I believe this does have something to do with the permissions, and, I'd say the init.rc script is where you should do this anyhow.
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Kirtika Ruchandani <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > @Gabe: Thanks - that gives me some clarity. You are probably right about > Android being unhappy about my device. > > > I used "mount -o loop /system/sdcard.img /mnt/sdcard" in my rcS file, > where sdcard.img has been created using the Android SDK utility. The only > guesses I can make about why this doesn't work is lack of root permission > while executing the rcS or that Android's mount doesn't support mounting > something that is not a block device. > For now, I have shifted the mount command to init.rc instead. I would be > grateful if someone more Android savvy could help me with the right way to > do this. > > Regards, > Kirtika > > > > On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Gabe Black <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The mount system call will be implemented by Android, not by gem5. The >> system call implementations in gem5 are only used for system call >> emulation when you're running a program but not the OS underneath it. I >> don't know why your app is unhappy, but it might be from how you're >> devices are hooked up or what kind of device they look like to Android. >> >> Gabe >> >> On 03/04/12 01:49, Kirtika Ruchandani wrote: >> > Hi, >> > I am trying to run some Android apps on gem5 that need the sdcard, and >> > am confused about the support for mounting the sdcard. The source code >> > shows the mount syscall is an 'unimplementedFunc', so what does >> > /sbin/mount in the image do? There is also a /system/bin/mount which >> > links to the Android toolbox utility. >> > I tried using these commands within my rcS script to mount an sdcard >> > image created using the 'mksdcard' utility from the Android SDK, but >> > they seem to get ignored, since my app. still complains about no >> > sdcard. >> > Is there a way to fake the existence of the sdcard to keep Android >> > happy? Is implementing support for the mount system call a tractable >> > task? >> > Regards, >> > Kirtika >> > _______________________________________________ >> > gem5-users mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gem5-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gem5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users > > -- > Thanks, > Tony > > <http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users> <http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users>
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