I think the init you find isn't the android init (the x86 init is in
sbin directory in common). android had it's own init program (system/
core/init/init.c), find it in the system diretory or use 'find . -name
init'  in your android root directory , then check the result?

On May 23, 10:00 pm, Neil Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Wue,
>
> Thanks for your quick response.
> I believe the same init executable would be generated by typing "make" on the 
> Linux-X86.  I am not sure if this "init" is for ARM926 target or not.
> I did run it on my hardware, and I got an "Illegal Instruction".  Maybe, you 
> can clarify how I should start the build process first then going to the 
> detail of how to debug the Android bringup/init.
> Neil
>
> --- On Thu, 5/21/09, wueyuan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > From: wueyuan <[email protected]>
> > Subject: [android-porting] Re: How does Android init work?
> > To: [email protected]
> > Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009, 11:14 PM
>
> > Dear Neil,
> >     Maybe you can take a glance at 
> > "system/core/init/init.c", as you have
> > the android source code.
>
> > eason
> > On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 20:00 -0700, [email protected]
> > wrote:
> > > Dear all:
>
> > > Please bear with me, I am not an expert here.
> > > First of all, I have linux 2.6.27 downloaded from
> > cupcake branch,
> > > running on my hardware platform.
> > > I got my own root fs, with busybox tool set. 
> > Everything is running
> > > very well so far.
>
> > > Now I would like to run Android cupcake, I believe
> > there is some init
> > > process involved.
> > > Also, I have successfully built Android source
> > tree.  I was able to
> > > run android qemu emulator on my linux
> > > PC.  I was able to extract the "/data" and
> > "/system" directories via
> > > the "adb" shell with the help of Benno's busybox.
>
> > > So again, the remaining work is to bring up real
> > Android.  Please
> > > spare the time to help.
>
> > > Thank you, and your help is greatly appreciated.
> > > Neil

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