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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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Goldfish serial port

Android emulator has its own implementation of a virtual serial port. It always reserves the first two virtual serial ports:

  • The first one is used to receive kernel messages. This is done by adding the console=ttyS0 parameter to the kernel command line.
  • The second one is used to set up the legacy qemud channel, used on older Android platform revisions. This is done by adding android.qemud=ttyS1 on the kernel command line. The qemud channel is implemented as a Linux daemon process used as a channel between the guest and emulator. In the latest emulator version, a QEMU pipe is used instead of qemud.

The following table defines goldfish serial port registers:

Offset

Name

Abstract

0x00

PUT_CHAR

W: Write ...

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ISBN: 9781787125360