' parameter as was mentioned in paperWastage thread.
For kernel 3.13.0-rc8 I've to revert one commit, see more info in bug 71977 at bugs.freedesktop.org
After I've updated xf86-video-intel to 2.99.907 and libdrm to 2.4.52 I was able to run X server with acceleration:
# glxinfo | grep ren
direct rendering: Yes
GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_swap_control,
GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGI_make_current_read,
GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_swap_control,
GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGI_make_current_read,
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Bay Trail x86/MMX/SSE2
GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_AMD_draw_buffers_blend,
What about hardware accelerated video playback
What about hardware accelerated video playback?
vshalimo said:
What about hardware accelerated video playback?
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It works. I can use GPU accelerated decoding in vlc compiled with libva support.
-bash-4.2# vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 0.34.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /kanapi_packages/libva-master/lib/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_34
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 0.34 (libva 1.2.2.pre1)
vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver - 1.2.3.pre1
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
Battery status
Patch for kernel for battery status has been just added to bug 69011 in kernel bugzilla (I can't put link here)
and it works on ASUS T100TA:
cat /sys/class/power_supply/BATC/uevent
POWER_SUPPLY_NAME=BATC
POWER_SUPPLY_STATUS=Discharging
POWER_SUPPLY_PRESENT=1
POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY=Li-ion
POWER_SUPPLY_CYCLE_COUNT=8
POWER_SUPPLY_VOLTAGE_MIN_DESIGN=3750000
POWER_SUPPLY_VOLTAGE_NOW=4174000
POWER_SUPPLY_CURRENT_NOW=1172000
POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_FULL_DESIGN=8180000
POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_FULL=9595000
POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_NOW=9316000
POWER_SUPPLY_CAPACITY=97
POWER_SUPPLY_MODEL_NAME=SR Real Battery
POWER_SUPPLY_MANUFACTURER=Intel SR 1
POWER_SUPPLY_SERIAL_NUMBER=123456789
This thread is for native Linux development on Galaxy A8/A8+. This means no Halium here. It's also aimed at people who know how to compile their stuff, ect., so don't complain to me about no fancy zip installer.
I have made some fixes in our DECON framebuffer driver, ect that makes TTY, and Xorg, and anything that uses the framebuffer work! (Based on @prashantp01's Quantum Quack kernel because that's what I had at the time and it's a good kernel).
I have tested this using Arch Linux ARM (ALARM), and it boots just fine!
A postmarketOS tree for the regular A8 is in the way of being merged, and I need someone to try the A8+ version.
Please provide a photo of the phone running PostmarketOS with weston on A8+!
Prebuilt zip for A8+ and A8 with postmarketOS weston (not really useful, but good for screenshot) here:
A8: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cVamhYGmBrDVrzzcIVyCmhLHJIQ3u3Xq/view?usp=sharing
A8+: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xe9rFu4TRzxmM9yV4lINOHOHsEQ2TD0O/view?usp=sharing
This may also be useful for other 7885 and 7885 based (7884 variants, 7904) devices as well!
What currently works on Arch (and probably on any other native linux distro):
Booting (Arch Linux sometimes hangs on "Triggering uevents" for a few minutes, sometimes boots instantly)
Screen (inc. brightness and turning on/off (due to a hacky workaround in kernel, the screen may show a corrupted screen for a split second when turning on)
Framebuffer console (TTY)
Xorg (unaccelerated)
Touchscreen
Hardware buttons
Battery indicator (detects some other stuff as batteries/charging ports too ATM)
USB OTG (Mouse, keyboard, ect)
(After adding some configs)USB SSH, and web access from PC using USB
Basically anything using Xorg (LightDM, Xfce, GNOME, KDE Plasma, Firefox, Chromium, GIMP, VLC, ect ect ect)
Anything that can use framebuffer (weston's framebuffer backend)
NOTE: This is a guide assumes you know how to do some stuff. For some help you can also reference this
Rough instructions for Arch Linux (Using prebuilt boot.img):
Partition your SD card (using PC or something) so that your second partition will contain your rootfs (the boot.imgs provided use the 2nd SD card partition as root! Change in defconfig if you are building your kernel.)
Install the generic version of ARMv8 Arch Linux ARM to the second partition of your SD card.
Install additional packages by chrooting from Android, or using USB networking
(For dual-boot) back up boot.img
Install the correct boot.img.
To boot back into Android, restore your boot.img
Prebuilt Arch Linux boot.imgs
Source code
VDavid003 said:
This thread is for native Linux development on Galaxy A8/A8+. This means no Halium here. It's also aimed at people who know how to compile their stuff, ect., so don't complain to me about no fancy zip installer.
I have made some fixes in our DECON framebuffer driver, ect that makes TTY, and Xorg, and anything that uses the framebuffer work! (Based on @prashantp01's Quantum Quack kernel because that's what I had at the time and it's a good kernel).
