actually the question you is going to get answers from people who have not actually been in the shop ~ not only that it is also an ideal item to post as a "central issue" that any effort of this nature needs to keep a good eye on as I was looking at a few issues last night and I can tell you for a fact that is going to vary some from one vendor to another - some will do well and actually work to book and write a good bootloader = as for your next question it's like one person told me who held an MBA and actually got a job using it:
Companies have to do exactly what you are asking us, and there is no more "easy way" for them than there is for us. Money is spent ( maybe ) time is spent ( for sure ) and results are ( ? ) maybe you get good, maybe have to scratch again. They have to do the same thing ~ for your idea you just have to try it - if you do not have a crash- box to try it on then its luck-o-matic is your only hope. On Nov 3, 10:51 am, Ronnyek <wwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > From what I have seen ( I could be wrong about thiss..) it would seem > that the typical os update functionality is something that is provided > by a boot loader. (drop an os upgrade on root of sd card, reboot into > special mode, and perform the upgrade). > > Are companies building their own bootloaders, or are there existing > linux bootloaders that would let me easily mount sdcard, extract > contents of a archive to different locations etc? > > I appreciate any feedback on the subject... just trying to streamline > this for the future. -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
