Replicant

== Introduction ==

Many people bought many different phones, and some of them whish to help replicant and/or to port replicant to their phones or devices.

This guide will show what was done for the htc dream, so these people can understand the process better.

When talking about porting, this page talks about re-using existing product definitions. You will not learn how to

build Android for a device not currently supported by Android. Instead, you will learn how to build a version of

[Cyanogenmod http://www.cyanogenmod.com/] without proprietary parts.

To gain more insight in the Android build system, refer to [http://source.android.com/porting/build_system.html Android Build System documentation] which is part of

[http://source.android.com/porting/ Android Platform Developer's Guide]. You should find an answer there if you have any questions about the Makefiles referenced in this document.

== Terminology ==

The RIL is the radio interface library, that is to say, a library that talks to the modem, usually (but not always) trough AT commands.

Basically the modem runs on a separate CPU,and there is some sort of communication needed between the main CPU and the modem CPU to make telephony work. For instance, the modem must tell you when you've got a call, and you must tell the modem that you want to call someone.

TODO: point to 0707 standard or newer

== Help with source code ==

Keep in mind that on most devices, the full source code of the kernel is released.

However, some userspace libraries, or dlopened libraries (libraries loaded at runtime after the application started) are proprietary software,

so if you're porting to a new CPU/SOC keep in mind that you have the source code to the kernel interfaces.

That can help a lot, and sometimes there is even some sort of documentation in the headers.

== Build the source ==

The first thing to do is to download the replicant sources:

[wiki:BuildDream] can be used as a reference: download and build the sources for your device.

Let's say the user has a HTC Wildfire. It is useful to know the codename of the device in question, which is "Buzz" in case

of the Wildfire.

You need to configure the build tree for our device. By default, a generic image

for the Android emulator will be built. 

In [wiki:BuildDream], you would use the following command to set up the build:

{{{

lunch cyanogen_dream_sapphire-eng 

}}}

Now, since you are not building for the HTC dream, you need to identify the right command that corresponds to your device.

In order to do that, run the following command and look at its output.

{{{

$ source build/envsetup.sh

including device/geeksphone/one/vendorsetup.sh

including device/htc/ace/vendorsetup.sh

including device/htc/bravoc/vendorsetup.sh

including device/htc/bravo/vendorsetup.sh

including device/htc/buzz/vendorsetup.sh

including device/htc/glacier/vendorsetup.sh

including device/htc/heroc/vendorsetup.sh

including device/htc/inc/vendorsetup.sh

including device/htc/legend/vendorsetup.sh

including device/htc/liberty/vendorsetup.sh

including device/htc/supersonic/vendorsetup.sh

including device/htc/vision/vendorsetup.sh

including device/motorola/sholes/vendorsetup.sh

including device/nvidia/harmony/vendorsetup.sh

including vendor/cyanogen/vendorsetup.sh

}}}

The output include the list of supported (by cyanogenmod) devices.

For instance if you have the Wildfire (codename 'buzz') phone do:

{{{

$ cat device/htc/buzz/vendorsetup.sh 

#

# Copyright (C) 2008 The Android Open Source Project

#

# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

# You may obtain a copy of the License at

#

#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

#

# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

# limitations under the License.

#

# This file is executed by build/envsetup.sh, and can use anything

# defined in envsetup.sh.

#

# In particular, you can add lunch options with the add_lunch_combo

# function: add_lunch_combo generic-eng

add_lunch_combo generic_buzz-eng

}}}

Note that the developper is supposed to know the code of his device, that is to say that the htc wildfire correspond to the "buzz" codename.

then instead of typing that:

{{{

lunch cyanogen_dream_sapphire-eng 

}}}

type what corresponds to your device:

{{{

lunch cyanogen_buzz-eng

}}}

Note that "cyanogen" was substituted for "generic" in the string. The build must use the Cyanogen vendor instead of the "generic" vendor

to avoid build failure due to missing code overlays. If you're really curious about the correct string, see vendor/cyanogen/vendorsetup.sh.

Then build the source, backup what's on your device, including the operating system, and flash the new replicant image.

Then test what works and what doesn't.

The images are located in 

{{{

out/target/product/dream_sapphire

}}}

in the case of the HTC Dream. You need to look in the path that corresponds to your device.

== Trying free replacements ==

The source code you just built contains some free replacements for the proprietary

libraries shipped by your phone vendor with the default firmware.

