Do you have an older android source code of your phone or only the linux. In case you have an older android version source code, you could start with doing a diff of the kitkat and the android source as given by the vendor and identify the elements that have been added/modified by the vendor. Once you get a feel of it, you need to either identify components and start porting them to the kitkat source from the vendor provided source. Most notably you might have to start with providing your product directory ( follow the crepso or the MSM products done in the AOSP ).
If you do not have the android source and only the linux source code, then be prepared for a huge assignment.....you basically have to identify each components, dig deep in the hardware dir of the AOSP and start integrating the linux device drivers + native libararies in the AOSP first followed by making relevant changes if any in the upper layers of the framework. On Monday, April 7, 2014 3:38:27 PM UTC-4, florian cossu wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > I'm currently interested into porting kitkat to my personal phone. I would > like to create a Kitkat AOSP rom for my phone to be precise. So to start > off I've been looking out on google for hours now, creted a topic on > XDA-devellopers, and I'm working on installing Linux and setting up my > environment. I also got the sourcefiles from the vendor (Alcatel in my > case, for the Alcatel 4030). There are a bunch of files and drivers. These > are proprietary I guess. So I'm starting rom from scratch. I think that I > will be using every libraries, and the kernel provided in the sources. But > I have A few questions: What do I need to do in order to generate a device > tree from scratch? When, where and how do the sources I've been > downloading, take part i the porting process. If someone could tell me more > about that and explain me how all of that works, or just tell me where to > look because I'm quite confused. I'm new to developing and porting. Thank > you guys! > -- -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "android-porting" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
