UCM-iMX8M-Mini: Android: Building images
Contents
Prerequisites
repo
Make sure that the necessary packages have been installed.
sudo apt-get install xz-utils make flex lib32z1 zip curl
Install repo tool:
mkdir ~/Android/{bin,}
curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/Android/bin/repo
chmod a+x ~/bin/repo
export PATH=~/Android/bin:${PATH}
GCC
Download and unpack the tool chain under /opt folder for the A-profile architecture from: arm Developer GNU-A Downloads page
Recommended tool chain is gcc-arm-8.3-2019.03-x86_64-arm-eabi
export AARCH64_GCC_CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/gcc-arm-8.3-2019.03-x86_64-aarch64-elf/bin/aarch64-elf- export AARCH32_GCC_CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/gcc-arm-8.3-2019.03-x86_64-arm-eabi/bin/arm-eabi-
Getting Android source code
NXP sources
- Download the NXP Android sources from this location: imx-android-10.0.0_2.5.0.tar.gz
- Untar the image:
tar -C ~/Android -xf imx-android-10.0.0_2.5.0.tar.gz
- Download and setup source:
source ~/Android/imx-android-10.0.0_2.5.0/imx_android_setup.sh export A=$(pwd)
- Follow the instructions in the ~/Android/imx-android-10.0.0_2.5.0/README and make sure that the build environment is ready.
For more details found the NXP Android User Guide
CompuLab sources
- Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/compulab-yokneam/imx8mm-android-q10.git export C=$(pwd)/imx8mm-android-q10
Apply the patches
- U-boot
git -C ${A}/vendor/nxp-opensource/uboot-imx checkout -b compulab-imx8-android android-10.0.0_2.5.0
git -C ${A}/vendor/nxp-opensource/uboot-imx am ${C}/vendor/nxp-opensource/uboot-imx/*.patch
- ATF
git -C ${A}/vendor/nxp-opensource/arm-trusted-firmware/ checkout -b compulab-imx8-android android-10.0.0_2.5.0
git -C ${A}/vendor/nxp-opensource/arm-trusted-firmware am ${C}/vendor/nxp-opensource/arm-trusted-firmware/*.patch
- Kernel
git -C ${A}/vendor/nxp-opensource/kernel_imx checkout -b compulab-imx8-android android-10.0.0_2.5.0
git -C ${A}/vendor/nxp-opensource/kernel_imx am ${C}/vendor/nxp-opensource/kernel_imx/*.patch
- Board
git -C ${A}/device/fsl checkout -b compulab-imx8-android android-10.0.0_2.5.0
git -C ${A}/device/fsl am ${C}/device/fsl/*.patch
Set the machine configuration to ucm-imx8m-mini:
export MACHINE=ucm_imx8m_mini SOC=imx8mm
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Underscore in the MACHINE name is not a typo. |
Build Android
- Go to Android build directory and issue:
cd ${A}
source build/envsetup.sh
lunch ${MACHINE}-eng
./imx-make.sh -j16 2>&1 | tee build-log.txt
Create a bootable SD-card
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This sample is for an 8G-card. |
- Obtain a USB card reader and a micro-SD сard. Any commercially available micro-SD card of 16GB (or larger) may be used for the installation.
- Plug the USB SD card reader into the host PC. Insert the micro-SD сard into the сard reader. From now we assume the device name of the MMC/SD card on your Linux PC is /dev/sdX.
- Prepare the uSD card:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=16 of=/dev/sdX sudo partprobe /dev/sdX
- In the Android build directory issue the following commands:
export MACHINE=ucm_imx8m_mini SOC=imx8mm
cd out/target/product/${MACHINE}
sudo ./fsl-sdcard-partition.sh -c 14 -f ${SOC} /dev/sdX
What's next?
Boot using the resulting Android SD card as described here.
