Thanks - the pointer is much appreciated and helpful. A board vendor has already created an aosp build for their board, so they have a device/<company> and vendor/<company> directory and they are building 2 things - an aosp_<codename> image and a <codename> image. So we think we just need to use the aosp_<codename> build to create the baseline image for our product which will run on this same board. Then we will add some libraries and an application which is our product derivative off of this board's AOSP image. Then somehow we will ultimately need to walk through everything they are building in their aosp image that we don't need and prune that stuff out somehow.
The first thing we did is the manual version of the script you pointed us to. Then somehow reference the board manufacturers' /device and /vendor TOP directories. Then we thought we could simply use the overlay mechanism to add the libraries and application for our product to the board vendor's aosp image. But this is resulting in a bunch of errors. We also tried the brute force approach - basically copying over files from the /device/<company> directory into our device/<ourcompany> directory until we can build an image. We did manage to get that to work, but we don't know if that is what we're supposed to do or not. It works, but if the board vendor changes anything in their build environment, we would need to go through an iteration of figuring out which files changed and then change those things in our directory - because of this, it feels like this is not the right approach. What's missing is a good example of how a company is supposed to use the build environment for a board that has already created an Android AOSP image and simply add their modules to create the image for their product. IT seems like this should be very simple, but we haven't come across the magic formula yet. Thanks! Curt On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 9:40 AM florian....@inovex.de < florian.limber...@inovex.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure how current the information is, but in device/common is a > script called populate-new-device.sh, which creates some boilerplate as > a starting point. > > I hope that helps. > curt.sc...@gmail.com schrieb am Mittwoch, 14. Juli 2021 um 05:56:32 UTC+2: > >> Hello, >> >> We're planning to use an existing board build on the AOSP and we want to >> create a new product build based on this existing one plus the additional >> application software we add. >> >> I can't seem to find an up-to-date description of how to do this - they >> best I found was a powerpoint from 2015 that is what I'm looking for except >> that it's out of date. >> >> If anyone has any up-to-date descriptions or links to descriptions on how >> to do this, I'd really appreciate them! >> > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Android > Building" mailing list. > To post to this group, send email to android-building@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-building+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-building?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Android Building" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/android-building/A2adhSfvC5c/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > android-building+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/android-building/39ea1101-c1ed-4343-a9d0-6b589fba007cn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/android-building/39ea1101-c1ed-4343-a9d0-6b589fba007cn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Android Building" mailing list. To post to this group, send email to android-building@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-building+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-building?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Building" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-building+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/android-building/CACH%3Dqi4uJQhgTgVn8hEXdpnaQEFTaeBkew-b3ffbxd-Hi7YKiQ%40mail.gmail.com.
