>It seems that since these guides were written, the android kernel >has become a separate fork, and I'll have to back port my board setup >and device drivers into this android fork, almost as if starting from >scratch. This's not true as such.. till eclair (and probably froyo soon), android is based on 2.6.32 kernel.org tree. No fork as such i've seen, but android team keep pushing changesets to kernel.
You might need patches on top of community kernel tree, to make it work on the board., and it should be rebased accordingly the kernel version used by the android., but it doesnt mean there exisits a forked kernel tree.. > Do I understand the tasks correctly? Are there some current resources > that can help me with this task? I'm having a very tough time finding > current, relevant information. Not sure, we'll wait for experts to comment.. if you feel like missing some guide, u can walk through exisiting wiki's documenting work done on few platforms http://elinux.org/Android_Portal http://elinux.org/Android_Kernel_Features http://omappedia.org/wiki/Android_Getting_Started On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Bryan M <[email protected]> wrote: > I found the page on source.android.com that explains how to install > repo, download the source, and built android using the instructions. > Following advice in this group, I then ran the emulator > "ANDROID_PRODUCT_OUT=$HOME/mydroid/out/target/product/generic out/host/ > linux-x86/bin/emulator -ramdisk ./out/target/product/generic/ > ramdisk.img" The emulator ran fine -- just like it does in the sdk. > I want to install android on a real development board. I understand > that the first thing to do is get linux running. Out the box, linux > runs on this board. However, the guides I've found on the internet > suggest generating android specific patches through diff, and applying > them to your working kernel -- this has not worked out well at all for > me. It seems that since these guides were written, the android kernel > has become a separate fork, and I'll have to back port my board setup > and device drivers into this android fork, almost as if starting from > scratch. > > Do I understand the tasks correctly? Are there some current resources > that can help me with this task? I'm having a very tough time finding > current, relevant information. STFW has taken me on wild goose chases > thus far. > > -- > unsubscribe: [email protected] > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject. > -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
