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Kernel source

I'm very interested in how the Desire kernel works in comparison to other devices. The kernel source, which HTC is obliged to provide under the GPL, is not currently listed at http://developer.htc.com/. I e-mailed them yesterday and this was their response:
Thank you for contacting us concerning your request fro the Kernal for the HTC Legend and the HTC Desire, My name is Chris and I will be helping you today.
I do understand how important it is to be able to use your device to the best of its capabilities. We are not withholding the kernel; we are currently working through the legal channels that we must go through to make the kernel available to you. Each product is individually under review. When the kernel is available, you will be able to find it on developer.htc.com. I apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced, and thank you for your patience in this matter.
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Kernel source will also help developers find root exploits (it seems as though fastboot oem unlock does not work on the Desire, or perhaps the majority of Desires). HTC has not been prompt in providing the kernel source before, while competitors like Motorola have provided it the day of launch or before, and Google has always provided kernel source of AOSP-based devices at android.git.kernel.org.
Thus, I will encourage everyone here to pester HTC about the Desire/Legend kernel source. This may help expedite the process. There is absolutely no reason HTC must go through "legal channels" in order to release the kernel source, unless they have plans to withhold the source if said legal channels deny them the privilege of releasing the source.
Also, I'm curious about the Desire's hardware. Can someone run a "cat /proc/meminfo" to see that extra 64MB of RAM? Also, run a multitouch test to see if the Desire uses a "fixed" panel.
To begin root speculation, can anyone confirm that there are OEM unlockable Desires in the wild? If so, could we downgrade production Desires to this older SPL and then unlock? HTC's latest kernels seem rock-solid, and are probably incredibly difficult to exploit: just look at the Eris.

coolbho3000 said:
I'm very interested in how the Desire kernel works in comparison to other devices. The kernel source, which HTC is obliged to provide under the GPL, is not currently listed at http://developer.htc.com/. I e-mailed them yesterday and this was their response:
Kernel source will also help developers find root exploits (it seems as though fastboot oem unlock does not work on the Desire, or perhaps the majority of Desires). HTC has not been prompt in providing the kernel source before.
Thus, I will encourage everyone here to pester HTC about the Desire/Legend kernel source. This may help expedite the process. There is absolutely no reason HTC must go through "legal channels" in order to release the kernel source, unless they have plans to withhold the source if said legal channels deny them the privilege of releasing the source.
Also, I'm curious about the Desire's hardware. Can someone run a "cat /proc/meminfo" to see that extra 64MB of RAM?
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I think Mr. Chris does not have a clue what the hell are you talking about
those customer care guys are just there to make you feel better, in most cases they know nothing about what you really want, they just have a template that they can fill in the blanks from your request.
in the mean time, i will fire them an email too and see how they will fill in the blanks

Here's the output from meminfo below:
$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 407900 kB
MemFree: 58380 kB
Buffers: 1224 kB
Cached: 122968 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 242228 kB
Inactive: 80004 kB
Active(anon): 202488 kB
Inactive(anon): 0 kB
Active(file): 39740 kB
Inactive(file): 80004 kB
Unevictable: 0 kB
Mlocked: 0 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
Dirty: 0 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 198052 kB
Mapped: 69508 kB
Slab: 8648 kB
SReclaimable: 2556 kB
SUnreclaim: 6092 kB
PageTables: 12284 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 203948 kB
Committed_AS: 4838304 kB
VmallocTotal: 466944 kB
VmallocUsed: 130264 kB
VmallocChunk: 305156 kB

s1977 said:
Here's the output from meminfo below:
$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 407900 kB
MemFree: 58380 kB
Buffers: 1224 kB
Cached: 122968 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 242228 kB
Inactive: 80004 kB
Active(anon): 202488 kB
Inactive(anon): 0 kB
Active(file): 39740 kB
Inactive(file): 80004 kB
Unevictable: 0 kB
Mlocked: 0 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
Dirty: 0 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 198052 kB
Mapped: 69508 kB
Slab: 8648 kB
SReclaimable: 2556 kB
SUnreclaim: 6092 kB
PageTables: 12284 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 203948 kB
Committed_AS: 4838304 kB
VmallocTotal: 466944 kB
VmallocUsed: 130264 kB
VmallocChunk: 305156 kB
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Thanks Looks pretty similar to the N1 after highmem, give or take 12MB or so. That 64MB is probably baseband-only after all...

