Thread: [Fremantle] Android inside chroot
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reinob is offline reinob
2014-03-19 , 11:39
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#5
Originally Posted by lexik View Post
Well, as we are not trying to "run" Android itself, just chroot inside him, so it will look like Android for it's apps & services, is some kernel-work really needed?
Well, look at it this way: why does Android use a non-Linux kernel? If it wasn't really necessary, why do they do it?

(hint: power management in Android is so FUBAR that they actually need this kernel "tweaks").

In easy-debian, the Maemo kernel is still used & so is in chrooted-BackTrack etc. Also thp's procedure isn't saying anything about kernel-moding.
Well thank $DEITY Maemo is, contrary to Android, still good-old Linux. It may not be upstream, but Maemo runs on Linux (as in "kernel") and Linux (as in "distribution") runs on Maemo-kernel.

Android is not a Linux distribution.

Is Dalvik somehow connected to specific features of Android kernel?
I don't know (nor do I care, just I don't care for crippling a phone with Android).

But if you're initiating this project, perhaps you should investigate this
 

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