How to compile the kernel on the DockStar itself?

hi,

I want to compile the linux kernel on the dockstar ?

i can "make zImage" and "make modules" but i can build a *.deb with make-kpkg.

how i can do it ?

(it's for build a kernel for my mss2 on my dockstar, because i do not have a linux x86 to cross compile)

thanks.

I don't see a reason you can't just follow the generic debian instructions for building a new kernel package:

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch08s06.html.en

When i try to made it, i have an error like arm-none-linux-gnueabi-lb.

But if i do make-kpkg on arm ,I should not have this error ? no ?

(sory I'm french and my english is not very good)

@Val523, its not that hard... I just rolled my own 3.1.9 linux-image .deb package on my spare Dockstar

root@sparedockstar:~# uname -a
Linux debian 3.1.9-kirkwood #1 Mon Jan 16 13:45:21 UTC 2012 armv5tel GNU/Linux

... you'll have to adjust it to your needs and version... but ...

make sure you have all the necessary compile/make/dpkg-build packages installed via apt-get :

apt-get install apt-utils build-essential dialog fakeroot flash-kernel git-core gzip initramfs-tools kernel-package libncurses5-dev lzma  uboot-mkimage

(there are probably some extra ones in there...)

Get the source and put it in the expected place, unpack it:

cd /usr/src/
wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.1.9.tar.bz2   # adjust to your desired version
tar xjvf linux-3.1.9.tar.bz2

Get a known good working kernel config, and adjust it to your needs... I used the generic config in /boot from Wheezy's 3.1.0-1, and altererd it to make it a little bit smaller...

cp <whatever-config-you-want-to-start-with>   linux-3.1.9/.config          # you can start with a default kirkwood config and build up, ... or whatever
make menuconfig        #turn on what you need, turn off what you _know_ you'll never need...

When you save it while exiting from the menuconfig, check for errors... adjust and repeat as necessary...

Compile and create the .deb files for linux-image and linux-headers

make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot --arch armel  --append-to-version=-kirkwood --revision=1.0 --initrd kernel_image kernel_headers

... wait about 2 hours.


Install and create uBoot-ready uImage & initrd files:

dpkg -i /usr/src/linux-image-3.1.9-kirkwood_1.0_armel.deb 

mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x00008000 -e 0x00008000 -n Linux-3.1.9-kirkwood -d /boot/vmlinuz-3.1.9-kirkwood /boot/uImage

mkimage -A arm -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip -a 0x00000000 -e 0x00000000 -n initramfs-3.1.9-kirkwood -d /boot/initrd.img-3.1.9-kirkwood /boot/uInitrd

These are the commands I used to make a 3.1.9 kernel package - you'd have to adjust as needed to your intents... good luck.

My kernel package for linux-image-3.1.9-kirkwood_1.0_armel.deb : http://ppl.ug/cnl1R63ZOBM/ ---make sure you back up your /boot dir and other essentials before using this... also use @ your own risk...
the Linux header package is here : http://ppl.ug/vhmCIjv6zmk/

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Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 01/16/2012 08:53PM by davygravy.

Thank you,
I will test it in some hours to see if I still have the same error.

davygravy Wrote:
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> Compile and create the .deb files for linux-image
> and linux-headers
>

> make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot --arch armel 
> --append-to-version=-kirkwood --revision=1.0
> --initrd kernel_image kernel_headers
> 

... wait about 2 hours.

The trick is to specify --arch; although the documentation specifies you shouldn't specify this unless you're cross compiling, make-kpkg will assume you're cross compiling anyway.

Thanks!

Hi guys,

My Pogoplug Pink is currently

Linux Debian 3.1.9-kirkwood #1 Mon Jan 16 13:45:21 UTC 2012 armv5tel GNU/Linux

I'm trying to compile debian using this source:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.1.10.tar.bz2

I copied the config file from the current /boot directory to /usr/src/.config
/boot/config-3.1.9-kirkwood

and did not change anything related to processor type,

And I kept getting this error:

root@Debian:/usr/src/linux-3.1.10# make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot --arch armel  --append-to-version=-kirkwood --revision=1.0 --initrd kernel_image kernel_headers
exec make kpkg_version=12.036+nmu2 -f /usr/share/kernel-package/ruleset/minimal.mk debian DEBIAN_REVISION=1.0  APPEND_TO_VERSION=-kirkwood  KPKG_ARCH=armel   INITRD=YES  ROOT_CMD=fakeroot 
====== making target debian/stamp/conf/minimal_debian [new prereqs: ]======
This is kernel package version 12.036+nmu2.
test -d debian             || mkdir debian
test ! -e stamp-building || rm -f stamp-building
install -p -m 755 /usr/share/kernel-package/rules debian/rules
for file in ChangeLog  Control  Control.bin86 config templates.in rules; do                                      \
            cp -f  /usr/share/kernel-package/$file ./debian/;                               \
        done
for dir  in Config docs examples ruleset scripts pkg po;  do                                      \
          cp -af /usr/share/kernel-package/$dir  ./debian/;                                 \
        done
test -f debian/control || sed         -e 's/=V/..-kirkwood/g'  \
                -e 's/=D/1.0/g'         -e 's/=A/armel/g'  \
		-e 's/=SA//g'  \
		-e 's/=I//g'				    \
		-e 's/=CV/./g'			    \
		-e 's/=M/Unknown Kernel Package Maintainer <unknown@unconfigured.in.etc.kernel-pkg.conf>/g'			    \
		-e 's/=ST/linux/g'      -e 's/=B/armel/g'    \
                  /usr/share/kernel-package/Control > debian/control
test -f debian/changelog ||  sed -e 's/=V/..-kirkwood/g'       \
            -e 's/=D/1.0/g'        -e 's/=A/armel/g'       \
            -e 's/=ST/linux/g'     -e 's/=B/armel/g'         \
            -e 's/=M/Unknown Kernel Package Maintainer <unknown@unconfigured.in.etc.kernel-pkg.conf>/g'                            \
             /usr/share/kernel-package/changelog > debian/changelog
chmod 0644 debian/control debian/changelog
test -d ./debian/stamp || mkdir debian/stamp 
make -f debian/rules debian/stamp/conf/kernel-conf
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-3.1.10'
debian/ruleset/misc/checks.mk:36: *** Error. I do not know where the kernel image goes to [kimagedest undefined] The usual case for this is that I could not determine which arch or subarch this machine belongs to. Please specify a subarch, and try again..  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-3.1.10'
make: *** [debian/stamp/conf/minimal_debian] Error 2
Failed to create a ./debian directory: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/make-kpkg line 984.

The error seems to be a catchall kind of error. ... Any idea why?

Addendum:

Leaving out the --arch armel seems to do the trick in this case! It's compiling with this command:
make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot --append-to-version=-kirkwood --revision=1.0 --initrd kernel_image kernel_headers

Thanks,
bodhi



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/01/2012 05:45PM by bodhi.