A list of proprietary libraries is available in

{{{

device/htc/dream_sapphire/extract-files.sh

}}}

Note: don't run this file, just look at it. If you run it, the proprietary files will be copied from your phone into the build tree. A build containing proprietary files would put you and

your users at risk. Additionally, it is illegal to redistribute such build, because the libraries are not redistributable(the copyright owner didn't allow you to redistribute them).

=== RIL test ===

I will take the example of how to use the free RIL (Radio Interface Library) to see if it works fine without modifications:

The proprietary RIL library (which you don't have in the phone) location is found looking at the extract-files.sh

here's a part of extract-files.sh:

{{{

adb pull /system/lib/libhtc_ril.so ../../../vendor/htc/$DEVICE/proprietary/libhtc_ril.so

}}}

Note: don't run this command, just look at it. If you run it, the proprietary files will be copied from your phone into the build tree. A build containing proprietary files would put you and

your users at risk. Additionally, it is illegal to redistribute such build, because the libraries are not redistributable(the copyright owner didn't allow you to redistribute them).

So looking at the above line the proprietary RIL is located here on the phone:

{{{

/system/lib/libhtc_ril.so

}}}

while the free ril is located here (known fact):

{{{

/system/lib/libreference-ril.so

}}}

In order to test the free RIL you could be tempted to do that:

{{{

# ./adb remount

# ./adb shell

mv /system/lib/libreference-ril.so /system/lib/libhtc_ril.so

}}}

But that wouldn't work as it wouldn't be using the right serial port, the correct way to try that is to use getprop/setprop:

{{{

# ./adb shell

# setprop

usage: setprop <key> <value>

}}}

Here's how it looks on a working replicant on the HTC Dream:

{{{

# ./adb shell

# getprop | grep ril

[ro.ril.hsxpa]: [2]

[ro.ril.gprsclass]: [10]

[rild.libpath]: [/system/lib/libreference-ril.so]

[rild.libargs]: [-d/dev/smd0]

[init.svc.ril-daemon]: [running]

[ro.ril.def.agps.mode]: [2]

[gsm.version.ril-impl]: [android reference-ril 1.0]

}}}

 * /dev/smd0 is the (emulated) serial port

 * /system/lib/libreference-ril.so is where to look for the RIL hardware specific library 

Then change the following properties and reboot:

{{{

./adb shell reboot

}}}

Then try the reference RIL.

== Replacing proprietary libraries for real ==

On the HTC Dream the following proprietary libraries were replaced:

(Refer to [wiki:ProprietaryHtcDreamLibsReplacement] for more up to date details(or fix it if it's less recent))

The first thing you will have to do is to modify the build system.

The key thing to do is to change 

=== RIL ===

If the RIL you previously tried works fine, why not switching to it...directly in the build system.

Here's the diff between A working RIL and a non-working RIL for the htcdream:

{{{

android_device_htc_dream_sapphire$ git diff 5593d2899203ec378c306701788f1c43af9a6935 -- full_dream_sapphire.mk

diff --git a/full_dream_sapphire.mk b/full_dream_sapphire.mk

index 9ec7feb..eb1b956 100644

--- a/full_dream_sapphire.mk

+++ b/full_dream_sapphire.mk

@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ PRODUCT_PROPERTY_OVERRIDES := \

     ro.media.dec.jpeg.memcap=10000000

 PRODUCT_PROPERTY_OVERRIDES += \

-    rild.libpath=/system/lib/libhtc_ril.so \

+    rild.libpath=/system/lib/libreference-ril.so \

+    rild.libargs=-d/dev/smd0 \

     wifi.interface=tiwlan0

 # Time between scans in seconds. Keep it high to minimize battery drain.

}}}

Note that full_dream_sapphire.mk is located here:

{{{

device/htc/dream_sapphire/full_dream_sapphire.mk

}}}

The diff is self-explanatory and how to do the change is left as an exercise to the reader.

In case the RIL need to be modified the sources are in :

{{{

hardware/ril/reference-ril

}}}

They are written in C.

=== Audio libraries ===

On the HTC dream the audio libraries were modified.

