大家都知道android是基于linux的kernel上的。android可以 运行在intel，高通，nvidia等硬件平台。但是涉及到一些GPU,显卡和一些设备的驱动问题，因为这些驱动都不是开源的，google位了兼容这些设备厂商的驱动源码，提出了硬件抽象层HAL的概念。HAL层对上为framework和native开发提供统一的API接口，为下层驱动的代码提供统一的调用接口。本文主要讲解HAL是如何实现的。

1.HAL的数据结构

 HAL的通用写法里面有两个重要的结构体：

1.1 hw_module_t 硬件模块结构体

typedef struct hw_module_t {
    /** tag must be initialized to HARDWARE_MODULE_TAG */
    uint32_t tag;

  
    uint16_t module_api_version;
#define version_major module_api_version
    /**
     * version_major/version_minor defines are supplied here for temporary
     * source code compatibility. They will be removed in the next version.
     * ALL clients must convert to the new version format.
     */

    /**
     * The API version of the HAL module interface. This is meant to
     * version the hw_module_t, hw_module_methods_t, and hw_device_t
     * structures and definitions.
     *
     * The HAL interface owns this field. Module users/implementations
     * must NOT rely on this value for version information.
     *
     * Presently, 0 is the only valid value.
     */
    uint16_t hal_api_version;
#define version_minor hal_api_version

    /** Identifier of module */
    const char *id;

    /** Name of this module */
    const char *name;

    /** Author/owner/implementor of the module */
    const char *author;

    /** Modules methods */
    struct hw_module_methods_t* methods;

    /** module's dso */
    void* dso;

    /** padding to 128 bytes, reserved for future use */
    uint32_t reserved[32-7];

} hw_module_t;

typedef struct hw_module_methods_t {
    /** Open a specific device */
    int (*open)(const struct hw_module_t* module, const char* id,
            struct hw_device_t** device);


} hw_module_methods_t;

1.2硬件设备结构体

typedef struct hw_device_t {
    /** tag must be initialized to HARDWARE_DEVICE_TAG */
    uint32_t tag;

    uint32_t version;


    /** reference to the module this device belongs to */
    struct hw_module_t* module;


    /** padding reserved for future use */
    uint32_t reserved[12];


    /** Close this device */
    int (*close)(struct hw_device_t* device);


} hw_device_t;

1.3 获取一个hw_model_t模块

HAL层提供一个方法用户获取一个model，进而同过open方法打开设备device

/**
 * Get the module info associated with a module by id.
 *
 * @return: 0 == success, <0 == error and *module == NULL
 */
int hw_get_module(const char *id, const struct hw_module_t **module);

const struct hw_module_t   HAL_MODULE_INFO_SYM={ ...};

用于在hw_get_modules通过解析so时，得到该全局变量。

2.硬件模块库的装载于解析
装载和解析有hw_get_module 完成，它会安按照一定的规则去查找so库，然后解析出全局变量名，得到硬件设备的open函数，最后通过参数返回一个device的指针给调用者。

2.1搜索so的规则;

/** Base path of the hal modules */
#define HAL_LIBRARY_PATH1 "/system/lib/hw"
#define HAL_LIBRARY_PATH2 "/vendor/lib/hw"

/**
 * There are a set of variant filename for modules. The form of the filename
 * is "<MODULE_ID>.variant.so" so for the led module the Dream variants 
 * of base "ro.product.board", "ro.board.platform" and "ro.arch" would be:
 *
 * led.trout.so
 * led.msm7k.so
 * led.ARMV6.so
 * led.default.so
 */

static const char *variant_keys[] = {
    "ro.hardware",  /* This goes first so that it can pick up a different
                       file on the emulator. */
    "ro.product.board",
    "ro.board.platform",
    "ro.arch"
};

2.2函数加载解析的过程

（1）调用hw_get_module,通过传给他一个module_id 字符串例如“camera”等。调用hw_get_module_by_class(id, NULL, module);

 （2）搜索对应的so并调用load去解析so

int hw_get_module_by_class(const char *class_id, const char *inst,
                           const struct hw_module_t **module)
{
    int status = -EINVAL;
    int i = 0;
    char prop[PATH_MAX] = {0};
    char path[PATH_MAX] = {0};
    char name[PATH_MAX] = {0};

    if (inst)
        snprintf(name, PATH_MAX, "%s.%s", class_id, inst);
    else
        strlcpy(name, class_id, PATH_MAX);

    /*
     * Here we rely on the fact that calling dlopen multiple times on
     * the same .so will simply increment a refcount (and not load
     * a new copy of the library).
     * We also assume that dlopen() is thread-safe.
     */

    /* Loop through the configuration variants looking for a module */
    for (i=0 ; i<HAL_VARIANT_KEYS_COUNT+1 ; i++) {
        if (i < HAL_VARIANT_KEYS_COUNT) {
            if (property_get(variant_keys[i], prop, NULL) == 0) {
                continue;
            }
            snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "%s/%s.%s.so",
                     HAL_LIBRARY_PATH2, name, prop);
            if (access(path, R_OK) == 0) break;

            snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "%s/%s.%s.so",
                     HAL_LIBRARY_PATH1, name, prop);
            if (access(path, R_OK) == 0) break;
        } else {
            snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "%s/%s.default.so",
                     HAL_LIBRARY_PATH2, name);
            if (access(path, R_OK) == 0) break;

            snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "%s/%s.default.so",
                     HAL_LIBRARY_PATH1, name);
            if (access(path, R_OK) == 0) break;
        }
    }

    status = -ENOENT;
    if (i < HAL_VARIANT_KEYS_COUNT+1) {
        /* load the module, if this fails, we're doomed, and we should not try
         * to load a different variant. */
        status = load(class_id, path, module);
    }

    return status;
}

/**
 * Load the file defined by the variant and if successful
 * return the dlopen handle and the hmi.
 * @return 0 = success, !0 = failure.
 */
static int load(const char *id,
        const char *path,
        const struct hw_module_t **pHmi)
{
    int status = -EINVAL;
    void *handle = NULL;
    struct hw_module_t *hmi = NULL;

    /*
     * load the symbols resolving undefined symbols before
     * dlopen returns. Since RTLD_GLOBAL is not or'd in with
     * RTLD_NOW the external symbols will not be global
     */
    handle = dlopen(path, RTLD_NOW);
    if (handle == NULL) {
        char const *err_str = dlerror();
        ALOGE("load: module=%s\n%s", path, err_str?err_str:"unknown");
        status = -EINVAL;
        goto done;
    }

    /* Get the address of the struct hal_module_info. */
    const char *sym = HAL_MODULE_INFO_SYM_AS_STR;
    hmi = (struct hw_module_t *)dlsym(handle, sym);
    if (hmi == NULL) {
        ALOGE("load: couldn't find symbol %s", sym);
        status = -EINVAL;
        goto done;
    }

    /* Check that the id matches */
    if (strcmp(id, hmi->id) != 0) {
        ALOGE("load: id=%s != hmi->id=%s", id, hmi->id);
        status = -EINVAL;
        goto done;
    }

    hmi->dso = handle;

    /* success */
    status = 0;

    done:
    if (status != 0) {
        hmi = NULL;
        if (handle != NULL) {
            dlclose(handle);
            handle = NULL;
        }
    } else {
        ALOGV("loaded HAL id=%s path=%s hmi=%p handle=%p",
                id, path, *pHmi, handle);
    }

    *pHmi = hmi;

    return status;
}