SD write support on the Android port to the Vogue
Today, Martin Johnson released something I’m been waiting a long time for in his progress of porting Android to the Vogue — SD controller support!
I haven’t tested this yet, I’ll be playing with it tonight when I get off work.
Here’s the notes from Martin:
The SD driver now works, this means you don’t have to run everything from an initrd and your settings will be saved across reboots. It also means that the [HTC] titan should boot (though I haven’t tried it and the keyboard won’t work), titan owners let me know. To use the new version, download the android.zip file below. In it are 6 files, put system.img(128M) and data.img(128M) onto the sd card in your phone (the “\Storage Card” folder), put zImage, default.txt, haret-0.5.1.exe and initrd.gz anywhere you like and then run haret. The data.img file holds your settings and applications, it’s just an ext3 filesystem so on a linux box you can mount it to add applications and import contacts etc..
Here’s the link to his homepage:
http://it029000.massey.ac.nz/vogue/
Man, I can hardly wait to play with this tonight.
**UPDATE**: Doesn’t seem to work with my 4GB SDHC card, init dies and loads a shell. I saw a mention of sdhc it in the driver messages though. Works fine with my 1GB card.
**UPDATE**: Martin updated his kernel driver to be 4 times faster, and included sdhc support.
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