Hello all,

I am a completely newbie with the android platform and more interested in the internals than in developing applications. I have just downloaded the android-emulator, android-sdk, android-kernel and a generic linux kernel from kernel.org (same version as the android one).

I need to compile the kernel to support architectures like ARM and MIPS (I know that the kernel in th emulator is already compiled for ARM, but i want to do it myself). I have started to compile the android-emulator by running 'build_emulator' that easy!!!... the problem comes when i try to launch the emulator: SDL init failure. I copied the system files from the android sdk, that is inside tools/lib/ * to the same folder as the just compiled emulator and the command line: ./emulator -system lib/images

Could anyone help me?

My next milestones would be: . take a generic linux kernel, apply the patch compared with the android kernel and compile it for ARM, MIPS, and other . run the emulator with those kernels using the system.img and userdata.img files from android

Thanks all in advance.