I have tested this using Arch Linux ARM (ALARM), and it boots just fine! A postmarketOS port will follow soon!
This may also be useful for other 7885 and 7885 based (7884 variants, 7904) devices as well!
What currently works on Arch (and probably on any other native linux distro):
Booting (Arch Linux sometimes hangs on "Triggering uevents" for a few minutes, sometimes boots instantly)
Screen (inc. brightness and turning on/off (due to a hacky workaround in kernel, the screen may show a corrupted screen for a split second when turning on)
Framebuffer console (TTY)
Xorg (unaccelerated)
Touchscreen
Hardware buttons
Battery indicator (detects some other stuff as batteries/charging ports too ATM)
USB OTG (Mouse, keyboard, ect)
(After adding some configs)USB SSH, and web access from PC using USB
Basically anything using Xorg (LightDM, Xfce, GNOME, KDE Plasma, Firefox, Chromium, GIMP, VLC, ect ect ect)
Anything that can use framebuffer (weston's framebuffer backend)
NOTE: This is a guide assumes you know how to do some stuff. For some help you can also reference this
Rough instructions for Arch Linux (Using prebuilt boot.img):
Partition your SD card (using PC or something) so that your second partition will contain your rootfs (the boot.imgs provided use the 2nd SD card partition as root! Change in defconfig if you are building your kernel.)
Install the generic version of ARMv8 Arch Linux ARM to the second partition of your SD card.
Install additional packages by chrooting from Android, or using USB networking
(For dual-boot) back up boot.img
Install the correct boot.img.
To boot back into Android, restore your boot.img
Prebuilt Arch Linux boot.imgs
Source code
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Thanks david
VDavid003 said:
This thread is for native Linux development on Galaxy A8/A8+. This means no Halium here. It's also aimed at people who know how to compile their stuff, ect., so don't complain to me about no fancy zip installer.
I have made some fixes in our DECON framebuffer driver, ect that makes TTY, and Xorg, and anything that uses the framebuffer work! (Based on @prashantp01's Quantum Quack kernel because that's what I had at the time and it's a good kernel).
I have tested this using Arch Linux ARM (ALARM), and it boots just fine! A postmarketOS port will follow soon!
This may also be useful for other 7885 and 7885 based (7884 variants, 7904) devices as well!
What currently works on Arch (and probably on any other native linux distro):
Booting (Arch Linux sometimes hangs on "Triggering uevents" for a few minutes, sometimes boots instantly)
Screen (inc. brightness and turning on/off (due to a hacky workaround in kernel, the screen may show a corrupted screen for a split second when turning on)
Framebuffer console (TTY)
Xorg (unaccelerated)
Touchscreen
Hardware buttons
Battery indicator (detects some other stuff as batteries/charging ports too ATM)
USB OTG (Mouse, keyboard, ect)
(After adding some configs)USB SSH, and web access from PC using USB
Basically anything using Xorg (LightDM, Xfce, GNOME, KDE Plasma, Firefox, Chromium, GIMP, VLC, ect ect ect)
Anything that can use framebuffer (weston's framebuffer backend)
NOTE: This is a guide assumes you know how to do some stuff. For some help you can also reference this
Rough instructions for Arch Linux (Using prebuilt boot.img):
Partition your SD card (using PC or something) so that your second partition will contain your rootfs (the boot.imgs provided use the 2nd SD card partition as root! Change in defconfig if you are building your kernel.)
Install the generic version of ARMv8 Arch Linux ARM to the second partition of your SD card.
Install additional packages by chrooting from Android, or using USB networking
(For dual-boot) back up boot.img
Install the correct boot.img.
To boot back into Android, restore your boot.img
Prebuilt Arch Linux boot.imgs
Source code
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So one can boot Armbian on A8+ as we do with Android box? Where is dtb for this?
p5uresh said:
So one can boot Armbian on A8+ as we do with Android box? Where is dtb for this?
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Yes you could probably boot it. The dtb is inside the boot.img
Try installing it to an sd card, chrooting into it from android, generating an initramfs, then replacing the initramfs in the boot.img with the one you generated. (Maybe it could even work without that, wiht arch's initramfs?)
VDavid003 said:
Yes you could probably boot it. The dtb is inside the boot.img
Try installing it to an sd card, chrooting into it from android, generating an initramfs, then replacing the initramfs in the boot.img with the one you generated. (Maybe it could even work without that, wiht arch's initramfs?)
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OK
Thanks.
postmarketOS tree on the way! Please someone send photo of A8+ running it! Info in first post!
this is absolutely amazing, thank you for the work
im very happy with gentoo linux on my phone haha
saraphiem said:
this is absolutely amazing, thank you for the work
im very happy with gentoo linux on my phone haha
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You got gentoo to boot? How did the drivers and compatability work out? I am asking this quite seriously as I do want to port it to my own device in the future.
