[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] vikalstha:
Disclaimers :

I was doodling around today,i got my eyes poped-up :eek: wen i encounterd this

[samsung kernel flashing from cwm zip] -> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1301756 and this

[samsung general cwm kernel updater] ->http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2132208

It all began then when i had to be far from my pc.then flashing new kernls for new custom roms began to be a problem.i presume their are a lot of users like me who cant access pc with as ease as many can.or simply to them who dont want to connect to pc just to flash kernels.if this would be success,just imagine how ease it would be?

But before starting to dream lets put together what i have come across till now.

Then i started digging more...on google & found this Tutorial [many devs might be intrestd &could help xperia users& start to run xperiment in our xperia ] --> http://www.modaco.com/topic/360180-howto-build-and-update-kernel-using-cwm/

In my findings i did aknowledge that this matter has/have/had been left out in corner just for some taboos/nerms like our xperia doesnt ship with normal recovery partition or like our custm recovry doesnt support some disk formats.

But whatsoever, i was little arosed by above things....then came a point whereafter i was too excited,wen i found this in our very xperia forum,xperia p forum ->> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2409021

Here the dev has created a zip with updatr script writng the kernel image,which stays inside the boot.img file .i couldnt dig more on this zip,as it was not so popular thread.i dont even know for it works or not,all i know is there are devs wanting to build,which is the main moto of this thread to let devs rethink the possibilty.

And yes, its a convincing reason for acceptance that our xperia doesnt have recovry partition like as other vendors device..and what we get as a recovry is hard coded to ramdisk.but like as ,A xperia s user,i too want to question an enlightning point on this...like using recovry fota partition,wich gets blokd and remains unusable aftr bootloader unlockd....why not use that...if not what about repartitioning empty space in device for recovry usage partition... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2163643

i too presume, even though we dont have that heavy intrnl space,but i guess we have enough for just a recovry partition.i guess so.correct me.

FOTA partition :

The FOTAKernel partition is used by Sony to do FOTA updates when updating the boot image. Unlocked devices can't take Sony FOTA updates so using this partition for storing the recovery ramdisk seems like a good idea. Unlocked users aren't able to use this partition anyway and the FOTAKernel partition is effectively the "recovery" partition on Sony devices.

Kernel changes : extract_elf_ramdisk setup in kernel

if some body wants a detailed info it can be found here (( **thanks to [MENTION=4952282]officiallysonyrebel[/MENTION] ,for the supportive conversation.above words are his:) ** )) -- http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=38640389&postcount=2

*** Summing up in total ***

It may b a horizon-touching dream..but as a geek user, like me,we dream of it.

Our charming devs can unlock bootloaders/root/giv us custm roms/give us a taste with unimaginable upgrowing ever, android version updates in roms/ ports.these all would also be impossible without their immense hardwork/researchs/xperimnts...i do aknowledge its a lot to ask for this.but with all do respect i wish devs get ther hands on it.

I predict most of xda-ians might already know abt all this,if yes do enlighten us more...ur comments and findings are most needed thing currently.

but truely saying i really dream of using cwm @ its maximum capacity,as of its easeness,isnt it? Different vendors like samsung,zte,etc evn can get rooted simply from cwm only...even most htc can. So why cant our xperia?is it coz of less devs in our xperia?i humbly request all devs to put some work on this so that me,like users who cant access pc with ease/dont want to,can easily get the work done.i also presume there r a lot of xperians,who want this.it cant be more handy than this...can it?;)

Hope in near future ,we xperians could getwith like these features as others.(rootng/flashng kernels from cwm).

Cheers!!

Xperia-lover!!