ARM/Hummingbird

Revision as of 09:25, 10 January 2011

Nexus S (Samsung Hummingbird + SGX 540)

So, I have a barebones version of MeeGo (barely) running on the Nexus S. I can't really do much with it on my own, but I'm posting the info here so you can build it and try it for yourself.

What works:

• ADB root shell
• X11 & UI apps

What doesn't work currently:

• Touchscreen
• Super-AMOLED brightness control (screen looks near pitch black)
• WiFi
• Anything else :-P

If you've never built a MeeGo rootfs before, it's relatively straightforward, and all the binaries are precompiled for you (but it's definitely for developers only).

I have my boot.img (kernel + ramdisk) and a MeeGo kickstart file at http://blog.steventroughtonsmith.com/2011/01/nexus-s-meego.html; you can use fastboot to boot the image, or flash it to the recovery partition to dual boot. The actual MeeGo rootfs is run from a rootfs.ext2 file you can drop onto the Nexus S using Mass Storage mode - no need for messy flashing or the like, you can thank me later).

There's not much else I can do on my own right now, so if you want to see anything become of this do get involved!

My kernel is Samsung stock:

• git://android.git.kernel.org/kernel/samsung.git
• make herring_defconfig

The only change was modifying the .config file to turn on CONFIG_VT (needed for X11, unless we recompile X11 without VT support).

Go nuts!