Android System Programming

Creating x86emu device

After we check out the source code, we can look at how to create a new x86emu device in the $AOSP/device folder. The hierarchy in the device folder is in the vendor-name/device-name format. For example, the Nexus S from Samsung can be found in the samsung/crespo folder. The device name of Nexus S is crespo. We can create our device under a common folder, generic, as follows. The folder name for our device is generic/x86emu:

$ cd device/generic $ mkdir x86emu 

This is the project that we create in this chapter and you can find the source code at https://github.com/shugaoye/x86emu.git.

We will create a list of Makefiles in this folder to build the device. Refer to the build layers in the previous section. Here is a ...