If your device is an msm7k "CPU" (in reality it's called a SOC, or system on a chip), it already contain the routing fix. Else I will analyse the following commit to give hints on how to modify an audio library:

{{{

commit e0b55a19b2fc004915503ebdfd7c4c02c4264611

Author: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@no-log.org>

Date:   Thu Dec 23 16:49:35 2010 +0100

    libaudio: AudioHardware: don't depend on the proprietary libhtc_acoustic.so for routing

    /system/lib/libhtc_acoustic.so is proprietary(and not redistributable),

      so we don't depend on it, but still we want audio routing

    This commit was inspired from a previous commit I made(for replicant 1.5):

      http://gitorious.org/replicant/msm7k/commit/6d13023d634e54814ecc74b22f77de27f1b8ac2c

    Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@no-log.org>

diff --git a/libaudio/AudioHardware.cpp b/libaudio/AudioHardware.cpp

index 78b6a3e..af63e5a 100644

--- a/libaudio/AudioHardware.cpp

+++ b/libaudio/AudioHardware.cpp

@@ -43,6 +43,74 @@ const uint32_t AudioHardware::inputSamplingRates[] = {

         8000, 11025, 12000, 16000, 22050, 24000, 32000, 44100, 48000

 };

 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

+static int snd_get_endpoint(int cnt,msm_snd_endpoint * ept){

+     int fd;

+     int status;

+     fd = open("/dev/msm_snd",O_RDWR);

+     if (fd < 0) {

+	  LOGE("Cannot open msm_snd device");

+	  close(fd);

+	  return -1;

+     }

+     status = ioctl(fd,SND_GET_ENDPOINT, ept);

+     close(fd);

+     return status;

+}

+

+static int snd_get_num(){

+     int fd;

+     int status;

+     int mNumSndEndpoints;

+     fd = open("/dev/msm_snd",O_RDWR);

+     if (fd < 0) {

+	  LOGE("Cannot open msm_snd device");

+	  return -1;

+     }

+

+     if(ioctl(fd,SND_GET_NUM_ENDPOINTS,&mNumSndEndpoints)<0 ) {

+	  LOGE("get number of endpoints error");

+	  close(fd);

+	  return -1;

+     }

+     close(fd);

+     return mNumSndEndpoints;

+}

+

+static int msm72xx_enable_audpp (uint16_t enable_mask)

+{

+    int fd;

+

+

+    fd = open ("/dev/msm_pcm_ctl", O_RDWR);

+    if (fd < 0) {

+        LOGE ("Cannot open audio device");

+        return -1;

+    }

+

+    if (enable_mask & ADRC_ENABLE) {

+        enable_mask &= ~ADRC_ENABLE;

+    }

+    if (enable_mask & EQ_ENABLE) {

+        enable_mask &= ~EQ_ENABLE;

+    }

+    if (enable_mask & RX_IIR_ENABLE) {

+        enable_mask &= ~RX_IIR_ENABLE;

+    }

+

+    printf ("msm72xx_enable_audpp: 0x%04x", enable_mask);

+    if (ioctl (fd, AUDIO_ENABLE_AUDPP, &enable_mask) < 0) {

+	LOGE ("enable audpp error");

+	close (fd);

+	return -1;

+    }

+

+    close (fd);

+    return 0;

+}

+

+static int set_acoustic_parameters(){

+     return 0;

+}

 AudioHardware::AudioHardware() :

     mInit(false), mMicMute(true), mBluetoothNrec(true), mBluetoothId(0),

@@ -63,38 +131,10 @@ AudioHardware::AudioHardware() :

     SND_DEVICE_BT_EC_OFF(-1)

 {

-    int (*snd_get_num)();

-    int (*snd_get_endpoint)(int, msm_snd_endpoint *);

-    int (*set_acoustic_parameters)();

-

     struct msm_snd_endpoint *ept;

-    acoustic = ::dlopen("/system/lib/libhtc_acoustic.so", RTLD_NOW);

-    if (acoustic == NULL ) {

-        LOGE("Could not open libhtc_acoustic.so");

-        /* this is not really an error on non-htc devices... */

-        mNumSndEndpoints = 0;

-        mInit = true;

-        return;

-    }

-

-    set_acoustic_parameters = (int (*)(void))::dlsym(acoustic, "set_acoustic_parameters");

-    if ((*set_acoustic_parameters) == 0 ) {

-        LOGE("Could not open set_acoustic_parameters()");

-        return;

-    }

-

-    int rc = set_acoustic_parameters();

-    if (rc < 0) {

-        LOGE("Could not set acoustic parameters to share memory: %d", rc);

-//        return;

-    }

-

-    snd_get_num = (int (*)(void))::dlsym(acoustic, "snd_get_num_endpoints");

-    if ((*snd_get_num) == 0 ) {

-        LOGE("Could not open snd_get_num()");

-//        return;

-    }

+    LOGI("Not using the proprietary libhtc_acoustic library");

