Hi Jacco. > Hmm, I have never actually build an rpi kernel. As a good lazy person I > always copy the images from github :)
Haha. Lazy SOB :D ;) > and on top of that, I also have not cross complied anything. All has > been build on an actual ARM. Building a kernel or a Pi. No way :-D its like hours. On my laptop it takes 5 min. cross compiling :) > So the verification questions are: > - you do use the raspberry pi's source tree? > (https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux) Yes I have tried https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/linux/kernel/building.md > - and you start with their config file (bcmrpi_defconfig or > bcm2709_defconfig) Also that. > Recently I saw that there is a tool to make a kernel.img from an zImage: > https://github.com/raspberrypi/tools/tree/master/mkimage Haven't tried that. > and lastly, for my curiousity: what are you trying to achieve? Just want to be able to do it myself. Also I had to compile some wifi dongle drivers myself. Also I want to try making minimal kernel stripped down to the hw in a Pi. > A hint from Gordan I got som time ago is to look at the kernel srpm for > pidora. IIRC, they also build their own kernels. the SPEC file should > thus be good documentation on how to build such a kernel (bar the cross > compiling) Ah, maybe I should give that a try. BR Bjarne
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