i2c-tools under Android

Published on May 27, 2011

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While working with a multi-touch display under Android recently, I had some questions about what data was being received from the touch screen, which is connected to our Nitrogen53 board over i2c.

My early debug steps involved instrumenting the kernel, but I really wanted the quicker cycle time of the i2c-tools package. It turns out that this was trivially easy to do. The i2c-tools package is very clean and the Android build system makes generating a makefile simple.

I simply copied my source tree into hardware/i2c-tools-3.0.2, added the following Android.mk, and it worked! The following is the content of Android.mk that I came up with by a quick scan of the Makefile.

LOCAL_PATH:= $(call my-dir)
include $(CLEAR_VARS)
LOCAL_MODULE_TAGS := eng
LOCAL_C_INCLUDES += $(LOCAL_PATH) $(LOCAL_PATH)/$(KERNEL_DIR)/include
LOCAL_SRC_FILES := tools/i2cbusses.c tools/util.c
LOCAL_MODULE := i2c-tools
include $(BUILD_STATIC_LIBRARY)
include $(CLEAR_VARS)
LOCAL_MODULE_TAGS := eng
LOCAL_SRC_FILES:=tools/i2cdetect.c
LOCAL_MODULE:=i2cdetect
LOCAL_CPPFLAGS += -DANDROID
LOCAL_SHARED_LIBRARIES:=libc
LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES := i2c-tools
LOCAL_C_INCLUDES += $(LOCAL_PATH) $(LOCAL_PATH)/$(KERNEL_DIR)/include
include $(BUILD_EXECUTABLE)
include $(CLEAR_VARS)
LOCAL_MODULE_TAGS := eng
LOCAL_SRC_FILES:=tools/i2cget.c
LOCAL_MODULE:=i2cget
LOCAL_CPPFLAGS += -DANDROID
LOCAL_SHARED_LIBRARIES:=libc
LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES := i2c-tools
LOCAL_C_INCLUDES += $(LOCAL_PATH) $(LOCAL_PATH)/$(KERNEL_DIR)/include
include $(BUILD_EXECUTABLE)
include $(CLEAR_VARS)
LOCAL_MODULE_TAGS := eng
LOCAL_SRC_FILES:=tools/i2cset.c
LOCAL_MODULE:=i2cset
LOCAL_CPPFLAGS += -DANDROID
LOCAL_SHARED_LIBRARIES:=libc
LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES := i2c-tools
LOCAL_C_INCLUDES += $(LOCAL_PATH) $(LOCAL_PATH)/$(KERNEL_DIR)/include
include $(BUILD_EXECUTABLE)
include $(CLEAR_VARS)
LOCAL_MODULE_TAGS := eng
LOCAL_SRC_FILES:=tools/i2cdump.c
LOCAL_MODULE:=i2cdump
LOCAL_CPPFLAGS += -DANDROID
LOCAL_SHARED_LIBRARIES:=libc
LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES := i2c-tools
LOCAL_C_INCLUDES += $(LOCAL_PATH) $(LOCAL_PATH)/$(KERNEL_DIR)/include
include $(BUILD_EXECUTABLE)