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[Abhishek Agarwal <abhishek.agarwal16@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dmitrijs,

My development board is having SoC "Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064".

Android is running over this and I am also having source code of this
with *kernel
3.4.0. *Fetched the Android source from: git://
codeaurora.org/platform/manifest.git

Can't I use the same source code (Fastboot and kernel from Android source)
to build *Ubuntu images* (boot.img, system.img, recovery.img as in Android
reference) and use these images.

*These new Ubuntu images should have the GUI (X Window system) and same
kernel as 3.4.0*

I want to do this activity so that my board can be used for the Embedded
applications with Ubuntu as OS

I *don't have bootloader* for this board, so I will not be able to use the
desktop like Ubuntu.
*
*
Please help me in doing this. I am lost in this world.
Thanks in advance.

Regards,
-Abhishek


On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 8 October 2013 11:36, Abhishek Agarwal <abhishek.agarwal16@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am new to porting code.
> >
> > I have Android source code for my project.
> > I want to port Ubuntu on this board, replacing Android.
> >
> > After porting my board should be running Ubuntu completely as my desktop
> is running.
> >
> > Can someone please help me in doing this.
>
> If you simply want to run Ubuntu, then look into Ubuntu Core:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Core
>
> You are expected to provide your own bootloader & kernel, and then use
> those to boot Ubuntu Core rootfs.
> This should get you a minimal console system.
>
> Ubuntu Touch, is more than Ubuntu Core as it adds additional
> requirements on the kernel (app armor & namespace support compiled),
> but has more packages available in the rootfs.
>
> In the past (during quantal cycle) we had ubuntu-desktop images for
> nexus7 tablet, which did simply boot into ubuntu-desktop & running X.
> So you might want to look into those images:
> http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/releases/13.04/release/
>
> There are plenty of "androidy" utilities available in the archive like
> abootimg, cross-toolchains and etc which you might find useful.
>
> Ubuntu phone UI, is more complex to port, as there are more kernel
> requirements (namespace support, apparmor, etc). And one needs to boot
> minimal android under lxc container to get access to surfaceflinger
> etc. But that will _not_ give you "Ubuntu Desktop".
>
> Regards,
>
> Dmitrijs.
>