htc-evita: New device

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By Simon Utter on 2019-01-25T11:03:15

By mirh on 2019-01-25T12:59:50

Hi.

I try to port to htc-ville. Kernel is compiled correctly and also starting but always rebooting with RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. The same ramdisk is booting with twrp/cm/los kernel without problems.

Did you experience similar problems and have maybe the solution?

By escoand on 2019-01-25T13:26:11

Hi @escoand I had no issues what so ever building and compiling the kernel, then booting it.

I got the offsets from the newest TWRP image when I kicked of pmbootstrap init the first time. I just followed the kernel configuration page in the wiki and also disabled CONFIG_MSM_KGSL, and added the device package mdss-fb-init-hack to the APKBUILD file.

Never had an issue with ramdisk errors, sorry.

By Simon Utter on 2019-01-26T00:09:02

Yes man, now booting without problems. Don't know what the problem was with the ramdisk. Anyway, CONFIG_MSM_KGSL seems to be needed, but not mdss-fb-init-hack. Thanks...

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By Simon Utter on 2019-01-26T23:55:02

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By Simon Utter on 2019-01-26T23:59:58

I wonder if you couldn't actually share the kernel?

It seems a waste to have two packages pointing at the same code.

By mirh on 2019-01-27T00:33:04

I'm not sure if I got you right. Is !177 (merged) what you want from me?

By escoand on 2019-01-27T07:19:27

@PureTryOut Just giving this a bump up, think it's ready to be merged :) CI finishes successful and wiki has been updated!

By Simon Utter on 2019-01-28T06:33:13

I do agree with @mirh, can't the same kernel package be used for this device (htc-evita) and the htc-ville? I guess they need some other kernel options, but those could probably be enabled as modules right?

By Bart Ribbers on 2019-01-28T11:39:17

Beyond that htc-evita uses 3.4.72 and htc-ville uses 3.4.110 a diff of the kernel configs shows over 150 differences. Is this in your eyes the same kernel?

By escoand on 2019-01-28T12:22:13

@escoand The above comments made me a bit unsure, so had to check and I haven't used the same commit number as you (mistake from my side). I'll try building your linux-htc-ville package and check if it boots on my device. If all well we can give it a common name and package as other have suggested?

By Simon Utter on 2019-01-28T12:33:09

LineageOS and Cyanogen used HTC S4 as common repo for HTC One S/One XL/EVO 4G LTE/DROID Incredible 4G LTE.

By escoand on 2019-01-28T13:31:54

In the associated kernel repo I can only find the config file for ville: https://github.com/LineageOS/android_kernel_htc_msm8960/tree/cm-12.1/arch/arm/configs

I used the cm-12.1 branch as this was the last official release for htc-ville.

By escoand on 2019-01-28T13:37:53

Ok, I've found the used defconfig files in BoardConfig.mk:

htc-evita	elite_defconfig
htc-jewel	jet_defconfig
htc-fireball	fighter_defconfig
htc-ville	ville_defconfig

So at the end they use the same source code but a different defconfig. And they are actually also slightly different.

By escoand on 2019-01-28T13:51:16

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By Oliver Smith on 2019-01-28T20:09:12

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By Oliver Smith on 2019-01-28T20:10:23

Great work @sir_si, thanks for the port!

By Oliver Smith on 2019-01-28T20:10:52

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By Oliver Smith on 2019-01-28T20:10:56

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By Oliver Smith on 2019-01-28T20:11:01

So at the end they use the same source code but a different defconfig. And they are actually also slightly different.

I'd go with a different kernel package then. If you want to optimize it a bit, you could base it off the same source tarball, so people building both kernels (i.e. binary package repository) may only need to download it once.

Real unifying can be done with kernels based on mainline.

By Oliver Smith on 2019-01-28T20:12:32

mentioned in commit wiki@893ee463

By postmarketOS Wiki bot on 2019-01-28T20:42:44

mentioned in commit c6e5ec1d

By Simon Utter on 2019-02-11T21:36:40

mentioned in commit 5765ace2

By Simon Utter on 2019-02-14T19:42:54

mentioned in issue #340 (closed)

By Ghost User on 2019-12-08T20:17:04

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