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Originally Posted by kaneorotar
Well, thanks for pointing it out for me. As you can see I do have little to almost no knowledge about the Android/Linux booting process.
I knew that KT2 should also have u-boot but I thought maybe building the u-boot our own could enable the fastboot capability and allow it to magically boot into Android.
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We do have a custom copy of u-boot posted for the series 5 devices that includes fastboot.
But it **is not** modified to do 'read-back & verify' what it writes to flash, not is it modified to flash a file larger than available ram.
For the purposes it was posted for, those features where not needed.
Keep in mind that the series 5 devices have two (2) u-boot setups installed normally -
The tiny one, that runs in the SoC internal ram -
The large one (bist), the runs in the external ram.
You aren't automagically going to run Android.
You need to build an **ANDROID** kernel that includes the **AMAZON** hardware drivers.
**NOT** a small project (you will find several threads here where people have started to make that cross-breed kernel).
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Originally Posted by kaneorotar
I guess it's time for me to stop picking up random article from a simple Google search and posting it here. This is clearly not a simple problem, otherwise people would have solved it long time ago.
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We have addressed the problem here, numerous times.
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Originally Posted by kaneorotar
P.S. You seem to doubt the authenticity of this 'hack', but the guy who did it has been selling his service online for a few months. Quite a few people sent their Kindle to him and got them back with Android running. There are videos and pictures so I tend to believe it is true.
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I don't doubt that someone did it.
I just want to see them release the sources as required by the license.
The people at this site do not support Dorkan, because they abuse the terms of the Open Source, software licenses.
You can't expect the people here to support an un-released version of the Open Source kernel for Android nor the Open Source Android itself.
Everything you find here (done by our members, not just passers-by) is Open Source and the sources are published in public repositories.
When the Chinese learn to do the same, we might even help them.
But the fact is, there is very little experience in running an Open Source project among the Chinese.
So twobob and I set up a site for the purpose of collaborating with a Chinese manufacturer.
We would run the site and be technical advisors (for free) until the first completed project was marketed, and then turn operations over to the (then trained) Chinese manufacturer.
Part way through, the manufacturer bailed out.
But the site is still there and if this person who is abusing Open Source for profit wants to change their ways - the site is available:
https://gunshi.org