Booting an Android custom kernel on a Pixel 3a for QMI debugging

As you might know I'm not much of an Android user (let alone developer) but in order to figure out how something low level works you sometimes need to peek at how vendor kernels handles this. For that it is often useful to add additional debugging. One such case is QMI communication going on in Qualcomm SOCs. Joel Selvaraj wrote some nice tooling for this. To make use of this a rooted device and a…