+    mInit = true;

     mNumSndEndpoints = snd_get_num();

     LOGD("mNumSndEndpoints = %d", mNumSndEndpoints);

@@ -102,11 +142,6 @@ AudioHardware::AudioHardware() :

     mInit = true;

     LOGV("constructed %d SND endpoints)", mNumSndEndpoints);

     ept = mSndEndpoints;

-    snd_get_endpoint = (int (*)(int, msm_snd_endpoint *))::dlsym(acoustic, "snd_get_endpoint");

-    if ((*snd_get_endpoint) == 0 ) {

-        LOGE("Could not open snd_get_endpoint()");

-        return;

-    }

     for (int cnt = 0; cnt < mNumSndEndpoints; cnt++, ept++) {

         ept->id = cnt;

@@ -488,17 +523,14 @@ status_t AudioHardware::doAudioRouteOrMute(uint32_t device)

                               mMode != AudioSystem::MODE_IN_CALL, mMicMute);

 }

+

+

 status_t AudioHardware::doRouting()

 {

-    /* currently this code doesn't work without the htc libacoustic */

-    if (!acoustic)

-        return 0;

     Mutex::Autolock lock(mLock);

     uint32_t outputDevices = mOutput->devices();

     status_t ret = NO_ERROR;

-    int (*msm72xx_enable_audpp)(int);

-    msm72xx_enable_audpp = (int (*)(int))::dlsym(acoustic, "msm72xx_enable_audpp");

     int audProcess = (ADRC_DISABLE | EQ_DISABLE | RX_IIR_DISABLE);

     AudioStreamInMSM72xx *input = getActiveInput_l();

     uint32_t inputDevice = (input == NULL) ? 0 : input->devices();

@@ -576,11 +608,7 @@ status_t AudioHardware::doRouting()

     if (sndDevice != -1 && sndDevice != mCurSndDevice) {

         ret = doAudioRouteOrMute(sndDevice);

-        if ((*msm72xx_enable_audpp) == 0 ) {

-            LOGE("Could not open msm72xx_enable_audpp()");

-        } else {

-            msm72xx_enable_audpp(audProcess);

-        }

+        msm72xx_enable_audpp(audProcess);

         mCurSndDevice = sndDevice;

     }

}}}

Note several things:

 * the routing was disabled, I had to re-enable it

 * I had to replace some non-existant functions, for that I used public playwav2.c source code that the author released to us under the apache 2.0 license.

 * I had nearly no knowledge of C++

 * it was easy

== Re-using source code ==

The previous source code re-used some public source code that was licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.

The ril will also re-use some public source code licensed under Apache 2.0.

That is the advised way to do it as it save some time and is easier to do, however proper credit must be attributed, at least in the commit message.

It is even advised to look at the public apache 2.0 source code of other rils libraries or components of android.

=== Ril ===

 * vilvord ril

 * openmoko (android on freerunner) ril

== Source organization and commit access ==

Until now we made some changes in the tree, but we want the changes to land upstream in replicant.

For instance let's say we modified only the ril path like in the ril section in 

{{{

device/htc/dream_sapphire/full_dream_sapphire.mk 

}}}

first we save our modifications:

{{{

cd device/htc/dream_sapphire/

git diff > git_diff.patch

}}}

then we find where is the root of the git repository we are in:

{{{

cd replicant-2.2 #top replicant directory where everything is in

cd .repo

cat manifest.xml

}}}

and we find that:

{{{

  <project path="device/htc/buzz" name="CyanogenMod/android_device_htc_buzz" remote="github" />

}}}

so...now our repository is in device/htc/buzz

We will now look where the source repository is:

{{{

cd device/htc/buzz

cd .git

cat config

}}}

We find that:

{{{

	url = git://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_device_htc_buzz.git

}}}

Then create a directory, not under the replicant-2.2 directory that will contain your repositories:

{{{

mkdir repo

cd repo

}}}

and clone the source:

{{{

git clone git://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_device_htc_buzz.git

cd android_device_htc_buzz

}}}

apply the previous patch:

{{{

git apply path/to/git_diff.patch

}}}

commit locally the result:

{{{

git commit -s

}}}

Note that the commit message should have the following format:

The first line should be a summary

Followed by a linebreak

And then the details explaining the commit

If you made an error writing the commit message do

{{{

git commit --amend

}}}

TODO: complete for sending the git patch(git format-patch -1,git send-email)

==== Pushing to replicant ====

TODO: git remote add+git push