[openAOS-android] booting version of froyo source

Wed Oct 20 15:44:40 CEST 2010

I've pulled in some updates to the repo so it now compiles.

Enjoy,

Al.
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On 20 Oct 2010, at 08:04, Christian Bienia wrote:

> Hi Al,
> 
> Perfect timing! :) I just talked with dm8tbr in the chat about the problem.
> I followed all the instructions from the wiki, the SGX libraries are
> installed as the last step. Here is the snippet from my meta Makefile that I
> wrote to automate this job:
> 
> image:
>        ifneq "$(USER)" "root"
>        $(error Must be root to create images. Run `su -')
>        endif
> 
>        dd if=/dev/zero of=$(ANDROID_PATH)/froyo.img bs=1M count=128
>        /sbin/mke2fs -F -j $(ANDROID_PATH)/froyo.img
>        mkdir -p $(ANDROID_PATH)/image_rootfs
>        mount -o loop $(ANDROID_PATH)/froyo.img $(ANDROID_PATH)/image_rootfs
> 
>        cd $(ANDROID_PATH)/src/out/target/product/gen7/root && tar cf - . |
> ( cd $(ANDROID_PATH)/image_rootfs ; tar xfBp - )
>        cd $(ANDROID_PATH/src/out/target/product/gen7/system && tar cf - . |
> ( cd $(ANDROID_PATH)/image_rootfs/system ; tar xfBp - )
>        cd $(ANDROID_PATH)/packages/OMAP35x_SDK_rel3 &&
> DISCIMAGE=$(ANDROID_PATH)/image_rootfs ./install.sh
> 
>        chown -R root:root $(ANDROID_PATH)/image_rootfs/.
>        umount $(ANDROID_PATH)/image_rootfs
>        gzip froyo.img
> 
> 
> You will recognize the commands from the wiki, I only renamed some
> directories. I also tried to get some debug output from the debug bridge but
> it crashes my Windows system in a very horrible way. :(
> 
> There were some syntax issues in the repo that I had to fix to get
> everything to build. Dm8tbr suspects that recent code updates could be the
> reason why Froyo doesn't boot anymore. He suspects the TI repositories
> because they're worked on pretty heavily. The prebuilt Froyo alpha 3 pre 2
> worked fine for me. We concluded it might be best to revert all git
> repositories to an earlier state because we frankly don't see what else
> might be wrong here. I wanted to get in touch with you in Al to talk about
> the best course of action for that. Do you have a working copy of the source
> code or any other idea how to get a working image?
> 
> Best,
> Chris
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: openaos-android-bounces at openaos.org
> [mailto:openaos-android-bounces at openaos.org] On Behalf Of Al Sutton
> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 2:34 AM
> To: openaos-android at openaos.org
> Subject: Re: [openAOS-android] booting version of froyo source
> 
> Have you installed the steps to add the SGX libraries, making sure you add
> them just before you create the image file?
> 
> The build needs these external libraries to boot, so if you haven't followed
> the instructions carefully you may have overwritten files from the SGX
> libraries with some from the build which can cause problems.
> 
> Al.
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> On 20 Oct 2010, at 00:58, Christian Bienia wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm looking for a version of the froyo source tree for my A5IT that boots
> to
>> the UI. The alpha 3 pre 2 image does that but if I build the image from
> the
>> current sources it gets stuck somewhere during the boot sequence. Does
>> anybody know how to revert the repository back to alpha 3 pre 2 status, or
>> does anybody have an archive with an older version of the source tree that
>> boots?
>> 
>> Thanks a lot in advance!
>> 
>> Best,
>> Chris
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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