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After the rumors from last week it is finaly clear, Samsung put a new firmware for the I7500 Galaxy to the web. The greatest thing this is a Android Donut release.

The standard Galaxy kernel based on a very old 2.6.27 version and their are lot of changes after this kernel. So i planed to upgrade the kernel to the version which used the N1 Google phone. I prefer to start from the Samsung update3, because it is the latest and i hope the wlan driver has the needed fixes.

I created a diff between the andoid-msm-2.6.27 and update3. The diff-file is 9mb big and shows that 800 files are different.

These subprojects must be ported to the new 2.6.29 kernel, also many other files:

arch/arm/boot
arch/arm/configs
arch/arm/include/asm
arch/arm/kernel
arch/arm/mach-msm
arch/arm/mm
drivers/base/power
drivers/bluetooth
drivers/char
drivers/cpufreq
drivers/dpram
drivers/i2c/busses
drivers/input
drivers/leds
drivers/media
drivers/mfd
drivers/misc
drivers/mmc
drivers/mtd
drivers/net
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/
drivers/serial
drivers/spi
drivers/usb
drivers/video
include
init
kernel
lib
mm
net
scripts
security
sound

After a long time without any news from Samsung to upgrade their Samsung i7500 Galaxy from the old 1.5 android version to a newer one, the community will make this job.

The diffs between the Galaxy kernel source from Samsungs update2 to update3 are very small.