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The objective of this project is to deliver a stable release of Android port for TI’s OMAP L 138 based HawkBoard.

Basic features supported in this release are:
Android Donut
Qwerty keyboard
Ethernet

Download Android Source

  1. Make sure you have a ~/bin directory in your home directory
    $ cd ~
    $ mkdir bin
    $ echo $PATH
  2. Download the repo script and make sure it is executable:
    $ curl https://android.git.kernel.org/repo >~/bin/repo
    $ chmod a+x ~/bin/repo
  3. Clone the source
    $ repo init -u git://gitorious.org/android-enablement/omap-l138-manifest.git
    $ repo sync
  4. Change the target to HawkBoard
    $ make TARGET_PRODUCT=hawkboard

Root file system creation

cd out/target/product/hawkboard
mkdir android_rfs
cp -r root/* android_rfs
cp -r system android_rfs
cd android_rfs
chmod -R 777 *
chown root.root *

Enabling Ethernet

Add the following in init.rc
# basic network init
setprop net.dns1 <primary-dns-server-ip

prepare tar file for android_rfs directory
uImage creation

cd <android_root_dir>/kernel
make ARCH=arm omapl138_hawkboard_android_defconfig
export toolchain path
make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-eabi- uImage

Host setup

nfs-server setup

sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server nfs-common portmap

Edit /etc/exports with the following line

/data/target *(rw,sync,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash)
sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart
tftpd server setup

sudo apt-get install tftpd-hpa
sudo /etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa restart

Extract RFS and uImage

untar root file system in /data/target
cd /data/target; chmod -R 777 *
copy the uImage to /var/lib/tftpboot
On Hawkboard

Execute the following commands in bootloader console to boot android on Hawkboard

setenv ipaddr <board-ip>
setenv serverip <nfs-server-ip>
setenv bootargs mem=128M console=ttyS2,115200n8 root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=<nfs-server-ip>:/data/target ip=<board-ip>::<gateway-ip>:<netmask>:hawkboard:eth0:off nolock,rsize=1024,wsize=1024 rootdelay=2 init=/init

tftpboot 0xc0700000 uImage
mw.l 0x01c14110 0x44442222 1
mw.l 0x01c14114 0x44400000 1
mw.l 0x01c14118 0x04604404 1
bootm 0xc0700000