Bump: Now that the HTC Desire has been rooted, it is more imperative than ever that we have the kernel source. Kernel source will allow low-level tweaks that is not possible without it!
Please bug HTC about this issue so that the Desire kernel can be modified.

Metrodroid no GPS or YouTube

How do I get my GPS and YouTube working with this kernel? What's a good rom? right now I have updated metrodroid
Kernel
Linux version 2.6.32.27-netarchy-toastmod-4.3.2-cfs-nosbc-havs-less ([email protected]) (gcc version 4.4.1 (Sourcery G++ Lite 2010q1-202) ) #2 PREEMPT Sun Jan 23 12:17:24 CST 2011
Battery
Battery Temp: 44.3° C (111.7° F)
Battery Level: 97%
CPU
Frequency: 422400 kHz
Load Average: 1.98 1.71 1.37 1/634 4615
Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 2 (v7l)
BogoMIPS : 280.24
Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp thumbee neon
CPU implementer : 0x51
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0x00f
CPU revision : 2
Hardware : supersonic
Revision : 0003
Serial : 0000000000000000
Time in State
128000 | 33 | 0%
245000 | 88252 | 12.78%
384000 | 6808 | 0.99%
422400 | 198988 | 28.81%
460800 | 163910 | 23.73%
499200 | 3239 | 0.47%
537600 | 261 | 0.04%
576000 | 7131 | 1.03%
614400 | 42060 | 6.09%
652800 | 769 | 0.11%
691200 | 64 | 0.01%
729600 | 54 | 0.01%
768000 | 10180 | 1.47%
806400 | 28898 | 4.18%
844800 | 44 | 0.01%
883200 | 6851 | 0.99%
921600 | 0 | 0%
960000 | 1 | 0%
998400 | 61328 | 8.88%
1036800 | 71913 | 10.41%
1075200 | 0 | 0%
1113600 | 0 | 0%
1152000 | 0 | 0%
1190400 | 0 | 0%
1228800 | 0 | 0%
1267200 | 0 | 0%
Memory
MemTotal: 424772 kB
MemFree: 5908 kB
Buffers: 412 kB
Cached: 97564 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 199672 kB
Inactive: 173256 kB
Active(anon): 145872 kB
Inactive(anon): 137384 kB
Active(file): 53800 kB
Inactive(file): 35872 kB
Unevictable: 7196 kB
Mlocked: 6900 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
Dirty: 0 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 282168 kB
Mapped: 74060 kB
Shmem: 1108 kB
Slab: 12544 kB
SReclaimable: 3184 kB
SUnreclaim: 9360 kB
KernelStack: 5072 kB
PageTables: 18096 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 212384 kB
Committed_AS: 8782940 kB
VmallocTotal: 450560 kB
VmallocUsed: 180340 kB
VmallocChunk: 227332 kB
Htc Evo flashed to metro thanks xda!!

I have same kernel. It loaded with instal of metrodroid 2.2. Everything works for me.
Please check your other post on same topic/question for answer.
Thanks.

