CyanogenMod

This guide will get you started on adapting CyanogenMod to a new Allwinner device

Prepare the Build Environment

 * NOTE: You only need to do these steps the first time you build. If you previously prepared your build environment, skip to creating your device tree.

Install the ADB

 * Install the Android SDK

Install the Build Packages
Install using the package manager of your choice:

For 32-bit & 64-bit systems:

For 64-bit only systems:
 * NOTE:  is no longer available for Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit, but should still build without issue.
 * NOTE:  is no longer available for Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit, but should still build without issue.

Create the Directories
You will need to set up some directories in your build environment.

To create them:

Install the Repository
Enter the following to download make executable the "repo" binary:
 * NOTE: You may need to reboot for these changes to take effect.
 * NOTE: You may need to reboot for these changes to take effect.
 * NOTE: You may need to reboot for these changes to take effect.

Now enter the following to initialize the repository:

Creating a basic new device tree
There is an example basic tree to support new Allwinner devices. It contains a convenience script to change most of the basic stuff:

With   being a single word, lowercase identifier (e.g. zatab),   being a mixed case, user-friendly name (e.g. ZaTab), and   being the user-friendly name of your vendor (e.g. ZaReason).

Once the naming is all set up, you might want to:
 * Adjust CWM recovery key mappings (see recovery_keys.c)
 * Make a kernel defconfig for your device (generally  _defconfig, it can be adjusted on BoardConfig.mk)
 * Adjust kernel modules to be loaded on boot, see init.sun4i.modules.rc
 * Adjust WiFi configuration, see BoardConfig.mk on device/allwinner/common/ for the configuration variables, and adjust them on your own BoardConfig.mk
 * Adjust proprietary files list, see proprietary-files.txt

Copy proprietary files
To copy the proprietary files, connect the device to the computer and ensure that ADB is working properly.

Fetch Prebuilts

 * NOTE: This only needs to be done when an update to the prebuilts is released. If you are-up-to date, you may skip to the next step.

Download the prebuilts which are needed by the build:

Configure Build & Compile
To build using your new device tree, issue

Install

 * 1) Copy your .zip file from ~/android/system/out/target/product/yourdevice/cm-XXXXX.zip to the root of the SD card.
 * Optional: Download Google Apps for CyanogenMod 9 and place it on the root of the SD card.
 * 1) Flash both of these .zip files from recovery.