Hi Julien,

I'm trying to replicate your method for building an arm64 build of android that can be run in native QEMU, and have built both AOSP and the 5.10 kernel to your specification.

An issue however is that there seems to be no vendor img produced when done in a clean environment. are other steps needed prior to the ones below to generate vendor.img ? or should I instead be using files inside of some of the other images created by AOSP?

Thanks,

FelixCLC

Hi again,

Here is the AOSP 10 on ARM64 QEMU version of the procedure I follow. Andoid
5.10 arm64 kernel build included, like for x86_64.
Appart from using "vdb" and "vdc" into fstab instead of sdb and sdc, and
removing some "rild.rc" file, the approach is the same. With some
additionnal information at the end
repo init -u <https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest> -b
android-10.0.0_r47
repo sync
source build/envsetup.sh
lunch
m -j $(nproc)

# out/target/product/generic_arm64/system.img
# out/target/product/generic_arm64/vendor.img

Create and ext4 format the partition image files:
    qemu-img create rootfs.img 5G
    qemu-img create userdata.img 1G
    qemu-img create cache.img 500M

    losetup /dev/loop0 rootfs.img
    losetup /dev/loop1 userdata.img
    losetup /dev/loop2 cache.img

    mkfs -t ext4 /dev/loop0
    mkfs -t ext4 /dev/loop1
    mkfs -t ext4 /dev/loop2

    losetup -d /dev/loop1
    losetup -d /dev/loop2

*Mouting the rootfs partition *
    mount -t ext4 /dev/loop0 /where/you/want

cp -a [system.img mount point] [rootfs/mount/point]
The content of system.img may be copied inside a folder which is named like
the mount point. Move everything 1 folder above.

cp -a [vendor.img mount point] [rootfs/mount/point]
If the name of the "vendor.img" mount point is "vendor", everything should now be inside the "/vendor" folder of the rootfs. If not, you have to move
it to /vendor folder

Delete these files:

    /vendor/lib/hw/camera.ranchu.so
    /vendor/lib/hw64/camera.ranchu.so
    /vendor/lib/hw/camera.ranchu.jpeg.so
    /vendor/lib/hw64/camera.ranchu.jpeg.so
    /vendor/lib/hw/vendor/lib/hw/gralloc.ranchu
    /vendor/lib/hw64/gralloc.ranchu
    /vendor/lib/hw/hwcomposer.ranchu
    /vendor/lib/hw64/hwcomposer.ranchu
    /vendor/lib/hw/vulkan.ranchu.so
    /vendor/lib/hw64/vulkan.ranchu.so
    /vendor/etc/init/rild.rc

Change /vendor/etc/fstab.ranchu, those 2 lines should be enough:

    /dev/block/vdb          /data           ext4
noatime,nosuid,nodev,nomblk_io_submit,errors=panic
wait,check,quota,reservedsize=128M,first_stage_mount
    /dev/block/vdc          /cache          ext4
noatime,nosuid,nodev,nomblk_io_submit,errors=panic
wait,check,quota,reservedsize=128M,first_stage_mount

Change /vendor/etc/init/hw/init.ranchu.rc by changing this line:
    setprop ro.hardware.egl emulation
  to
    setprop ro.hardware.egl swiftshader

*Manufacturing an up to date 5.10 ARM64 Android kernel:*

git clone <https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/configs>

/!\ From configs/android-5.10/android-recommended.config, if you want to use a mouse, remove the following line : # CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE is not set

git clone <https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common> -b android12-5.10

Start from copying "arch/arm64/configs/defconfig" file to the root of the
kernel tree, name it ".config",  and append to it:
    CONFIG_NETFILTER_ADVANCED=y
    Content of configs/android-5.10/android-base.config
    Content of configs/android-5.10/android-recommended.config
    Content of configs/android-5.10/android-recommended-arm64.config

make ARCH=arm64 menuconfig, exit, save: yes.

By looking with some tools, some of the things included into
x86_64_defconfig, android-base.config, android-recommended.config are not
included into the resulting ".config".
It works anyway, but it would be nice to know why theese option aren't
enabling.

    Still missing from arm64/configs/defconfig
        CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
        CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_PCIEAER=y
        CONFIG_KSM=y
        CONFIG_IP6_NF_NAT=m
        CONFIG_IP6_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE=m
        CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT=16
        CONFIG_POWER_AVS=y
        CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_GENERIC=m
        CONFIG_QCOM_IOMMU=y
        CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
        CONFIG_NFS_V4=y
        CONFIG_NFS_V4_1=y
        CONFIG_NFS_V4_2=y
        CONFIG_ROOT_NFS=y

    Still missing from android-base.config:
        CONFIG_TRACE_GPU_MEM=y

    Still missing from android-recommended.config:
        CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_LCD_SUPPORT=y
        CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL=y
        CONFIG_SDCARD_FS=y

