Mediatek X20 Board Compile

Products Support MediaTek-X20
#1

After you download all the code source, you can build the X20-Board images.

  1. Set up environment
    $ source build/envsetup.sh

  2. Choose a target
    $ lunch full_amt6796_64_open-eng

  3. Build the code
    $ make -j8
    (Build everything with make. GNU make can handle parallel tasks with a -jN argument, and it’s common to use a number of tasks N that’s between 1 and 2 times the number of hardware threads on the computer being used for the build. For example, on a dual-E5520 machine (2 CPUs, 4 cores per CPU, 2 threads per core), the fastest builds are made with commands between make -j16 and make -j32.)

or make one by one manually
$ make pl -j8
$ make lk -j8
$ make kernel -j8
$ make bootimage -j8
$ make systemimage -j8
(Note that, the Android OS for x20 96Boards is open source, but excluding HAL part, and the preloader part.
So, there is no need to execute “$ make pl -j8”.)

  1. Images in the out directory(\out\target\product\amt6797_64_oam)
    boot.img
    cache.img
    lk.bin
    logo.bin
    MT6797_Android_scatter.txt
    PGPT
    preloader_amt6797_64_open.bin
    recovery.img
    system.img
    tinysys-scp.bin
    trustzone.bin
    userdata.img
Unknown option errors in make kernel process
#2

Thanks for the write up. We’ll have to see if we can get that information somewhere more prominent.

@swrobertw: Should this sort of thing be slotted into the docs for the board somewhere? To me, this seems more like docs than FAQ material.

#3

@lowkeyway
In 2nd step, I cannot find combo option full_amt6796_64_open-eng for lunch.

FYI I downloaded aosp by doing repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest2 -b android-6.0.0_r1 followed by repo sync. I couldn’t understand what to do with SLA source at https://builds.96boards.org/releases/helio-x20/mediatek/aosp/16.07/sla.tar.gz. I simply copied vendor folder from SLA to aosp root directory.
What else need to be done? Am I missing any source?

Thanks,
Shailesh

#4

Hi Shailesh

Do you have copy the device folder to the aosp root dircetory? The lunch combo is decided by the device folder.

Thanks.

#5

Hi Ekko,

Thank you for your response.
When I look into into device folder of aosp it has below folders:
asus, common, generic, google, htc, lge, moto, sample.
I believe for this dev board there should be additional different device folder that’s of amt6797?
My question is from where I get this device specific source?
SLA folder doesn’t have device source.
Simply building aosp with different lunch option won’t work for this board right?

Thanks,
Shailesh

#6

Hi Shailesh:

In the SLA folder, there are device folder,vendor folder etc. Please copy this folder’s contents to the AOSP corresponding folder.

For example, copy the sla/device/amt folder to the aosp/device.

Thanks.

Unknown option errors in make kernel process
#7

My bad!
Device folder was missing from my SLA folder, only vendor and prebuilt folder was present.
I re-downloaded SLA and merged device and vendor folder.
Now I can see appropriate lunch option.

Thanks,
Shailesh

#8

Hi Ekko,

I am getting below error after executing make clean & make -j4.

make: *** No rule to make target ‘out/target/product/amt6797_64_open/kernel’, needed by ‘out/target/product/amt6797_64_open/boot.img’. Stop.
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs…
Notice file: external/zlib/NOTICE – out/host/linux-x86/obj/NOTICE_FILES/src//bin/minigzip.txt

make failed to build some targets (04:03 (mm:ss))

Looks like some makefile is missing? FYI I have overwritten any local changes I may have in aosp and kernel by using repo and git commands. What could be wrong?

Thanks,
Shailesh

#9

Hi Shailesh

From the error information, we can see there is no target when make the kernel. Please check whether the kernel-3.18 folder is coyied to aosp

Thanks

#10

Hi,

I am new to this platform, I am facing the same issue too. The folder kernel-3.18 exists in aosp but still I am getting the following error,

make: *** No rule to make target ‘out/target/product/amt6797_64_open/kernel’, needed by ‘out/target/product/amt6797_64_open/boot.img’. Stop.
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs…
Notice file: external/zlib/NOTICE – out/host/linux-x86/obj/NOTICE_FILES/src//bin/minigzip.txt

Do I need to clone kernel from a different repo?

Thanks a lot!

Regards
Anusha