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[Chirayu Desai <chirayudesai1@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 15 June 2013 02:24, Sergio Schvezov <sergio.schvezov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Chirayu Desai <chirayudesai1@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Hey everyone.
> >
> > I've got Ubuntu booting on the Android Emulator (QEMU).
> > The display is black, but I'm able to get a shell, so I think that's good
> > enough for a start.
>
> Yup looks like a good start.
>
:)

>
> > It needs forking of two repositories from CyanogenMod:
> > https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_sdk/tree/cm-10.1
> > https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_kernel_goldfish
> >
> > build/ and bootable/recovery were merged from CyanogenMod, and then the
> > below patches were applied.
> > build/ merges with a minor conflict in tools/roomservice.py, which is
> easily
> > fixable.
> > Same for bootable/recovery, minor conflict in recovery.c
> >
> > Patches:
> > bootable/recovery/
> > https://gist.github.com/chirayudesai/5fb848f0b22a12990613
>
> Not sure this is needed since the we aren't including su in our
> phablet-10.1 branch[1]
>

It will be needed if you merge from CyanogenMod, and I would prefer that
since we've got bug fixes from AOSP, some of our own, and some nice
features :)

Or we could start adbd in init.recovery.goldfish.rc

>
> > build/
> > https://gist.github.com/chirayudesai/7805698423d89e46c1a3
>
> Good, locally applied (going to push soon)
>
> > device/generic/goldfish/
> > https://gist.github.com/chirayudesai/b9008fd57e7b21abbee1
>
> Good
>
> > kernel/goldfish
> > https://gist.github.com/chirayudesai/00607ba8b0856e37754c
>
> And here's the problem, let me explain further down.
>
> > https://gist.github.com/chirayudesai/3a4583e83ad68b47363e - needed to
> get
> > ADB working.
>
> This link is broken.
>
Yep, not needed, ignore it

>
> > After all of the patches have been applied to the respective
> directories, do
> > the below.
> > . build/envsetup.sh
> > lunch cm_goldfish-eng
> > mka goldfish
>
> This works but I like to breakfast and brunch :-)
>
breakfast will pick userdebug, but we usually use eng for the emulator.
brunch won't work, since it runs make bacon, and otapackage isn't a target
for the emulator

>
> > This will build everything needed.
> > Next, make a sdcard image using the `mksdcard` tool, which is used to
> > install "saucy-preinstalled-touch-armhf.zip"
> > Boot emulator into recovery with `emulator -partition-size 4096 -ramdisk
> > $OUT/ramdisk-recovery.img -sdcard <path-to-sdcard>`
> > Push the zip to /sdcard, and install it.
> > After that, exit the emulator, and start it again with` emulator
> > -partition-size 4096`
> > `adb -e shell` will give you a shell :)
>
> The bullet proof test missing was to ubuntu_chroot or just chroot into
> /data/ubuntu...
> You will probably not be able to do anything since glibc
> MIN_KERNEL_SUPPORTED := 2.6.32


> And the kernel for the emulator in that repo is 2.6.29
>

I was able to do that, the default branch in that repository[1] contains
the 3.4 kernel, and while I initially tested with 2.6.29, I switched to 3.4
as soon as I hit that


> Any further thoughts on this?
>
> Cheers
> Sergio
>

Cheers

[1]
https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_kernel_goldfish/blob/cm-10.1/Makefile#L1