| This is source release of the Android emulator. simply run the "build-emulator.sh" script to |
| generate a statically linked "emulator" binary in the current directory. |
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| you can also use the "--target=<path>" option to install the executable into a different location, |
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| At the moment, only Linux and Mac OS X are supported. |
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| This emulator is probably not usable without other support files provided by the Android project, |
| like a specific kernel image, ramdisk, system and user disk images. Please go to the Android web |
| site for more details. |
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| This emulator is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2, which can be |
| found in the file "qemu/COPYING". |
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| it is based on QEMU 0.8.2 with many changes used to support the following features: |
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| - additionnal hardware support for some Android reference boards. |
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| - various OS-X related patches to make everything compile cleanly with GCC 4.1 and |
| beyond. this includes better support for the Mach-O binary format |
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| - support for instruction-level profiling and data cache simulation. this allows the |
| emulator to generate "profile" files that can later be analyzed with external tools |
| to provide accurate information about what's happening in the system |
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| - changes in the dynamic code generators, mainly to support concurrent generators in |
| a single binary (this allows us to use different generators for profiling and |
| non-profiling modes, and switch between them dynamically at runtime when needed) |
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| - support for network throttling and latency simulation, used to better emulate the |
| network conditions of radio networks. |
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| - a new graphical user interface capable of displaying and rotating "device skins" |
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| - an optional (and disabled by default) "polling" runtime mode that doesn't use |
| SIGALRM signals to implement timers. this makes for much better timing accuracy |
| when using "old" emukated Linux kernels, at the cost of using 100% CPU, even when |
| the guest system is idle. This is now disabled since Linux 2.6.21 and beyond use |
| "dynamic ticks" that make this mode un-necessary for Android. |
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| it also uses a patched version of LibSDL-1.2.15. |
