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Embedded Programming with Android: Bringing Up an Android System from Scratch
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Embedded Programming with Android: Bringing Up an Android System from Scratch

by Roger Ye
August 2015
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
12h 18m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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9. U-Boot Porting

In Part I of this book, we discussed how to create applications directly on top of hardware—that is, bare metal applications. In Part II, we talk about a special bare metal application: U-Boot. In this chapter, we discuss porting U-Boot to the goldfish platform. Since QEMU includes a mini-bootloader, it can boot a Linux kernel directly. Consequently, no one has ported U-Boot to the goldfish platform. This workaround is not really a complete boot process, like the processes we would see in a real hardware environment.

In this chapter, we begin by building the U-Boot source code. We then discuss how to port U-Boot to the goldfish platform, working through this process step by step. By the end of this chapter, you should be able ...

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