[android-porting] Why does vold require an fstab named with ro.hardware?

2014-02-03 Thread Kyle Russell
Why did vold switch from loading the filename vold.fstab to fstab.${ro.hardware}? It seems like there's only one fstab file that ever gets loaded, and it's difficult to determine the ro.hardware property value during a build, which is when you need to know the filename to install the fstab

[android-porting] Re: Why does vold require an fstab named with ro.hardware?

2014-02-04 Thread Kyle Russell
is constant value whose value can be seen from build.prop. ro.hardware is mainly used for setting many properties, configuration files etc. On Monday, February 3, 2014 8:37:36 PM UTC+5:30, Kyle Russell wrote: Why did vold switch from loading the filename vold.fstab to fstab.${ro.hardware

[android-porting] dalvik crash during dvmInterpFindInterfaceMethod

2014-06-30 Thread Kyle Russell
I've encountered a crash in dalvik in Android 4.3-r2.2 in dvmInterpFindInterfaceMethod(). If I look at the assembly, I think the crash occurs when deferencing absMethod, which is provided by dvmDexGetResolvedMethod(). The process was android.process.acore, which appears to be the