Noisedroid/FAQ
Building[edit | edit source]
- Configure a x86_32 Ubuntu 8.10 or Debian 4.0 host with at least 20GB of disk space.
- download sources according to http://source.android.com/download, install needed packages, etc
- build for Dream (the internal name for G1) according to http://source.android.com/documentation/building-for-dream
- however, you probably want to use an up-to-date kernel branch instead of the the ancient 2.6.25 that the android.com local_manifest.xml refers to:
<project path="kernel" name="kernel/msm" revision="refs/heads/android-msm-2.6.27"/>
- this results in a build using a prebuilt kernel and wlan.ko from vendor/htc/dream/.
- after make completes you'll have a built tree in out/target/product/dream, and you can run
# fastboot flash boot boot.img # fastboot flash system system.img
Here's what I did to build my own kernel and wlan.ko:
cd mydroid d=$PWD
First, build the kernel. The android-msm-2.6.27 branch seems to work just fine. We're building for the msm platform using the mydroid/prebuilt/ 4.2.1 toolchain; the 4.3.1 toolchain doesn't seem to work.
cd kernel make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=$d/prebuilt/linux-x86/toolchain/arm-eabi-4.2.1/bin/arm-eabi- msm_defconfig make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=$d/prebuilt/linux-x86/toolchain/arm-eabi-4.2.1/bin/arm-eabi-
Once the kernel build completes without errors, we can build the horrifyingly complex TIWLAN driver. We don't need to set CROSS_COMPILE or ARCH, the system/wlan/ti/Makefile does that for us, but we do need to add the prebuilt toolchain to $PATH.
cd $d/system/wlan/ti/sta_dk_4_0_4_32 PATH=$d/prebuilt/linux-x86/toolchain/arm-eabi-4.2.1/bin:$PATH make KERNEL_DIR=$d/kernel
Finally, we can install the results into out/target/product/dream/ and rebuild boot.img (for the new kernel) and system.img (for the new wlan.ko). The makefiles don't have correct dependencies for the .img files, so we just delete them and let them get rebuilt.
cd $d cp kernel/arch/arm/boot/zImage out/target/product/dream/kernel cp system/wlan/ti/sta_dk_4_0_4_32/wlan.ko out/target/product/dream/system/lib/modules/wlan.ko rm out/target/product/dream/*.img make
Working with the G1[edit | edit source]
- TODO: how to root a retail G1
- http://www.gotontheinter.net/content/fastboot-cheat-sheet
There are two significant host apps for (ab)using the G1: fastboot and adb. Fastboot is used to write over USB to the G1's flash, for example to flash a complete system.img or replace the T-Mobile splash screen. adb gives you access to a debug root shell on the G1 with adb shell, and also "syslog" with adb logcat.
USB to Serial interface with the G1[edit | edit source]
It's possible to create a USB to serial interface cable (details here) to interact with the running phone and the boot loader(s).
According to this android-platform post the serial port is 115,200 8N1 at 2.8V TTL with the following pinout:
_____________ | A B C D E | \1 2 3 4 5 6| A: GND B: NC C: +DATA D: -DATA E: +5v 1: +Mic 2: +Right 3: Switch / Rx (2.8V, CMOS-TTL Level) / CABLE_IN2 4: GND / Tx (2.8V, CMOS-TTL Level) / CABLE_IN1 5: GND (Serial GND, 0 Ohms resistance between this and pin A) 6: +Left
!!! Fixed 10.10.09 : Rx & Tx reversed, because they were confused !!!