tree: e9c56addc08492d9902dd0edc8f308dc402cf3d4 [path history] [tgz]
  1. assistant/
  2. attestation/
  3. audio/
  4. chromeos_strings_grd/
  5. components/
  6. constants/
  7. cryptohome/
  8. dbus/
  9. disks/
  10. geolocation/
  11. hugepage_text/
  12. ime/
  13. login/
  14. memory/
  15. network/
  16. policy/
  17. printing/
  18. process_proxy/
  19. profiles/
  20. resources/
  21. services/
  22. settings/
  23. strings/
  24. system/
  25. test/
  26. third_party/
  27. timezone/
  28. tools/
  29. tpm/
  30. BUILD.gn
  31. chromeos_export.h
  32. CHROMEOS_LKGM
  33. chromeos_strings.grd
  34. DEPS
  35. OWNERS
  36. README.md
  37. SECURITY_OWNERS
  38. typemaps.gni
chromeos/README.md

Chrome OS

This directory contains low-level support for Chrome running on Chrome OS. Many subdirectories contain Chrome-style C++ wrappers around operating system components.

For example, //chromeos/dbus contains wrappers around the D-Bus interfaces to system daemons like the network configuration manager (shill). Most other directories contain low-level utility code. For example, //chromeos/disks has utilities for mounting and unmounting disk volumes.

There are two exceptions:

  • //chromeos/services contains mojo services that were not considered sufficiently general to live in top-level //services. For example //chromeos/services/secure_channel bootstraps a secure communications channel to an Android phone over Bluetooth, enabling multi-device features like instant tethering.

  • //chromeos/components contains C++ components that were not considered sufficiently general to live in top-level //components. For example, //chromeos/components/account_manager manages the user's GAIA accounts, but is used as the backend for UI that only exists on Chrome OS devices.

Note, //chromeos does not contain any user-facing UI code, and hence it has “-ui” in its DEPS. The contents of //chromeos should also not depend on //chrome or //content.