Preliminary Support For TouchPad Dual Booting for Android

This is my progress on porting Android to the TouchPad. This is using my own kernel builds, edited versions of the great Pre bootr project, a mix of dumps, and a preliminary GingerBread AOSP port. This only allows me to hook into the boot loader before the kernel and fs are mounted, so I can select the OS I want. At the current time, trying to mount the Android OS System and RamDisk seems to fail. When I get more time, I'll trudge forward, but God, do I love this kind of stuff. :)

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• HP
• Palm
• TouchPad
• Android
• Kernel
• WebOS
• Hack
• GingerBread

[TheLerce]

I've been making an effort to follow the different...."teams" (for lack of a better word) and their progress. I must say I'm rooting for you!

Good luck!

[Bsmith7018]

@TheLerce Aww, that's really nice of you lol. I'm not really a "team," just some guy who really likes to get his hands dirty in Java and kernels :D I wish I had more time to work on this though, but my job, other projects and a social life prevent me from working on this as much as I'd like. Oh, and sleep. I hate sleep.

[smitty7002]

are you filming this with a gameboy :o

[samuofm]

WebOS is so great, if i'm gonna play with anything else (android) its going to have to be in a dual boot setup.

[Actionj16]

I have 2.3 gingerbread on my Droid Eris and although it would be cool on a bigger screen its not honeycomb (made for a tablet) i still want to keep WebOS. Nice work i hope the CM7 gets this going with their project!

[TheMadnish]

Good luck ! Certainly looking forward !

[m4yh3m121]

big flag

[JoelRemix]

I also believe dual booting is the way to go for touchpads. WebOS is still cool.

[mike10dude]

cool I have been hoping for a dual boot solution

because after messing around with webOs I actually kind of like it

[bynumezshop]

Good Job everyone is waiting for ANDROID.

[Milkytron]

keep up the good work