Linux kernel 3.2.28 Kirkwood package

syong,

What is the size comparing to LZMA?

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bodhi,

uImage is much smaller for LZMA.

The reason I use gzip is that the build got `out of memory' for LZMA.

Here is what I have:

(%3)(10:44)(punk)/boot> ll
total 18344
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1178004 Mar 21 07:13 System.map-3.2.28-20130320-232852
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  105867 Mar 20 23:31 config-3.2.28-20130320-232852
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6507728 Mar 21 08:51 initrd.img-3.2.28-20130320-232852
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2219048 Mar 21 08:59 uImage
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6507792 Mar 21 09:00 uInitrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2218984 Mar 21 07:13 vmlinuz-3.2.28-20130320-232852

Sorry, I already removed old uImage which I remember is around 1.6M as I use a 2g usb stick.

-syong

bodhi,

FYI, I just did a native compile with your kernel patch on 3.2.30 kernel.

The build worked fine and solved the problem of almost 1min delay when mounting a 2T ext4 drive.

-syong

Cool! good to know.

bodhi,

unfortunately, your package does not boot on the Zyxel NSA320, as it does not recognize the machine id (arcNumber = 3956; machid=f74). What must be done to remedy this?

Like davy's 3.3.2 kernel, it should not really be a problem to use your's, I think.

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chessplayer Wrote:
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> bodhi,
>
> unfortunately, your package does not boot on the
> Zyxel NSA320, as it does not recognize the machine
> id (arcNumber = 3956; machid=f74). What must be
> done to remedy this?
>
> Like davy's 3.3.2 kernel, it should not really be
> a problem to use your's, I think.

Chessplayer,
It does not have the patch for NSA320! Because I dont own one. I could build with the patch, but can't test it. So if you or somebody resquest then I will build with Nsa320 and somebody else will have to do the test.

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bodhi,

I would be interested and I would also be willing to do the test.

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@chessplayer,

Unfortunately I can't find the individual patch for NSA320! there is a consolidated patch for Arch (by moonman) which has NSA320:
https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/blob/master/core/linux-kirkwood/archlinuxarm.patch

But it will take some works to extract it.

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@bodhi,

that's ok, I will just wait for when you have found time for this.

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@chessplayer,

Please try this kernel 3.8.11 and let me know if you can run it on NSA320. Once you have verified that it works, I will update the 3.8.11 thread to include it.

Update - see main thread for link:
http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,12096

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/11/2013 04:01PM by bodhi.

@bodhi,

I will do that, but it may take until tomorrow night.At the same time, I will try your advice concerning the wheezy upgrade.

In any case: thanks a real lot for your efforts!

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@bodhi,

you are my hero. Things worked out with some gotchas:

First, I downloaded the file from your link above. However, the archive manager complained, that this was not a bzip-file and would not open it. By sheer coincidence, I renamed it to ...gz2 (instead of ...bz2) and voilá, it opened. So I repacked and transferred to the USB-Stick, where I unpacked it. Then I did the following:

└──> dpkg -i linux-image-3.8.11-kirkwood-tld-2_2.0_armel.deb 
Selecting previously unselected package linux-image-3.8.11-kirkwood-tld-2.
(Reading database ... 13410 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-image-3.8.11-kirkwood-tld-2 (from linux-image-3.8.11-kirkwood-tld-2_2.0_armel.deb) ...
Examining /etc/kernel/preinst.d/
Done.
Setting up linux-image-3.8.11-kirkwood-tld-2 (2.0) ...

 Hmm. There is a symbolic link /lib/modules/3.8.11-kirkwood-tld-2/build
 However, I can not read it: No such file or directory
 Therefore, I am deleting /lib/modules/3.8.11-kirkwood-tld-2/build


 Hmm. The package shipped with a symbolic link /lib/modules/3.8.11-kirkwood-tld-2/source
 However, I can not read the target: No such file or directory
 Therefore, I am deleting /lib/modules/3.8.11-kirkwood-tld-2/source

Running depmod.
Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 3.8.11-kirkwood-tld-2 /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.11-kirkwood-tld-2
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.8.11-kirkwood-tld-2
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-flash-kernel 3.8.11-kirkwood-tld-2 /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.11-kirkwood-tld-2

Question: what about the symlinks dpkg is complaining about? Do I need to do anything about it for things to come in the future? For the time being, it did not make a difference. I followed up with:

mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x00008000 -e 0x00008000 -n Linux-3.8.11-kirkwood-tld-2 -d /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.11-kirkwood-tld-2 /boot/uImage
mkimage -A arm -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip -a 0x00000000 -e 0x00000000 -n initramfs-3.8.11-kirkwood-tld-2  -d /boot/initrd.img-3.8.11-kirkwood-tld-2 /boot/uInitrd

and

cd /
ln -s boot/vmlinuz-3.8.11-kirkwood-tld-2 vmlinuz
ln -s boot/initrd.img-3.8.11-kirkwood-tld-2 initrd.img

