Halium

13 Feb 2024 16:09

yes, you can tweak the mounts if you want to do something custom

Halium

13 Feb 2024 16:06

Ok, perfect, that was exactly what I was looking for

Halium

13 Feb 2024 16:05

My question is more around why system.img is an image file under /DATA rather than flashed directly to /SYSTEM (there may be a very good reason for this. I'm a fairly experience dev, but not so much with Android)

Halium

13 Feb 2024 16:04

No, I get that, and I have no problem....

Halium

13 Feb 2024 16:04

My end goal is not to use this as a phone, but a minimal linux distro (currently aiming for a kind of pseudo Sonos plugged into a dumb hifi)

Halium

13 Feb 2024 16:03

I'm not looking for UT

Halium

13 Feb 2024 16:02

I have the reference rootfs working, and I am now looking to build up from there. Just seeing if there are any optimizations I can implement at this stage prior to building the rootfs for distros I may want to use

Halium

13 Feb 2024 01:30

Hello all. Quick question... I'm currently working on a build system to get some new life out of my old phone. Things are going well for the most part, but I have one question... Is there a good reason not to flash the system.img straight onto the System partition and then mount that from the rootfs (on the Data partition)? I accept this would require initramfs changes. I'm just looking to minimize space usage, and whilst system.img is relatively small, every little counts

Halium

11 Feb 2024 17:45

for 9+ you don't "build halium" but use a prebuilt generic system image with the patches, how you use it and build in general depends entirely on what distribution you're looking to port

Halium

11 Feb 2024 06:25

Hey there! I could not explain with words about how new I am to all of this, but I’ve been trying to cram Linux into an old Xiaomi Mi 8 Lite I have and I’ve been pointed towards here.

Halium

08 Feb 2024 13:33

https://gitlab.com/ubports/porting/community-ports/android10/xiaomi-redmi-9/xiaomi-lancelot already done as well, also better discuss this on t.me/ubports_porting since the porting methods for android 9+ devices are completely different depending on OS

Halium

08 Feb 2024 11:41

well that definitely won't work (and isn't even written in the very old docs). either way to give proper instructions @shas45558 needs to specify what device and which OS they're trying to port

Halium

08 Feb 2024 11:04

you trying to build for OnePlus One? there is already a port ongoing including to Halium 9

Halium

05 Feb 2024 18:41

basically porting Halium itself to device is obsolete, but the project remains as a middleware component for distro developers

Halium

05 Feb 2024 18:40

no, that's pretty old information

Halium

13 Feb 2024 16:07

As system is significantly smaller than data (4GB vs 25GB) I just wanted to make sure that offloading anything onto that partition would not have any unforseen issues. It would appear not, so I will carry on down this path

Halium

13 Feb 2024 16:05

like UT tends to store the whole rootfs under /system

Halium

13 Feb 2024 16:05

regarding your first question, one reason system.img is not normally flashed to real partition is because it may be used for something else

Halium

13 Feb 2024 16:04

if you want to do something else (as in not an existing distro that uses Halium), you'd be probably on your own

Halium

13 Feb 2024 16:03

I will be leaning on the very good UT port (that I have already played with)

Halium

13 Feb 2024 16:03

Galaxy S7 has UT port on much newer base

Halium

13 Feb 2024 16:01

If it makes any difference, I am developing for a Samsung Galaxy S7, currently working with Halium-7.1 (starting with older as kernel/phone is old, then will look to update when all working). End goal is to be able to setup fairly minimal rootfs of various distributions to enable the phone to be able to perform various server related tasks

Halium

11 Feb 2024 17:45

same response as above

Halium

11 Feb 2024 17:02

Hello I am currently trying to build halium for one of my devices and I've been looking through the docs and the only tutorial there is is for halium 7 but I want halium 12

Halium

10 Feb 2024 10:45

FAILED: ninja: unknown target 'hybris-boot

How to solve it

Halium

08 Feb 2024 13:31

Tnx i wanna try for redmi 9 lancelot..ubuntu touch

Halium

08 Feb 2024 11:38

iirc bacon is a build target in lineage that makes a flashable zip, he's probably thinking about that, not the OnePlus One's codename

Halium

08 Feb 2024 06:34

Can i build halium
With
make bacon

Halium

05 Feb 2024 18:40

for Treble devices, go to your distro-specific documentation

Halium

04 Feb 2024 03:49

You have to port it yourself if you want it