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+Fork of https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/msm/ for my master thesis "Android Soft Root".
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+Relevant branches are android-msm-bullhead-3.10-nougat_kgdb_less_changes and android-msm-bullhead-3.10-nougat_klist.
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+An android-msm-bullhead-3.10-nougat_kgdb_less_changes build can be merged with the boot.img using abootimg.
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+For android-msm-bullhead-3.10-nougat_klist the best practice is to checkout and build the whole AOSP using the coresponding manifest from here: https://gitlab.cs.fau.de/Matombo/AndroidManifest
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