IoTGateway/BSP/Android/Android BSP User Guide 6.0.1 2.1.0

Android 6.0.1_2.1.0

Setup Ubuntu host computer

Install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64bit. You should have about 80 Gbytes of free disk space for building images.

Go to http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/ and download 64-bit PC (AMD64) desktop image: http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/ubuntu-14.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso for the installation.

Install docker and Use docker

Please use docker environment to compiler Android 6.0.1_2.1.0

Android 6.0.1_2.1.0 Docker

Image Repository : advrisc/u14.04-imx6abv4

Image Tag : 20160825

Reference: http://ess-wiki.advantech.com.tw/view/IoTGateway/Docker

Getting Android source code (Android 6.0.1_2.1.0/kernel Yocto-2.0 /U-Boot Yocto-2.0)

$ mkdir myandroid
$ mkdir bin
$ cd myandroid/
$ curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ../bin/repo
$ chmod a+x ../bin/repo
$ ../bin/repo init -u https://github.com/ADVANTECH-Corp/android-manifest.git -b m6.0.1_2.1.0-ga
$ ../bin/repo sync

Remove the .repo and .git file

$ find . -name .repo | xargs rm -rf 
$ find . -name .git | xargs rm -rf 

Patch to Android M6.0.1_2.1.0

$ cd myandroid/bootable/bootloader/uboot-imx/
$ patch -p1 <../../../patches_android_6.0.1/6001-Uboot_Yocto_4.1.15_1.2.0-to-Android_M6.0.1_2.1.0.patch
$ cd myandroid/kernel_imx/
$ patch -p1 <../patches_android_6.0.1/6001-Linux_Yocto_4.1.15_1.2.0-to-Android_M6.0.1_2.1.0.patch
$ cd myandroid/

Building Android 6.0.1_2.1.0 image for SD card

Naming Rule

It is consist of the model name followed by "AB" plus version number, for example, 4410ABV2080 which "4410" stands for RSB-4410, "AB" is acronym of Android BSP, "V2080" stands for Version 2.080; other model names list below:

  "3420" stands for ROM-3420
  "5420" stands for ROM-5420
  "7420" stands for ROM-7420
  "7421" stands for ROM-7421
  "DS31" stands for UBC-DS31
  "U220" stands for UBC-220

Build Instructions

To build boot loader

Perform the following command in terminal console

$ make -j4 bootloader

The two files, u-boot_crc.bin & u-boot_crc.bin.crc, will be located in directory, ./out/target/product/product_name

To build boot image

Perform the following command in terminal console

to do build bootimage

$ make -j4 bootimage

To build system image

Perform the following command in terminal console

to do build systemimage

$ make -j4 systemimage

$ out/host/linux-x86/bin/simg2img out/target/product/$PRODUCT/system.img out/target/product/$PRODUCT/system_raw.img

$ mv out/target/product/$PRODUCT/system_raw.img out/target/product/$PRODUCT/system.img

simg2img is a tool that converts a sparse system image to a raw system image on a Linux host PC and is located in myandroid/out/host/linux-x86/bin/simg2img.