Software tools with a very basic interface.We could probably manage to do that with: This could help us understand the consequences of repartitioning and users would be able to fix most issues encountered by themselves if needed. We could start by making something experimental/dangerous for more advanced users to try it on devices with no important data at all (they would have to backup the EFS before for instance). However, having tools to do that is highly desirable. If we require repartitioning, we need to handle it in a very robust way, else we would have a huge number of issues to handle ("bricked" device, can't switch to another distribution, can't install old Replicant versions to do a test, I lost all my data, etc). The PIT file must be crafted according to needs of the Android distribution, and thus is a task for Replicant maintainers. However this isn't much relevant, as editing PIT files is not something end-users are going to do. Users could easily access this new feature once a new version is released.
The only advantage I see on adding this to Heimdall, is that Heimdall is already packaged in several GNU/Linux distros. Heimdall should only do flashing ("do one thing, do it right"). This existing feature could be leveraged to create the reverse command, say build-pit, that grabs the human readable text format and generates the corresponding binary PIT.ĭue to modularity and separation of concerns, I would rather have both these commands ( print-pit and build-pit) in a separate tool. This can be used through Heimdall's print-pit command. Heimdall includes a sub-module, called libpit that can read a PIT file and print the contents in a human readable format. There is only a proprietary tool dubbed PIT Magic. Unfortunately, there is no free software tool available to edit PIT files. However, repartitioning may be needed in the near future, due to issues like #1873. So far, Replicant did not require any device to be repartitioned, and rather sticked with the stock partition table. They can be used by flashing tools such as Heimdall to repartition the device. PIT (Partition Information Table) files contain the partition layout for Samsung phones and tablets.
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