Urgh, I hate the massive pile of rom noise around anything to do with android devices.
I’m using https://github.com/neo-technologies/rkflashtool because it appears to be actually maintained. https://github.com/linuxerwang/rkflashkit is also somewhat convenient, though it’s gui only. If it was a nice python tool with a gui front end that would be even better. (no idea why you need waf and install either, simple “python run.py” is perfectly suitable.) libusb+python is perfectly acceptable for this sort of thing. No idea why people went straight to C code. https://github.com/neo-technologies/rockchip-mkbootimg looks good too, but I’ve not poked it yet. Anything that’s being maintained basically.
A commonly referred tool, https://github.com/naobsd/rkutils while often pointed to, is effectively a dead end with zero follow up commits. I’ve no interest in following that nest of forks.
Anyway, here’s the bits that actually worked to open up the boot partition image extracted with either rkflashkit or rkflashtools…
- ./rkflashtool r boot > boot.img
- dd if=boot.img of=bootimg.gz skip=8 bs=1 count=20000000
- mkdir hohoho && cd hohoho
- gunzip < ../bootimg.gz | cpio -i --make-directories
According to this review of boot.img formats, this means the x5mini uses format 4.
karlp@teros:~/projects/rkflashtool/hoho (master)$ ls charger init.goldfish.rc init.usb.rc sbin ueventd.rk30board.rc data init.rc proc sys default.prop init.rk30board.rc res system dev init.rk30board.usb.rc rk30xxnand_ko.ko.3.0.36+ ueventd.goldfish.rc init init.trace.rc rk30xxnand_ko.ko.3.0.8+ ueventd.rc karlp@teros:~/projects/rkflashtool/hoho (master)$
Still learning the pieces, this is as much diary as blog.
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