[Title] Enabling android-x86 upon ThinkPad Series with miscellaneous functions
[Summary] As you see the same as what above, here's this topic mainly involved in personal experiences under a series of thinkpad laptop/pc with android -x86 by google in the cupcake branch of android's source tree by virtue of miscellaneous ways, such as a android-bootable usb/hd or a virtualization software (e.g. virtalbox/vmware) or others!! Meanwhile, several special and further topics are also discussed, most likely relating to the android's distro for laptop/pc, the community of laptop and mobile phone under android. Additionally, many thanks to these members in the community, namely android-porting, especially those members in the following threads, 1> Android x86? http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting/browse_thread/thread/ab553116dbc960da 2> Howto build Android full source for X86 Architecture like EeePC (ASUS) http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting/browse_thread/thread/66862bdb52dac936 3> x86 AndroidのUSBブートイメージを作成 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/naka-3/20081229/1230541175 Finally, any discussions or tips or suggestions or appendixes are really appreciated!! In the meantime, please correct me anywhere I have taken mistakes!! -- Enjoying "brainstorm"!! [Table of Content] 0. Introduction 1. Android source tree considerations 2. Booting up android from usb/hd 3. Booting up android by virtualization software 4. Distributions of android 5. Combination of laptop/pc and phone, both wireless and mobile [0. Introduction] 0.1. Hardware ThinkPad series with x86 architecture. In the case here, it's mainly focusing on ThinkPad R60. CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 1.66GHz RAM: 512 MiB ROM: 60 GiB Audio:Intel 82801G (ICH7 Family) HDAC Display/Video: ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 Wired Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 21) Wireless Network: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02) 0.2. Software You can select what you prefer as your os running on one ThinkPad. In the case here, it's primarily concentrating on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) $ uname -a Linux samuel-laptop 2.6.24-22-generic #1 SMP Mon Nov 24 18:32:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux $ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu3) [1. Android source tree considerations] 1.1.Prerequisites In order to set up your local environment upon your os before getting and compiling successfully android source tree with more details, please refer to the following link, https://sites.google.com/a/android.com/opensource/download 1.2. Synchronization $ mkdir ~/project/cupcake && cd ~/project/cupcake $ repo init-u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git-b cupcake $ repo sync $ vi ./.repo/local_manifest.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <manifest> <project name="platform/vendor/asus/eee_701" path="vendor/asus/ eee_701"/> </manifest> $ repo sync 1.3. Compiling android $ TARGET_ARCH=x86 TARGET_PRODUCT=eee_701 DISABLE_DEXPREOPT=true make - j2 installer_img [2. Booting up android from usb/hd] 2.0. Hardware Mobile Disk (with usb 2.0): sdb | sdb1 | sdb2 | sdb3 2.1. Creating image $ sudo su # mkdir /mnt/andusb # mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb3 /mnt/andusb # cp -fr ./out/target/product/eee_701/root/* /mnt/andusb/ # cp -fr ./out/target/product/eee_701/system/* /mnt/andusb/system/ # cp -fr ./out/target/product/eee_701/data/* /mnt/andusb/data/ # mkdir /mnt/andusb/boot # mkinitramfs -o /mnt/andusb/boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-android 2.6.27- android # cp ./kernel/arch/x86/boot/bzImage /mnt/andusb/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27- android # chmod 666 /mnt/andusb/system/usr/keylayout/* # rm /mnt/usb/system/app/SoftKeyboard.apk # wget http://junkyard.googlecode.com/files/init.rc # cp init.rc /mnt/andusb/ 2.2. Grub installation # mkdir /mnt/andusb/boot/grub # grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/andusb --no-floppy /dev/sdb # wget http://junkyard.googlecode.com/files/menu.lst # cp menu.lst /mnt/andusb/boot/grub/ 2.3. Reboot # reboot 2.4. Checking booting order First, going into the setting of biso during the startup before checking your boot priority order, and then selecting the suitable usb (like +USB HDD) as your first booting option!! (TO-BE-CONTINUING) P.S. it seems that i can't boot up android from mobile disk with usb2.0 according to the instructions above!! please help me out!! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
