rootfs_android directory

Dave McLaughlin
Apart from the compiler and tools to build Android on Linux, there are 3
tar files that come are supplied on the DVD and you extract these to create
3 directories. Below applies to the mini210.

The first is the Linux kernel and I can build this successfully.

The second is the Android-2.3.1 and again, this builds without any errors.

After Android is built, you run genrootfs.sh to build the rootfs_dir
directory in the Android-2.3.1 directory. This works but the rootfs_dir is
only around 24.9MB. Seems too small.

After this you use makeyaffs2image and I then get rootfs_android.img file
which is around 18MB which again is too small.

This leaves the third directory called rootfs_android that holds around
180MB of files etc. 

At no stage in the build does rootfs_android appear to get used and I was
wondering if anyone has any clue to its use?

I have not tried to use the image it builds because is way smaller than the
180MB file image that is supplied on the DVD.

I have however experimented with copying rootfs_android to rootfs_dir by
modifying the genrootfs.sh file and now after building I get a 182MB image.

I need to get clarification on this as nowhere on the internet can I find
out about this.

Cheers
Dave...