Now, some options that are still disabled, but should be enabled according
to android-base-conditional.xml:
    CONFIG_ARMV8_DEPRECATED=y
    CONFIG_CP15_BARRIER_EMULATION=y
    CONFIG_SETEND_EMULATION=y
    CONFIG_SHADOW_CALL_STACK=y
    CONFIG_SWP_EMULATION=y
    CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON=y
    CONFIG_KFENCE=y
    CONFIG_USERFAULTFD=y

CONFIG_AIO and CONFIG_ANDROID_BINDERFS options (from android-base.config) are causing early reboot without explanations. Would be nice to know why, to keep them enabled and have something running... Until so, disable them
by adding at the end of .config:
    # CONFIG_AIO is not set
    # CONFIG_ANDROID_BINDERFS is not set

Adding VirtIO things:

    CONFIG_VIRTIO=y
    CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI=y
    CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI_LEGACY=y
    CONFIG_VIRTIO_BALLOON=y
    CONFIG_VIRTIO_INPUT=y
    CONFIG_VIRTIO_MMIO=y
    CONFIG_VIRTIO_MMIO_CMDLINE_DEVICES=y
    CONFIG_VIRTIO_DMA_SHARED_BUFFER=y
    CONFIG_BLK_MQ_VIRTIO=y
    CONFIG_MEMORY_BALLOON=y
    CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION=y
    CONFIG_PAGE_REPORTING=y
    CONFIG_DRM_GEM_SHMEM_HELPER=y
    CONFIG_DRM_VIRTIO_GPU=y

make ARCH=arm64 menuconfig, exit, save: yes.
make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- -j $(nproc)
make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu-
INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/home/user/Desktop/ INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 modules_install

*"Installing" the kernel:*
Place the the arch/arm64/boot/Image.gz file at the same place as the
rootfs.img, userdata.img and cache.img files
Place the content of /home/user/Desktop/lib/modules/5.10.37+/ into
/vendor/lib/modules/

*Unmount rootfs.img*
    umount /its/mount/point
    losetup -d /dev/loop0

*Ready to go:*

>From an x86_64 computer:
qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -cpu cortex-a72 -accel tcg,thread=multi
-smp 4 -m 2048 -kernel Image.gz -monitor none -parallel none -append
"root=/dev/vda rootfstype=ext4 ro init=/init selinux=1 checkreqprot=1
androidboot.selinux=permissive console=ttyAMA0 androidboot.hardware=ranchu loglevel=8" -serial mon:stdio -vga std -device ramfb -device nec-usb-xhci
-device usb-kbd -device usb-mouse -bios
/usr/share/qemu-efi-aarch64/QEMU_EFI.fd -drive format=raw,file=rootfs.img
-drive format=raw,file=userdata.img -drive format=raw,file=cache.img

If you are lucky enough to have an arm64 machine with KVM available on it,
and enough RAM, into the above command line, remplace:
qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -cpu cortex-a72 -accel tcg,thread=multi
-smp 4 -m 2048
by
    kvm -M virt -cpu host -accel kvm -smp 4 -m 2048

In summary, from an arm64 computer :
    kvm -M virt -cpu host -accel kvm -smp 4 -m 2048 -kernel Image.gz
-monitor none -parallel none -append "root=/dev/vda rootfstype=ext4 ro
init=/init selinux=1 checkreqprot=1 androidboot.selinux=permissive
console=ttyAMA0 androidboot.hardware=ranchu loglevel=8" -serial mon:stdio
-vga std -device ramfb -device nec-usb-xhci -device usb-kbd -device
usb-mouse -bios /usr/share/qemu-efi-aarch64/QEMU_EFI.fd -drive
format=raw,file=rootfs.img -drive format=raw,file=userdata.img -drive
format=raw,file=cache.img

*Bits of additionnal information:*
Having ARM64 AOSP running on QEMU from x86_64, even with "-accel
tcg,thread=multi" which makes things much better, you still need to wait 30 seconds before having "android" boot logo (on an AMD 3700X) and 350 seconds (almost 6 minutes) on first boot before having the android main screen with
icons and all stuff (2 minutes at the following boots).

There are some repeated messages about camera 2.4 stuff and [email protected]. You
may remove the
/vendor/etc/init/[email protected], but
messages about "[email protected]" will still appear, so
you may remove the associated entries (camera and radio) from
/vendor/manifext.xml. Then no more messages about it.

In case of need to debug, you may type "logcat" in the console: this give
way too much informations but you may spot information on what you are
looking for, or few lines above some service crashing (sometimes some
messages contains usefull information to tell you why it is going to crash
just after). Into the "userdata.img" partition you may also find
"/tombstones" folder, containing crash logs of services.

In order to cleanly poweroff your emulated system you can type "reboot -p"
so that the "userdata.img" is kept as clean as possible.

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