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Build AOSP for ROCK960 - 96Boards

Build AOSP for ROCK960

Build environment setup

Recommend build host is Ubuntu 16.04 64bit, for other hosts, refer official Android documents Establishing a Build Environment.

$ mkdir -p ~/bin
$ wget 'https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo' -P ~/bin
$ chmod +x ~/bin/repo

Android’s source code primarily consists of Java, C++, and XML files. To compile the source code, you’ll need to install OpenJDK 8, GNU C and C++ compilers, XML parsing libraries, ImageMagick, and several other related packages.

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk android-tools-adb bc bison build-essential curl flex g++-multilib gcc-multilib gnupg gperf imagemagick lib32ncurses5-dev lib32readline-dev lib32z1-dev libesd0-dev liblz4-tool libncurses5-dev libsdl1.2-dev libssl-dev libwxgtk3.0-dev libxml2 libxml2-utils lzop pngcrush rsync schedtool squashfs-tools xsltproc yasm zip zlib1g-dev

Configure the JAVA environment

$ export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
$ export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
$ export CLASSPATH=.:$JAVA_HOME/lib:$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar

Download source code

$ mkdir rock960-android
$ cd rock960-android

Then run:

$ ~/bin/repo init -u https://github.com/96rocks/manifests.git -b rk3399-all-7.1 -m rk3399_n_all_release.xml
$ repo sync -j$(nproc) -c

It might take quite a bit of time to fetch the entire AOSP source code(around 86G)!

Build u-boot

$ cd u-boot
# rock960 model ab
$ ./make.sh rock960-ab-rk3399
# rock960 model c 
$ ./make.sh rock960-c-rk3399
$ cd ..

The generated images are rk3399_loader_v_xxx.bin and uboot.img and idbloader.img

Building kernel

$ cd kernel
$ make rockchip_defconfig
# rock960 model ab
$ make rk3399-rock960-model-ab.img -j$(nproc)
# rock960 model c
$ make rk3399-rock960-model-c.img -j$(nproc)
$ cd ..

The generated images are kernel.img and resource.img:

  • kernel.img, kernel with rkcrc checksum
  • resource.img, contains dtb and boot logo, Rockchip format resource package

Building AOSP

$ source build/envsetup.sh
$ lunch rk3399_all-userdebug
$ make -j$(nproc)

It takes a long time, take a break and wait…

Package images

$ ln -s RKTools/linux/Linux_Pack_Firmware/rockdev/ rockdev
$ ./mkimage.sh

The generated images under rockdev/Image-rk3399_all are

boot.img    MiniLoaderAll.bin  parameter.txt        pcba_whole_misc.img  resource.img  trust.img
kernel.img  misc.img           pcba_small_misc.img  recovery.img         system.img    uboot.img

They can be flashed with fastboot or Rockchip upgrade_tool.

Generate rkupdate images

Pack all partitions into one image.

$ cd rockdev
$ ln -s Image-rk3399_all Image
$ ./mkupdate.sh
Start to make update.img...
Android Firmware Package Tool v1.62
------ PACKAGE ------
Add file: ./package-file
Add file: ./Image/MiniLoaderAll.bin
Add file: ./Image/parameter.txt
Add file: ./Image/trust.img
Add file: ./Image/uboot.img
Add file: ./Image/misc.img
Add file: ./Image/resource.img
Add file: ./Image/kernel.img
Add file: ./Image/boot.img
Add file: ./Image/recovery.img
Add file: ./Image/system.img
Add CRC...
Make firmware OK!
------ OK ------
********RKImageMaker ver 1.63********
Generating new image, please wait...
Writing head info...
Writing boot file...
Writing firmware...
Generating MD5 data...
MD5 data generated successfully!
New image generated successfully!
Making update.img OK.

update.img is the packed image with all partitions.

Generate gpt images

Pack all partitions into one gpt image.

$ cd rockdev
$ ./android-gpt.sh
IMAGE_LENGTH:7083107
simg2img system.img
idbloader       64              16383           8.000000       MB
Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance.
uboot           16384           24575           4.000000       MB
trust           24576           32767           4.000000       MB
misc            32768           40959           4.000000       MB
resource        40960           73727           16.000000      MB
kernel          73728           122879          24.000000      MB
boot            122880          188415          32.000000      MB
recovery        188416          253951          32.000000      MB
backup          253952          483327          112.000000     MB
cache           483328          745471          128.000000     MB
system          745472          7036927         3072.000000    MB
metadata        7036928         7069695         16.000000      MB
verity_mode     7069696         7069759         0.031200       MB
reserved        7069760         7077951         4.000000       MB
Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance.
frp             7077952         7078975         0.500000       MB
Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance.
userdata        7078976         7078975         0.000000       MB
Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance.

Will be generated Image/gpt.img

Proceed to Installation Instructions