This chapter and the three chapter GIT usage has the connection, so, bar last chapter git basic usage to do well again, the concrete method is reads the net to check, here does not do the detailed step introduction.
This chapter is a bit of meaning, is the source of the download and compilation, can see, can tinker, this chapter describes the method, can be analogous to other. Android has been mainly the migration of the Linux kernel, the Linux migration is mainly Linux-powered porting, so we have to learn to take at least two environments, an Android, a Linux.
The first part of this chapter is the introduction of Android source code download and compilation, the latter part of the Linux kernel source download and compilation, the Linux kernel is much smaller than the Android 4g, whether it is Android or Linux source code, from the directory of files contained in what, What use is very important, although at this stage to understand the code in each file meaning or unrealistic, but the understanding is still possible.
In Android, the suffix name of the system file is. IMG, in the compilation process have to use the command can be viewed in books, there are unexpected words on the internet search.
Overall after reading these four chapters, understand the point we have to do is to transplant Android and Linux kernel, Android is the use of Linux kernel, full porting also need to have a certain understanding of the relationship between Android and Linux, to learn a lot of Ah, continue to look at the other bar.
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