hi Juan Lang, Thanks for the reply. I will just try this and let you know. and also i just want to know one thing. I am behind the proxy so I am not able to sync with the repo. is there any possible way to get the goldfish kernel through http.
thanks raj On Aug 13, 1:05 am, Juan Lang <juan.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > The kernel in the android source dir isn't of much use. You'll want > to check out the kernel tree separately. I did the following: > > $ git clone git://android.git.kernel.org/kernel/common.git > $ git checkout -t origin/android-goldfish-2.6.27 -b goldfish > $ cd common # the kernel source is now in here > $ make goldfish_defconfig > > Then build it and run it. > > If that doesn't work for you, you may need to get the config from a > running kernel, rather than using the goldfish_defconfig. Use > something like 'adp pull /proc/config.gz', decompress config.gz, and > rename it .config in the kernel source directory. Then build and run > it. > > Good luck, > --Juan > > > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:48 AM, rk<raj.10...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > HI, > > > I am trying to build the custom kernel from the kernel source which is > > inside the Android source dir. To build the kernel I just followed the > > steps given in the following thread > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-platform/browse_thread/thread/... > > > In that they mentioned that we can start the emulator with the > > following command. > > > out/host/linux-x86/bin/emulator -kernel kernel/arch/arm/boot/zImage - > > system out/target/product/generic/ & > > > But when I try to boot upi with that I got few errors. at the end I > > end up with the following command to start the ematulor with the > > prebuilt kernel, > > > $ ~/android_cupcake_old/out/host/linux-x86/bin/emulator -ramdisk > > ramdisk.img -sysdir . -system system.img -initdata userdata.img -data > > userdata.image -kernel ~/android_cupcake_old/prebuilt/android-arm/ > > kernel/kernel-qemu > > > So now the above command launching the emulator fine with the pre- > > built the kernel. > > > So now I changed the command to launch the emulator with the new built > > kernel. Here is the command. > > > $ ~/android_cupcake_old/out/host/linux-x86/bin/emulator -ramdisk > > ramdisk.img -sysdir . -system system.img -initdata userdata.img -data > > userdata.image -kernel ~/android_cupcake_old/kernel/arch/arm/boot/ > > zImage > > > So here I am not able to see anything. The terminal looks like it's > > booting the emulator. But there is nothing coming up. and also there > > is no messages. > > > Please give me some pointers and suggestions to make my own build of > > the kernel and launch the emulator using the custom kernel not with > > the prebuilt. > > > Thanks > > Raj- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