SGY data dumps for comparison purposes

for some folks it may come in handy to have some data for comparison, if their local device e.g. went haywire
Code:
[FONT=Courier New][SIZE=2]
Build: GINGERBREAD.XXLA2
Bootloader: unknown
Radio: unknown
Network: Telekotz.jp
Kernel: Linux version 2.6.35.7 ([email protected]) [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Courier New][SIZE=2]
(gcc version 4.4.3 (GCC) ) #31 PREEMPT Wed Jan 11 13:52:53 KST 2012
Command line: console=ttyS0,115200n8 mem=362M kmemleak=off
root=/dev/ram0 rw androidboot.console=ttyS0 [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Courier New][SIZE=2]
mtdparts=bcm_uminand:[email protected](bcm_boot)ro,[email protected](loke)ro,
[email protected](loke_bk)ro,[email protected](systemdata)ro,
[email protected](modem)ro,[email protected](param_lfs)rw,
[email protected](boot)ro,[email protected](boot_backup)ro,
[email protected](system)rw,[email protected](cache)rw,
[email protected](userdata)rw,[email protected](efs)rw,
[email protected](sysparm_dep)ro,[email protected](umts_cal)ro,
[email protected](cal)r
BOOT_MODE=0 loglevel=0 BOOT_FOTA=0
DEBUG_LEVEL=LOW
------ MEMORY INFO (/proc/meminfo) ------[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Courier New][SIZE=2]
MemTotal: 296640 kB
MemFree: 19412 kB
Buffers: 2380 kB
Cached: 80208 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 90208 kB
Inactive: 131512 kB
Active(anon): 57440 kB
Inactive(anon): 84872 kB
Active(file): 32768 kB
Inactive(file): 46640 kB
Unevictable: 2816 kB
Mlocked: 0 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 296640 kB
LowFree: 19412 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
Dirty: 164 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 141980 kB
Mapped: 27980 kB
Shmem: 364 kB
Slab: 21052 kB
SReclaimable: 4180 kB
SUnreclaim: 16872 kB
KernelStack: 4704 kB
PageTables: 11672 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 148320 kB
Committed_AS: 1954324 kB
VmallocTotal: 409600 kB
VmallocUsed: 36504 kB
VmallocChunk: 330360 kB[/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=2]
[/SIZE]

How did you manage to get the info?
Sent from my GT-S5360 using xda premium

adb bugreport or similar.
it makes sense to dump some of the logfiles from internal mem. can be of some use after screw up.

adb bugreport > d:\report.txt
with MAROC-OS new SGY kernel
Build: GINGERBREAD.XXKI6
Bootloader: unknown
Radio: unknown
Network: (unknown)
Kernel: Linux version 2.6.35.7 ([email protected]) (gcc version 4.4.1 (Sourcery G++ Lite 2009q3-68) ) #36 PREEMPT Fri Mar 16 06:48:52 WET 2012
Command line: console=ttyS0,115200n8 mem=362M kmemleak=off root=/dev/ram0 rw androidboot.console=ttyS0 mtdparts=bcm_umi-nand:[email protected](bcm_boot)ro,[email protected](loke)ro,[email protected](loke_bk)ro,[email protected](systemdata)ro,[email protected](modem)ro,[email protected](param_lfs)rw,[email protected](boot)ro,[email protected](boot_backup)ro,[email protected](system)rw,[email protected](cache)rw,[email protected](userdata)rw,[email protected](efs)rw,[email protected](sysparm_dep)ro,[email protected](umts_cal)ro,[email protected](cal)r BOOT_MODE=0 loglevel=0 BOOT_FOTA=0 DEBUG_LEVEL=LOW

Normal CPU Behavior

Hi!
I recently got a new kernel, and got SetCPU. I'm using smartass. Everything seems to be working, but I just want to be sure. Here are my specs and all that (3 mins before posting:
Kernel
Linux version 2.6.35.10-ga66971c ([email protected]) (gcc version 4.4.0 (GCC) ) #2 PREEMPT Fri Jan 6 12:42:25 PHT 2012
Battery
Battery Temp: 30.9° C (87.6° F)
Battery Level: 100%
CPU
Frequency: 768000 kHz
Load Average: 7.30 7.13 6.84 1/822 13451
Processor : ARMv6-compatible processor rev 5 (v6l)
BogoMIPS : 767.55
Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp java
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 6TEJ
CPU variant : 0x1
CPU part : 0xb36
CPU revision : 5
Hardware : marvel
Revision : 0080
Serial : 0000000000000000
Time in State
120000 | 286047 | 3.62%
122880 | 0 | 0%
200000 | 46288 | 0.59%
245760 | 31688 | 0.4%
320000 | 3564078 | 45.15%
400000 | 235593 | 2.98%
480000 | 2990512 | 37.88%
600000 | 7580 | 0.1%
768000 | 387971 | 4.91%
787200 | 0 | 0%
806400 | 344867 | 4.37%
Memory
MemTotal: 428112 kB
MemFree: 18584 kB
Buffers: 204 kB
Cached: 107076 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 165012 kB
Inactive: 190060 kB
Active(anon): 117796 kB
Inactive(anon): 145480 kB
Active(file): 47216 kB
Inactive(file): 44580 kB
Unevictable: 10736 kB
Mlocked: 10428 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
Dirty: 0 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 258532 kB
Mapped: 55388 kB
Shmem: 4748 kB
Slab: 15688 kB
SReclaimable: 4080 kB
SUnreclaim: 11608 kB
KernelStack: 6576 kB
PageTables: 15612 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 214056 kB
Committed_AS: 3129444 kB
VmallocTotal: 475136 kB
VmallocUsed: 129264 kB
VmallocChunk: 296964 kB
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FTVStick - Confirm RAM

