Re: Nexus 7

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On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 03:23:41PM +0100, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> On 07/03/2012 03:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >
> >I know we don't support tablets.  That's been pretty comprehensively
> >covered on the list already, eg:
> >
> >https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/arm/2012-April/003107.html
> >
> >But!  Suddenly a tablet appears which is both much cheaper and (in
> >some respects) far more powerful than the Trim Slices and BeagleBoards
> >that we do support.
> >
> >Is it possible to support Tegra2/3 tablets, at least in a headless
> >configuration until there are graphics drivers?
> 
> Is there any particular reason why you cannot do something like:
> 1) root the device
> 2) dump the rootfs in a subdirectory
> 3) chroot /sbin/init
> ?
> 
> Assuming you enabled sshd, you should at that point be able to ssh
> into the tablet. Or is there something in the Android kernel patches
> that stops this approach?

As Peter said, I didn't know the Android kernel was sufficiently
compatible.  I'll give it a go later on my Galaxy Tab.

Rich.

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