[android-kernel] Kernel variable to user interface

2014-06-04 Thread zoe vas
Is there an easy way to expose a kernel variable to the user interface?? I guess it can be exposed via a system call. Until now, i only found this site giving some information about system calls in android http://mohsin-junaid.blogspot.gr/2013/01/android-system-calls-hooking-to-trace.htm. Maybe,

[android-kernel] Re: boot.img too large

2014-06-03 Thread zoe vas
Thanks a lot about your quick responses. As for *mark gross *comments: What do you mean with the baseline build for the htc device? There are many defconfig files in the arch/arm/configs folder. I chose the supersonic_defconfig which is for the htc 4g evo device (model supersonic). Is there so

[android-kernel] boot.img too large

2014-06-01 Thread zoe vas
I have compiled a kernel from source for the htc evo 4g. I get successfully the zImage. So, when i build the whole tree, i use the zImage as kernel instead of the prebuilt kernel. However when i build the whole android tree, i get the following error: out/target/product/supersonic/boot.img tota

[android-kernel] Enable and locate module (androidx86, module openvswitch.ko)

2014-05-12 Thread zoe vas
Hello, I want to install android on x86 architecture. So i compiled the android-x86 . I want to have the openvswitch.ko in the kernel. Therefore, i modified the file .config at the top source tree of the kernel source code. Precisely, i changed the # C