Kitkat on Radxa Rock

[linuxium]

Fancy Android Kitkat and Linux Trusty Tahr Ubuntu/Xubuntu using a kernel compiled from Kitkat source?

Anyone wanting to try my leading edge full Kitkat taster experience can flash the 'update.img' (do an 'lf' then 'ef' then 'uf') after uncompressing from https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B99...WMxTGRKXzB6M2s to their Radxa Rock and 'dd' after uncompressing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B99...HFBZER1a21DLUk to an SD card or USB as the RFS. The software includes my updated Linuxium bootloader software for dual-booting, the Android 4.4.2 preview firmware released by Radxa and a Linux kernel I built from the Radxa's Rockchip Kitkat SDK kernel with the permission of Tom Cubie. Thanks to the Radxa team for their support.

I recommend you first boot Linux and 'sudo su -', 'passwd root', 'resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0' before setting up ethernet and then 'ntpdate au.pool.ntp.org'. You can either get flash working or 'aptitude install browser-plugin-gnash' for limited youtube support. As Google Apps are not installed on Android by default you can 'cd /root/android', 'mkdir gapps', 'cd gapps', 'unzip ../gapps-kk-20140105-signed.zip', 'mount /dev/mtdblock9 /mnt', 'resize2fs /dev/mtdblock9', 'cp -a system/* /mnt' and 'umount /mnt'.

When booting Linux select Xubuntu as Ubuntu with Unity fails to load. This is seemingly now a known problem as it is similar on the Odroid U3. The RFS includes both ubuntu-desktop and xubuntu-desktop as well as working Mali 3D support but does not include wifi at this stage.

[d33]

Excellent stuff. Well Done to you and Tom.

[knawnd]

Is the provided linux kernel and OS image capable of doing VPU decoding?

[linuxium]

Is the provided linux kernel and OS image capable of doing VPU decoding?

VPU is still WIP.

[taki-arm]

Fancy Android Kitkat and Linux Trusty Tahr Ubuntu/Xubuntu using a kernel compiled from Kitkat source? .

hi linuxium , Can you share your kernel config.

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[cappybob]

Linuxium,

Nice work again as always. Loaded and worked exactly as documented. Will probably reload again after I purchase a SSD. Right now working with OMA's new Radxa release.

tonikasch is working on vpu support and has a Wiki http://linux-rockchip.info/mw/index.php?title=Main_Page under video acceleration.

Thanks

[knawnd]

Fancy Android Kitkat and Linux Trusty Tahr Ubuntu/Xubuntu using a kernel compiled from Kitkat source?

Anyone wanting to try my leading edge full Kitkat taster experience can flash the 'update.img' (do an 'lf' then 'ef' then 'uf') after uncompressing from https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B99...WMxTGRKXzB6M2s to their Radxa Rock and 'dd' after uncompressing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B99...HFBZER1a21DLUk to an SD card or USB as the RFS. The software includes my updated Linuxium bootloader software for dual-booting, the Android 4.4.2 preview firmware released by Radxa and a Linux kernel I built from the Radxa's Rockchip Kitkat SDK kernel with the permission of Tom Cubie. Thanks to the Radxa team for their support.

I recommend you first boot Linux and 'sudo su -', 'passwd root', 'resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0' before setting up ethernet and then 'ntpdate au.pool.ntp.org'. You can either get flash working or 'aptitude install browser-plugin-gnash' for limited youtube support. As Google Apps are not installed on Android by default you can 'cd /root/android', 'mkdir gapps', 'cd gapps', 'unzip ../gapps-kk-20140105-signed.zip', 'mount /dev/mtdblock9 /mnt', 'resize2fs /dev/mtdblock9', 'cp -a system/* /mnt' and 'umount /mnt'.

When booting Linux select Xubuntu as Ubuntu with Unity fails to load. This is seemingly now a known problem as it is similar on the Odroid U3. The RFS includes both ubuntu-desktop and xubuntu-desktop as well as working Mali 3D support but does not include wifi at this stage.

Ian, do you have the same pack for Minix Neo x7? Or mentioned above pack for Radxa Rock should work on Minix Neo x7 since they are both based on the same SoC? In particular I am interested in your bootloader, linux recovery kernel with Mali 3D support and Ubuntu 14.04 RFS on SD card.

[linuxium]

hi linuxium , Can you share your kernel config.

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Config is included with the source on github.

[linuxium]

Ian, do you have the same pack for Minix Neo x7? Or mentioned above pack for Radxa Rock should work on Minix Neo x7 since they are both based on the same SoC? In particular I am interested in your bootloader, linux recovery kernel with Mali 3D support and Ubuntu 14.04 RFS on SD card.

I haven't done one for the Minix Neo X7 since they haven't released a Kitkat Android and they were quite vocal about their position on Kitkat (see https://www.facebook.com/minixtech/p...stream_ref=10#).