Porting Replicant to Android 9

Status

The Galaxy SIII 4G (i9305) boots (with graphics hacks) under AOSP9, without having to import nonfree libraries. Not much has been validated beside that.

Repositories and changes

Building (WIP)

First get the source code:

$ repo init -u git://git.putti.eu/aosp/manifest_i9305.git -b android-9.0.0

For Trisquel8 (WIP):

sudo apt-get install git-core gnupg flex bison gperf build-essential zip curl zlib1g-dev gcc-multilib g++-multilib libc6-dev-i386 lib32ncurses5-dev x11proto-core-dev libx11-dev lib32z-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libxml2-utils xsltproc unzip bc python-mako

Then see the device/putti/i9305/README.md for the build instructions.

TODO

Replicant 6.0 changes

Repository path rebase worked Changes
build No
manifest No N/A
bootable/recovery Yes * UI changes to improve usability
* Branding
* Small fix(es)
external/boringssl Yes * Small fix(es)
external/heimdall No
frameworks/av Yes * Software rendering fix(es)
frameworks/base Yes * WiFi fixe(s) for external dongles
* Software rendering fix(es)
* Privacy fix(es)
* Security improvements
* Usability improvements
frameworks/native No
hardware/broadcom/wlan Yes * Remove nonfree software
hardware/libhardware Yes * Software rendering fix(es)
hardware/libhardware_legacy Yes * Don't depend on nonfree software
hardware/ti/omap4 Yes * Remove nonfree software
* Don't depend on nonfree software
* Small fix(es)
libcore Yes * Small fix(es)
packages/apps/Browser Yes * Privacy fix(es)
* Branding
* Small fix(es)
packages/apps/LegacyCamera Yes * Software rendering fix(es)
* Small fix(es)
packages/apps/RepWifi Not upstreamed, obsolete N/A
packages/apps/ReplicantWallpapers Not upstreamed * Branding
packages/apps/Settings No
packages/apps/SetupWizard Yes * Privacy fix(es)
* Don't depend on nonfree software
* Branding
packages/apps/ThemeChooser Yes * Privacy fix(es) ?
* Don't depend on nonfree software ?
packages/providers/ContactsProvider Yes * Small fix(es)
system/core Yes * Branding
* various fixes
vendor/replicant No
vendor/cmsdk Yes * Branding
external/chromium-webview ? ?
external/drm_gralloc Yes * Software rendering fix(es)
external/llvm Yes * Software rendering fix(es)
external/mesa3d Yes * Software rendering fix(es)
* Performance debugging for software rendering
external/parameter-framework Yes * Small fix(es)
external/protobuf N/A No changes
prebuilts/ndk ? ?
prebuilts/sdk ? ?
sdk Yes * Small fix(es)
toolchain/src/binutils Yes * Small fix(es)
toolchain/src/gcc No
toolchain/src/jack Yes * Small fix(es)
toolchain/src/jill Yes * Small fix(es)
kernel/samsung/smdk4412 Yes * Security fixes
* Privacy Fixes (TrustZone)
* Don't depend on nonfree software
* Remove nonfree software
* Small fix(es)
kernel/samsung/tuna
kernel/samsung/espresso10
device/samsung/i9100 No * Replace nonfree software by free software
* free software sensors implementation(s)
* free software modem audio implementation(s)
* Software rendering fix(es)
* Privacy Fixes (TrustZone)
* Don't depend on nonfree software
* Remove nonfree software
* Branding
* Small fix(es)
device/samsung/n7000 Yes
device/samsung/i9300 No
device/samsung/i9305 No
device/samsung/n7100 Yes
device/samsung/n5100 Yes
device/samsung/n5110 Yes
device/samsung/maguro Yes
device/samsung/tuna Yes
device/samsung/espressowifi Yes
device/samsung/espresso3g Yes
device/samsung/galaxys2-common Yes
device/samsung/smdk4412-common No
device/samsung/kona-common Yes
hardware/ril/samsung-ril Not upstreamed N/A
external/libsamsung-ipc Not upstreamed N/A
hardware/tinyalsa-audio Not upstreamed? N/A

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