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Android System Programming
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Android System Programming

by Roger Ye
May 2017
Beginner to intermediate
470 pages
10h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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Boot up process and device initialization

Since we use the Android-x86 kernel and HAL for x86vbox, we will further analyze about the start-up process of x86vbox in this section. From the analysis, we can understand how Android-x86 supports multiple devices using one codebase. You can review the two-stage start-up process that we discussed in Chapter 6, Debugging the Boot Up Process using a Customized ramdisk. We will work on a more detailed analysis on top of that introduction now.

The kernel of Android-x86 is different from the kernel that we used in Chapter 6, Debugging the Boot Up Process using a Customized ramdisk for emulators. The Android-x86 kernel does not have any idea about what hardware interfaces it needs to support, so it builds ...

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