On Sunday 25 June 2017 at 22:23:24, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 09:23:10PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > > On 22.06.2017 19:53, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > I manage to get a root accout on my phone. But even root only gets > > > selective access to parts of the file system. And hope you're lucky > > > when you try to guess the names of the its of file system you are > > > allowed to access. Google seems to have found ways to geld root. > > > > By the way: I've already thought of some "GnuDroid" project (and did > > a few experiments), briging the app stuff into GNU world (might even > > be useful for small desktop apps) and just running a minimal GNU/Linux > > w/ GNUdroid on the phone. > > > > Anyone here working on something similar ? > > The big question is whether Android still requires a custom Linux > kernel. I know years ago it did, and the first batch of changes Google > proposed weren't admitted into the Linux kernel. I heard that they > modified their proposal, and that subsequently they did get changes into > the official kernel. Whether it now has *everything* Android needs? I > don't know. > > Google "Android on Linux" and you'll probably find a few relevant links.
I suspect the good people at http://www.android-x86.org would know about this - they (re)build kernels for Android (to run on x86 hardware) all the time. Antony. -- The truth is rarely pure, and never simple. - Oscar Wilde Please reply to the list; please *don't* CC me. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
