[android-porting] Re: How to provide root access to Android Application

2012-04-20 Thread Chris Stratton
On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 10:57:11 AM UTC-4, Glenn Kasten wrote: > > One solution I've seen for this kind of problem is to have a separate > 'factory' filesystem > which is mounted read/write during factory provisioning, but then is > mounted read-only > during normal operation. This is also

[android-porting] Re: How to provide root access to Android Application

2012-04-19 Thread Glenn Kasten
Sorry, creating Linux filesystems are not my area of expertise. I suggest asking about this on either android-kernel group, or your question might not be specific to Android so you could do a web search for "Linux filesystems". Once you have a filesystem in place, you'll need to mount it, typicall

Re: [android-porting] Re: How to provide root access to Android Application

2012-04-18 Thread Garimella Srinivasu
Hi gkasten, Thanks you for your information.. could you brief about your solution? how can i create factory file system? how can i provide access to android application? Thanks & Regards Garimella Srinivasu On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Glenn Kasten wrote: > One solution I've seen for this

[android-porting] Re: How to provide root access to Android Application

2012-04-17 Thread Glenn Kasten
One solution I've seen for this kind of problem is to have a separate 'factory' filesystem which is mounted read/write during factory provisioning, but then is mounted read-only during normal operation. This is also a good place to store information such as camera calibration data. On Apr 16, 9:

Re: [android-porting] Re: How to provide root access to Android Application

2012-04-16 Thread Garimella Srinivasu
Hi gsksten, Thank you for your reply.. My requirement as below.. At the time of verry first boot, factory people should select branding of my device(we are supporting multiple types of branding) and based on this selection second time onwords device will boot with respective Brands(different Bra

[android-porting] Re: How to provide root access to Android Application

2012-04-14 Thread Glenn Kasten
The root file system / is typically a small read-only RAM filesystem which is just used as a place to mount the other filesystems such as / system and /data, to hold special filesystems like /proc and /sys, and to store the init executable and startup scripts such as init.rc. It's not intended or s