Android running on Dell Latitude E6410's "ON" Partition?

[sniffs]

So the Dell Latitude E6410, and E4300 series laptops have what's called 'Latitude ON'

It's basically a very quick boot, quick loading Linux OS that allows you to do basic things such as checking email, etc..

This Linux OS also is powered by a separate SoC chip, an ARM processor alongside the Dell's main CPU.

It would be AMAZINGLY awesome to put Android on that partition..

Anyone think this is possible?

 

[igotsanevo4g]

So the Dell Latitude E6410, and E4300 series laptops have what's called 'Latitude ON'

It's basically a very quick boot, quick loading Linux OS that allows you to do basic things such as checking email, etc..

This Linux OS also is powered by a separate SoC chip, an ARM processor alongside the Dell's main CPU.

It would be AMAZINGLY awesome to put Android on that partition..

Anyone think this is possible?

Probably, check this out Android-x86 - Porting Android to x86

 

[jdbower]

That is an interesting system. So it's running Windows/Linux on the main AMD/Intel processor but has a method for booting into a custom embedded OS as well? Android x86 is a great way to get it running on the Intel side of things or (more appropriately, IMHO) in a Virtual Machine, but you'd need to compile an ARM-based version for the SoC.

I can't help much since I don't have a Dell laptop nor much experience in compiling Android from scratch, but here's some info from someone in the Fedora forums that may be a good starting place.

 

[sniffs]

It's got 2 power buttons.. the regular square one that boots the Intel/AMD board and boots into windows..

then about a quarter inch to the left of the main power button is a rectangle button that you press and it instant boots on the ARM based CPU/OS..

 

[Nitros7]

Guess it would really boil down to the chip the OS was on if its a simple NAND chip you may be in business. other wise it may be a challenge getting anything to write to the "other OS" chip.