Please update download links
Fandroid Tech said:
You got gentoo to boot? How did the drivers and compatability work out? I am asking this quite seriously as I do want to port it to my own device in the future.
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well, it boots, tty works as expected with a phsyical keyboard lmao
the power button interestingly triggers a reboot, openrc & sysvinit goes through the "proper" shutdown process
i wasn't able to get much more than that working, unfortunately :c
saraphiem said:
well, it boots, tty works as expected with a phsyical keyboard lmao
the power button interestingly triggers a reboot, openrc & sysvinit goes through the "proper" shutdown process
i wasn't able to get much more than that working, unfortunately :c
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I tried running it in a chroot, running gentoo on an 10 year old armhf cpu was hell in itself. The bigger problem was trying to update an old system. The closest anybody has gotten to gentoo mobile is sharkbait os, but that was just a chroot I think.
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I tried running it in a chroot, running gentoo on an 10 year old armhf cpu was hell in itself. The bigger problem was trying to update an old system. The closest anybody has gotten to gentoo mobile is sharkbait os, but that was just a chroot I think.
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haha sure does take a while to compile things
Hey guys,
Been working on a personal project, and came to this question, which also happens to be the first Im having to post about online..
Is it even possible to boot the kernel in EL2 mode with the sdm845 SoC ?
My end goal here being running qemu - which I'm already are - under KVM ( The tough part )
I Already tried enabling the necessary options in the kernel build, flashing them, with no success.
What I've been reading around is that since the system uses the TrustZone environment, this may not be possible.
[Kernel] Stock Android Pie kernel with KVM
I have been trying for some time now to enable KVM on the Pixel XL, by compiling the stock Google kernel and adding the KVM switches to "marlin_defconfig". Unfortunately, while the kernel with KVM compiles properly and could be flashed, /dev/kvm...
forum.xda-developers.com
On the other hand, under the chipset specifications I've been seen that only EL3 is really protected by the security implementations.
Documentation – Arm Developer
developer.arm.com
I know some exynos chipsets support booting in EL2 out of the box, but I see not much development for Qualcomm based ones.
ARM KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) enabled Kernel for Samsung Galaxy S8
Hi. Can someone that compiles kernels for this phone compile one with KVM enabled and make it available to download? It should not be too hard. This would really make these machines appealing if you could spin up VMs on them especially...
forum.xda-developers.com
KVM
Limbo is a QEMU-based emulator for Android. It currently supports x86, ARM, PowerPC, and Sparc emulation for Intel x86 and ARM android devices. See wiki https://virtualmachinery.weebly.com for APK...
github.com
So, summing up, is it possible, and if so through what actions, to boot a kernel under LE2 mode on a snapdragon processor?
Also, side note, I'm willing to brick my device, if its worth the try, and adds to any progress of future development.
Edit1: Added links- sources
Cheers!
Sadly, with SDM845 it is impossible to enable KVM in android Linux kernels. As the kernel is booted under EL1 by the firmware. But with this firmware https://github.com/msm8916-mainline/qhypstub, msm8916/msm8935 can.
Is there a way to enable KVM for SM8450 (Snapdragon 8 gen 1) ? I would like to use Qemu on Galaxy Tab S8
linlin3309 said:
Sadly, with SDM845 it is impossible to enable KVM in android Linux kernels. As the kernel is booted under EL1 by the firmware. But with this firmware https://github.com/msm8916-mainline/qhypstub, msm8916/msm8935 can.
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How i check my device booting with EL1 or EL2 ?
Via `dmesg` ?
Hi,
I was just wondering if there is any forum specific for xFSTK?
Lots of Android devices have an Intel processor and considering the hugh number of different types of Intel processors it might be worth to have a forum specific for xFSTK, whatever the target processor in the device and whatever the platform xFSTK is running on (Win PC, Linux, Mac).
I'm also asking this because I have a post about xFSTK (see link) but, considering the post is related to an old device, it will probably not get any response while the error(s) in the xFSTK log may also appear with other devices and Intel processors.
Thanks in advance
link:
Intel Atom Z3560 (Moorefield) - Not Flashing Correctly
Hi, I got an old Asus Android S 8.0 Z580CA tablet with above mentioned processor. The bootloader is bricked, so I got a black screen all the time. However, xFSTK downloader running on my Win7 PC seems to communicate with the tablet over USB...
forum.xda-developers.com
Good question. I have found your message because I have the same in mind. What I'm interested in where is the latest and greatest xFSTK is located. So far I found this link: https://github.com/edison-fw/xFSTK/. I don't know if this one is anyhow diverged from the windows versions.
I'm wondering if i can installl windows or linux on the phone using xfstk?