Hey,
My stick has been a PITA lately, slow and sluggish with SPMC.
System Info has the currant free mem dropping to 20-30mb and all I have running and installed is SPMC & Llama.
My surprise was Kodis System Info shows the device as only having 494 RAM! Never thought to check before!
I had to double check this as was sure it shipped with 1GB, Amazon site's specs confirm it.
Can someone with a UK pre-ordered FTVstick confirm this for me, I want to make sure its an issue with SPMC reading it wrong.
My FTVBox with the same SPMC reads it 19xx which would be right for the 2GB it ships with.
Im gonna stick a proper app on it later to see what it reads in case it i a SPMC issue.
TIA

adb shell cat /proc/meminfo
shows:
MemTotal: 506260 kB
MemFree: 13728 kB
Buffers: 11956 kB
Cached: 80888 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 383912 kB
Inactive: 50468 kB
adb shell top -m 10
will show you which process uses CPU cycles

Cheers for the command!
Heres my stats:
MemTotal: 506260 kB
MemFree: 20144 kB
Buffers: 7704 kB
Cached: 42768 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 413900 kB
Inactive: 24640 kB
Active(anon): 388796 kB
Inactive(anon): 220 kB
Active(file): 25104 kB
Inactive(file): 24420 kB
Unevictable: 684 kB
Mlocked: 0 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
Dirty: 0 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 388776 kB
Mapped: 27840 kB
Shmem: 264 kB
Slab: 20008 kB
SReclaimable: 5052 kB
SUnreclaim: 14956 kB
KernelStack: 7864 kB
PageTables: 9200 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 253128 kB
Committed_AS: 4895500 kB
VmallocTotal: 483328 kB
VmallocUsed: 30768 kB
VmallocChunk: 416708 kB
User 1%, System 2%, IOW 0%, IRQ 0%
User 7 + Nice 0 + Sys 16 + Idle 585 + IOW 0 + IRQ 0 + SIRQ 0 = 608
PID PR CPU% S #THR VSS RSS PCY UID Name
2543 1 3% S 57 750496K 193888K bg u0_a1 com.semperpax.spmc
26012 1 0% R 1 1200K 504K shell top
29 0 0% S 1 0K 0K root ksmd
25132 1 0% S 32 498708K 19444K bg u0_a2202 com.amazon.storm.lightning.servic
s
6 0 0% S 1 0K 0K root migration/0
7 1 0% S 1 0K 0K root migration/1
8 1 0% S 1 0K 0K root kworker/1:0
9 1 0% S 1 0K 0K root ksoftirqd/1
10 1 0% S 1 0K 0K root khelper
11 1 0% S 1 0K 0K root netns
And heres my FireTV Box
MemTotal: 1993512 kB
MemFree: 595880 kB
Buffers: 104304 kB
Cached: 741024 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 603528 kB
Inactive: 568520 kB
Active(anon): 327784 kB
Inactive(anon): 316 kB
Active(file): 275744 kB
Inactive(file): 568204 kB
This still says to me its only got 512 RAM whereas the FTVBox has 2GB?

Look up dedicated memory and shared memory to get a better explanation. The Fire TV stick shares its memory for graphics and the system. It has 1gb of memory 512mb for the system and 512mb for grapics. This is normal on systems where graphics cards do not have their own dedicated memory, so inside Kodi it will only show system memory.

porkenhimer said:
Look up dedicated memory and shared memory to get a better explanation. The Fire TV stick shares its memory for graphics and the system. It has 1gb of memory 512mb for the system and 512mb for grapics. This is normal on systems where graphics cards do not have their own dedicated memory, so inside Kodi it will only show system memory.
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Ahh now that makes sense.
I hadn't read that it was shared memory. Cheers for that.
God I wish we had root so I could disable all the Amazon crap. If I hadnt got it for £19 I would've splashed out for the box, it just flies!