Preface

As the main target of the second period of my GSoC 2018 project, I have to take down Android build system and accomodating it into Portage, forming a modular building and updating mechanism. So, inevitably, I'll have to deal with the original AOSP build system (Lineage OS's is a …

Introduction

The Linux kernel is the most important component on any systems that are based on it, be it Gentoo Linux or Android. The user may want to tweak the kernel to enable functions that userspace utilities need (e.g. LVM, FUSE, Netfilter, etc.), so being able to tweak the …

Summary

This week was planned as the last week for the first (Preparation) and second (Gaining control of the system) parts in my GSoC 2018 proposal. I'm pleased to announce that I've successfully hit the target as planned: a video demonstration posted on Twitter can be watched here.

Reading and …

Preface

After successfully booting Gentoo on Nexus 6P in the previous article, we can move on to launching Android in LXC, which is the last mission in the first period of my GSoC 2018 project. This article documents the process to bring up Android successfully with most of its functions …

Preface

As we now have preinit and the crucial UART console available, we can start bringing up the real GNU/Linux system--Gentoo Linux in this case. This article will focus on the following topics:

• Filesystem structure and mounting procedure (in details)
• Launch sequence to bring up OpenRC
• Crafting a preinit …