And permission to move the discussion on-list received. :) -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: Android Testing Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 13:24:06 -0600 From: Rob Landley <[email protected]> To: Trevor Drake <[email protected]>
On 03/01/2015 12:39 PM, Trevor Drake wrote: > Hi Rob > > I was reading the toybox list and blog posts about setting up an > Android Bionic test environment. I note you encountered the behemoth > that is the Andriod code base. Yes I did. :) > Obviously you don't need everything to create a simple test shell > environment but figuring out the who, what, where and why's is not an > insignificant task. > Especially given the other (slightly less, but still weighty ) > behemoth that is the build system. > > Anywho this sort of motivated me to setup a tiny-tiny android target > building environment based off of the Android Build System. Ooh! I've been meaning to do this for my Aboriginal Linux project. > Right now it builds it all into a 2MB ramdisk and I'm just figuring > out how to get some useful debug out from a standard qemu-system-* so > I can test the boot. > I'll probably end up booting it on my bare metal x86_64 to test but I > thought I let you know what I'm doing as It can probably save you the > learning curve of the build system > layout. > > https://github.com/trevd/android_vendor_toybox > > Finally If toybox could use someone with a bit of Android platform > knowledge and some spare-time then I could be "that guy". > I've become a bit of a pathological committer to the AOSP so my face > is already known around those parts to, so to speak. Yes, I'm very interested. Do you mind if I post a public reply to this message to the toybox mailing list? > https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/q/owner:%22Trevor+Drake+%253Ctrevordrake.gerrit%2540gmail.com%253E%22 > > I suppose that is all for now > > Thanks > Trevor Drake Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
