emulator: Build emulator platform images as ARMv7-A
Backport from AOSP master.
Now that the emulator supports proper ARMv7 emulation, switch to
building all emulator-specific platform images using this instruction
set, in order to benefit from the noticeable speed boost provided by
Thumb-2 instructions.
Note that we don't build with NEON support because emulated NEON
instructions are currently slow, though they work.
IMPORTANT: You need to have the following emulator patch in your tree
in order to start these platform builds easily:
https://review.source.android.com//#change,23798
Otherwise, the alternative is to do these things:
1/ Telling the emulator to emulate an ARMv7-A CPU, instead of
an ARMv5TE one. This is normally done with "-qemu cortex-a8"
2/ Using an ARMv7-A capable kernel image, which is available and
usable with -kernel prebuilt/android-arm/kernel-qemu-armv7
Note that the emulator has a special hack that automatically enables
1/ if 2/ is being used (i.e. if the kernel image name ends with -armv7,
then emulate an ARMv7-A CPU automatically).
So in reality, only 2/ is required.
Change-Id: Id3ac7cdbda892e519af98aff1f02136f344406b8
Orig-Change-Id: I5c0245ba5e6a2bc34d0d49b2c024fffd317a5eed
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