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[Chirayu Desai <chirayudesai1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here's a patch[1] that switches to the default branch for the kernel, that
is if you fork the kernel from CyanogenMod, and make a new branch
phablet-10.1 from cm-10.1 alongwith the patches I've uploaded previously.

[1] https://gist.github.com/chirayudesai/f084a1fb73ad894383a3


On 15 June 2013 09:14, Chirayu Desai <chirayudesai1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> On 15 June 2013 02:24, Sergio Schvezov <sergio.schvezov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Yup looks like a good start.
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> :)
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>> > 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
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>> Not sure this is needed since the we aren't including su in our
>> phablet-10.1 branch[1]
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> 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 :)
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> Or we could start adbd in init.recovery.goldfish.rc
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>> > build/
>> > https://gist.github.com/chirayudesai/7805698423d89e46c1a3
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>> Good, locally applied (going to push soon)
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>> > device/generic/goldfish/
>> > https://gist.github.com/chirayudesai/b9008fd57e7b21abbee1
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>> Good
>>
>> > kernel/goldfish
>> > https://gist.github.com/chirayudesai/00607ba8b0856e37754c
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>> And here's the problem, let me explain further down.
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>> > https://gist.github.com/chirayudesai/3a4583e83ad68b47363e - needed to
>> get
>> > ADB working.
>>
>> This link is broken.
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> 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
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>> 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
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>> > 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
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>> And the kernel for the emulator in that repo is 2.6.29
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> 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
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>> Any further thoughts on this?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Sergio
>>
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> Cheers
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_kernel_goldfish/blob/cm-10.1/Makefile#L1
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