Watching reboot in netconsole gave:

U-Boot 2011.12 (May 03 2012 - 17:04:23)
ZyXEL NSA320 2-Bay Power Media Server
arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Sourcery G++ Lite 2009q3-67) 4.4.1
GNU ld (Sourcery G++ Lite 2009q3-67) 2.19.51.20090709
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0 
(Re)start USB...
USB:   Register 10011 NbrPorts 1
USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus for devices... 3 USB Device(s) found
       scanning bus for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found
stopping USB..
(Re)start USB...
USB:   Register 10011 NbrPorts 1
USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus for devices... 3 USB Device(s) found
       scanning bus for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found
Loading file "/boot/uImage" from usb device 0:1 (usbda1)
1 bytes read
Found bootable drive on usb 0:1
bootargs=console=ttyS0,115200 root=LABEL=USB-Root rootdelay=10 rootfstype=ext4 mtdparts=orion_nand:1M(u-boot),512K(uboot_env),512K(key_store),512K(info),10M(etc),10M(kernel_1),48896K(rootfs1),10M(kernel_2),-(rootfs2)
Loading file "/boot/uImage" from usb device 0:1 (usbda1)
1805696 bytes read
Loading file "/boot/uInitrd" from usb device 0:1 (usbda1)
6900416 bytes read
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 00800000 ...
   Image Name:   Linux-3.8.11-kirkwood-tld-2
   Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
   Data Size:    1805632 Bytes = 1.7 MiB
   Load Address: 00008000
   Entry Point:  00008000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 01100000 ...
   Image Name:   initramfs-3.8.11-kirkwood-tld-2
   Image Type:   ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
   Data Size:    6900352 Bytes = 6.6 MiB
   Load Address: 00000000
   Entry Point:  00000000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
   Loading Kernel Image ... OK
OK

Starting kernel ...

So, this looked good. SSH yielded:

         _sudZUZ#Z#XZo=_         DDDD   EEEEEE BBBB   IIIIII  AAAA   NN   NN
      _jmZZ2!!~---~!!X##wa       DD DD  EE     BB BB    II   AA  AA  NNN  NN
   .<wdP~~            -!YZL,     DD  DD EEEEE  BBBBB    II   AAAAAA  NNNN NN
  .mX2'       _%aaa__     XZ[.   DD DD  EE     BB  BB   II   AA  AA  NN NNNN
  oZ[      _jdXY!~?S#wa   ]Xb;   DDDD   EEEEEE BBBBB  IIIIII AA  AA  NN   NN
 _#e'     .]X2(     ~Xw|  )XXc 
.2Z`      ]X[.       xY|  ]oZ(   Linux Version 3.8.11-kirkwood-tld-2
.2#;      )3k;     _s!~   jXf`   Compiled #1 PREEMPT Sun Jun 9 17:36:05 PDT 2013
 1Z>      -]Xb/    ~    __#2(    One ARM  Processor, 512M RAM
 -Zo;       +!4ZwaaaauZZXY'      1196.85 Bogomips Total
  *#[,        ~-?!!!!!!-~        my-hostname
   XUb;.                       
    )YXL,,                     
      +3#bc,                   
        -)SSL,,                
           ~~~~~               
[Tue Jun 11 19:42:21 CEST 2013]
 19:42:21 up 1 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.12, 0.05, 0.02
USER     TTY      FROM             LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
root     pts/0    xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  19:42    1.00s  0.04s  0.01s w

Filesystem                   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs                       3.2G  573M  2.5G  19% /
udev                          10M     0   10M   0% /dev
/dev/disk/by-label/USB-Root  3.2G  573M  2.5G  19% /
/dev/sdb1                    190M   48M  133M  27% /boot
┌─[root@my-hostname]─[~]
└──>

Great, running 3.8.11 kernel on the Zyxel. Tried as well on Dockstar, Pogo E02, GoFlex Net and GoFlex Home: all working!!!

THANK YOU, bodhi!

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/17/2013 12:18PM by chessplayer.

@chessplayer,

Awesome! and sorry about the gz2/bz2, I got it mixed up sometime (it must be a mental block somewhere :)). I'll re-archive the tarball properly.

The symlinks warning is not a problem, dpkg just looks for the source and build directories and can't find them. It does not effect the kernel installation at all.

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