deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> writes: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Hi all. >> >> I'm interested in the problem of running Debian on an Android device and I >> visited: >> >> https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile >> >> . I'm trying to follow the tutorial: >> >> http://whiteboard.ping.se/Android/Debian >> >> , but it seems to be quite hard. I'm stuck where the tutorial says: >> >> # mkbootimg --base 0x00200000 --kernel zImage --ramdisk initramfs.cpio.gz >> # -o my-boot.img >> >> , as I don't know where the file zImage is on my Android device nor the >> base >> address (above 0x00200000). I got some help from the debian-mobile >> mailing list but it was not such that I managed to solve my problem. >> >> I think it's important to remark that the above tutorial, as far as I >> understand, is not about running Debian within the costraints or at the >> top of >> Android system, as many other kind of solutions do, but instead natively. >> It compiles the Android kernel and replace - it seems - the original with >> the modified one. >> >> Anyone out there who's interested as well in the matter and has already >> experienced it? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Rodolfo > > There is one device running on native (or almost native debian). The device > is called Nokia N9. > "MeeGo was a Linux distribution hosted by the Linux Foundation, using source > code from the operating systems Moblin (produced by Intel) and Maemo > (produced by Nokia)." [1] > Unfortunately discontinued. > The problem with your undertaking is (woud be) support for hardware aka > drivers. You can look at jolla [2], sailfish [3]. > > Honestly I admire people that have time to waste!
Why do you say `waste of time'? I won't say you're wrong, just see what you mean... Rodolfo
