Unable to Build Android on saber sd board with imxq

[chuck_ferguson]

When I build Android I get an error stating:

"ninja: error: 'vendor/nxp/linux_firmware-imx/firmware/vpu/vpu_fw_imx6d.bin', needed by out/target/product/sabresd_6dq/vendor/lib/firmware/vpu/vpu_fw_imx6d.bin', missing and no known rule to make it."

I am attempting to build Android from source for imx6q on a saber sd board. I have not made any mods to the android or the board. Everything is stock. I am using Ubuntu.

I have searched for solutions. On the yocto project the vpu firmware is proprietary and is downloaded after agreeing to license. I tried to download yocto but 'repo sync' fails due to timeout. I never get the point where I can build it to get to the license prompt. Timeout always occurs at same place, right after "Fetching project fsl-community-bap-base".

I really don't need the vpu for my project. I am investigating how to remove it from the Android build. I am a novice at building Android.

[Yuri]

Hello,

    Please try using the recent NXP Android release:

https://www.nxp.com/webapp/Download?colCode=IMX_O8.0.0_1.0.0_ANDROID_DOCS&Parent_nodeId=133769948107... 

Summary Page:

i.MX Software|NXP 

 Follow instructions and recommendations of "Android™ User's Guide" from the documentation

package. Note, the minimum recommended system requirements are as follows:
• 16 GB RAM
• 300 GB hard disk

  To build the Android source files, use a computer running the Linux OS. The Ubuntu 14.04 64bit version

and openjdk-8-jdk is the most tested environment for the Android Oreo 8.0 build.

Have a great day,

Yuri

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