Cyanogen Mod Team Hard At Work To Bring Android to the HP TouchPad

So, you bought a HP TouchPad and now you’re admittedly a little bit worried? Understandable as webOS is now extinct. Thankfully the reliable hacker community has your back. It’s no surprise to hear the Cyanogen Mod team is hard at work already trying to bring Android 2.3.5 (Gingerbread) to the TouchPad slab. The port is still in its early infancy stage, but is showing signs of hope for TouchPad owners everywhere.

Currently the port only boots up and unlocks with the help of ADB, and the touchpad itself is not working yet. Here’s what Cyanogen Mod had to say about their progress.

“As you can see from this quick demo, we’ve been working hard and have made progress. Since this video was created last week, the build has been more “tabletized” (tablet tweaks added, etc.), lvm support has been added, and 2d hardware acceleration should appear very soon.

The touchscreen driver issue is now the focus of our attention.

Our ultimate vision is to create a *multiboot* solution where the end user will be able to boot into WebOS, Cyanogenmod, and/or other OSes. This appears to be very possible, and we have discussed several potential implementations with our new friends in the WebOS development community to make it easy for an end-user to set up.”

Regardless, we’ve got faith that we won’t have to wait too long before TouchPad owners can exchange their webOS for some CM7 magic. Check out the demo video (above), and we’ll stay on top of this as it develops further.

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