Hello everyone, i’m new of LibreElect and I would like to ask you what is the principle behind booting up LibreElect from a SD card without change the original firmware? Could you please address me in the right direction? Where are stored the set of files that are doing this magic so I can study them? Also, do I need to check the bootloader documentations or ufficial Android docs? Thanks in advance for any reply
LibreElec way of working
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Acontini -
December 30, 2017 at 12:04 PM -
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1. It is Libreelec not Libreelect.
2. The source for Libreelec official is found here: GitHub - LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv: Just enough OS for KODI
3. Bootloading varies between architectures, what architecture are you interested in? They are listed here LibreELEC.tv/projects at master · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub but there are many other unofficial projects.
4. Libreelec is not based on android. It is Linux.
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- Official Post
WebHome < U-Boot < DENX <= anything capable of using Android and LE will be using u-boot.
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Sorry for the spelling mistake.. my question was more specific on which folder do I have to look at for the firmware code and where it changes the code to boot from a sd card. If you can please point me in the right direction it will be great.
I have an amlogic mxq box bit I would like to port some part of the code on another Android device to run Linux on it.
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That is very device specific.
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- Official Post
You can keep asking, but no friendly guide for hardware porting exists, and there are no plans to create one. There is an extensive library of "prior art" in our GitHub repo. If you have the skills for the task, or the aptitude to learn them, everything you need is there.
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Thanks for the answers, they are really useful. I can also see newbie like me have issues in having a working toolchain set up quickly. Any suggestions?
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Our build-system compiles its own toolchain.