platform_build/target
David 'Digit' Turner c7e3877dad emulator: Build emulator platform images as ARMv7-A
Backport from AOSP master.

Now that the emulator supports proper ARMv7 emulation, switch to
building all emulator-specific platform images using this instruction
set, in order to benefit from the noticeable speed boost provided by
Thumb-2 instructions.

Note that we don't build with NEON support because emulated NEON
instructions are currently slow, though they work.

IMPORTANT: You need to have the following emulator patch in your tree
           in order to start these platform builds easily:

           https://review.source.android.com//#change,23798

Otherwise, the alternative is to do these things:

   1/ Telling the emulator to emulate an ARMv7-A CPU, instead of
      an ARMv5TE one. This is normally done with "-qemu cortex-a8"

   2/ Using an ARMv7-A capable kernel image, which is available and
      usable with -kernel prebuilt/android-arm/kernel-qemu-armv7

Note that the emulator has a special hack that automatically enables
1/ if 2/ is being used (i.e. if the kernel image name ends with -armv7,
then emulate an ARMv7-A CPU automatically).

So in reality, only 2/ is required.

Change-Id: Id3ac7cdbda892e519af98aff1f02136f344406b8
Orig-Change-Id: I5c0245ba5e6a2bc34d0d49b2c024fffd317a5eed
2011-07-07 23:46:50 +02:00
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board emulator: Build emulator platform images as ARMv7-A 2011-07-07 23:46:50 +02:00
product sdk: Add pc-bios files for IA qemu emulator 2011-07-07 03:45:57 +02:00