[Toybox] Android Testing

[Rob Landley]

And permission to move the discussion on-list received. :)

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Subject: Re: Android Testing
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 13:24:06 -0600
From: Rob Landley <rob at landley.net>
To: Trevor Drake <trevd1234 at gmail.com>

On 03/01/2015 12:39 PM, Trevor Drake wrote:
> Hi Rob
> 
> I was reading the toybox list and blog posts about setting up an
> Android Bionic test environment. I note you encountered the behemoth
> that is the Andriod code base.

Yes I did. :)

> Obviously you don't need everything to create a simple test shell
> environment but figuring out the who, what, where and why's is not an
> insignificant task.
> Especially given the other (slightly less, but still weighty )
> behemoth that is the build system.
> 
> Anywho this sort of motivated me to setup a tiny-tiny android target
> building environment based off of the Android Build System.

Ooh!

I've been meaning to do this for my Aboriginal Linux project.

> Right now it builds it all into a 2MB ramdisk and I'm just figuring
> out how to get some useful debug out from a standard qemu-system-* so
> I can test the boot.
> I'll probably end up booting it on my bare metal x86_64 to test but I
> thought I let you know what I'm doing as It can probably save you the
> learning curve of the build system
> layout.
> 
> https://github.com/trevd/android_vendor_toybox
> 
> Finally If toybox could use someone with a bit of Android platform
> knowledge and some spare-time then I could be "that guy".
> I've become a bit of a pathological committer to the AOSP so my face
> is already known around those parts to, so to speak.

Yes, I'm very interested.

Do you mind if I post a public reply to this message to the toybox
mailing list?

> https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/q/owner:%22Trevor+Drake+%253Ctrevordrake.gerrit%2540gmail.com%253E%22
> 
> I suppose that is all for now
> 
> Thanks
> Trevor Drake

Rob

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