Hello, 
This week, I had quite some progress on my GSoC project.
The task scheduled was to provide a `preinit` which could boot Gentoo in System-As-Root enabled phones.
I completed that for good using the `magiskboot` tool, by hexpatching the kernel for such devices [1].
I faced some issues after patching the kernel as well, resolving them without the access of a serial console was inconvenient but achieved nevertheless. I have written extensive blogs, explaining the entire journey of doing it [2]. Overall, the process of using preinit is now streamlined and simple.

Apart from this, I have written a blog on the boot-mechanisms different versions of Android have. My blogs would be the primary source of watching my activity on GSoC, apart from the irc of-course. 

The next task scheduled for week 1-2 was to boot Android in a container in the Gentoo land. I am pleased to inform that we have achieved that goal as well. It is in barebones presently, but everything (RIL, camera, etc.) works inside the Android container. 
For the upcoming week, I will be writing a new `init` for bringing support to almost every boot-mechanism Google has experimented with. This would also help the project in being very scalable because we would have a single point of maintainence.

Regards,
Gunwant Jain


[1] https://gitlab.com/WantGuns/sar-preinit 
[2] https://wantguns.gitlab.io