Greetings fellow earthlings,
in my free time I like to take apart electronic devices and see how they are built and how I can re purpose them. Also I think its a bit like digital archaeology. Its fun.

I tried to extract all the information and important things through Android Debug Bridge like:
– NANDA dump (/boot): including a .fex file. Sadly Allwinner did not use device tree files (back then).
– Kernel module (.ko) files for the peripherals.

OEM Firmware:
– U-Boot 2011.09-rc1-00013-g3aa33b0-dirty
– Android 4.0.3

root@android:/ # getprop
[ro.board.platform]: [exDroid]
[ro.build.description]: [PMP5197DULTRA-eng 4.0.3 IML74K 20120819 test-keys]
[ro.build.fingerprint]: [yftech/mw07/mw07:4.0.3/IML74K/20120819:eng/test-keys]
[ro.build.product]: [mw07]
[ro.hardware]: [sun4i]
[ro.product.board]: [crane]
[ro.product.brand]: [yftech]
[ro.product.cpu.abi]: [armeabi-v7a]

sudo sunxi-fel version 
AWUSBFEX soc=00001623(A10) 00000001 ver=0001 44 08 scratchpad=00007e00 00000000 00000000

OEM firmware U-Boot output (excerpt): *See messages down below. Discord only allows 2000 chars per post.*

Also I found the debug UART and im able to see U-Boot output and Android startup.
GCC Linaro 4.9.4 toolchain installed to compile the Allwinner sun4i kernel.

Thats how far I have come. Its the first time working so closely with the kernel and compiling it.

How would you tackle this project? What are the big things to watch out for? What are my next steps? What am I unaware of?

If you need more detail, logs, pictures just tell me and I will provide it if possible.

Thank you! 🙂

PS: My goal is to get Linux running on this tablet with as many functioning peripherals as possible. When done I want to do my first write up of all time and post it on the internet, so that I can give something back to our community. Also I want to support some kind of open source project in the future, as open source is our air and water. I think we were nothing without open source.