Land Rover A9 (landrover-a9)

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Land Rover A9
Manufacturer Land Rover
Name A9
Codename landrover-a9
Category testing
Original software Android
Original version 4.4.2
Hardware
Chipset MediaTek MT6582
CPU Quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A7
GPU Mali-400 MP2
Display 480x854
Storage 8GiB
Memory 1GiB
Architecture ARMv7
This device is marked as not booting.
Status: not booting, no active contributor
Features
USB Networking
Flashing
Touchscreen
Display
WiFi
FDE
Mainline
Battery
3D Acceleration
Audio
Bluetooth
Camera
GPS
Mobile data
Internal storage
SMS
Calls
USB OTG
NFC
Sensors
Accelerometer
Magnetometer
Ambient Light
Proximity
Hall Effect
Barometer
Power Sensor
Misc
Built-in DVB
Camera Flash
Keyboard
Touchpad
USB-A
HDMI/DP
Ir TX
Ir RX
Stylus
Memory Card
Haptics
Ethernet
FOSS bootloader


Contributors

  • alexlep

Random information

  • Obscure phone:

    This is just another clone from millions of devices from Chinese manufacturers.

  • MT6582 CPU
  • Product code F090_GPS_KK

Status

  • a boot.img file with kernel, initramfs and dtb file from pmOS does not work.
  • alexlep has a boot.img file from the vendor somewhere (extracted from the device?), that works when flashed via fastboot boot. It can not be extracted like a normal boot.img file, as reported on IRC. Probably the extraction tool can't handle the files.
  • according to alexlep, there is a 512b header in front of the kernel and initramfs:

    ramdisk and kernel has 512 bytes added in the beginning of the files

    custom header with file description

  • ...and simply prepending that header in front of a custom initramfs/kernel does not work, as he reports.

extracted boot.img, first bytes of pmOS initramfs (not working):

sp@sppc:~/else/pmbs_work/chroot_native/pmos/extracted$ xxd -l 50 ramdisk
00000000: 1f8b 0800 0000 0000 0203 949a 0d70 1ce5  .............p..
00000010: 79c7 5fb0 09b2 621b 411d ac16 0317 c7a1  y._...b.A.......
00000020: 0ed8 d6d9 96b1 2026 11b5 70d4 5814 4344 ...... &..p.X.CD
00000030: ea49                                     .I

extracted boot.img, first bytes of the vendor's initramfs (working):

sp@sppc:~/else/pmbs_work/chroot_native/olololo/extracted$ xxd -l 50 ramdisk
00000000: 8816 8858 f5a7 0c00 524f 4f54 4653 0000  ...X....ROOTFS..
00000010: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
00000020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 ffff ffff ffff ffff  ................
00000030: ffff

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