BeagleBoardLinuxKernel - Revision history

BeagleBoy: /* OE */

2012-11-30T08:59:33Z

‎OE

2012-11-30T08:58:34Z

‎OE: direct link to OE instructions. updated download size

2012-11-30T08:50:20Z

‎Tools: simiplified quilt substitute command

2012-11-30T08:46:54Z

‎Tools: added id to ref tag

2012-11-30T08:45:54Z

‎Kernel: added footnote reference

2012-11-30T08:43:37Z

‎Tools

2012-11-30T08:42:37Z

‎Kernel: added references

2012-11-30T08:41:23Z

‎Tools: added footnote reference

2012-11-30T08:33:33Z

‎Kernel: added script to strip file:// and trailing \

2012-11-30T08:28:27Z

‎OE: removed DEFAULT_PREFERENCE variable and fixed order of information summary

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 ===OE===
-Get basic OpenEmbedded system with steps described in [http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom|OpenEmbedded and Bitbake install].  You only need to do the first one and half steps (stop before "bitbake virtual/kernel").  As of writing in Nov 2012 this downloads ~300MB.
+Get basic OpenEmbedded system with steps described in [http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom OpenEmbedded and Bitbake install].  You only need to do the first one and half steps (stop before "bitbake virtual/kernel").  As of writing in Nov 2012 this downloads ~300MB.
 After the download is finished, we are only interested in the recipe and patches for BeagleBoard kernel. These can be found in ''setup-scripts/sources/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux'':

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 ===OE===
-Get basic OpenEmbedded system with steps described in [[BeagleBoardAndOpenEmbeddedGit#OpenEmbedded_and_Bitbake_install|OpenEmbedded and Bitbake install]] article (ignore the "export OE_HOME" part, we only want the OE source system). As of writing in June 2009 this downloads ~100MB.
+Get basic OpenEmbedded system with steps described in [http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom|OpenEmbedded and Bitbake install].  You only need to do the first one and half steps (stop before "bitbake virtual/kernel").  As of writing in Nov 2012 this downloads ~300MB.
 After the download is finished, we are only interested in the recipe and patches for BeagleBoard kernel. These can be found in ''setup-scripts/sources/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux'':

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 ==Tools==
-* Patch management system [http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt quilt] is used to apply the large number of patches to Linux kernel. See [http://www.suse.de/~agruen/quilt.pdf How To Survive With Many Patches] for an introduction to quilt<ref name="quilt_substitute">You can substitute quilt with a command like ''(while read line; do patch --verbose -p1 < "../../setup-scripts/sources/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-mainline-3.2/"$line; done) < ../../setup-scripts/sources/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/series''</ref>.
+* Patch management system [http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt quilt] is used to apply the large number of patches to Linux kernel. See [http://www.suse.de/~agruen/quilt.pdf How To Survive With Many Patches] for an introduction to quilt<ref name="quilt_substitute">You can substitute quilt with a command like ''(while read line; do patch -p1 < "patches/"$line; done) < patches/series''</ref>.
 * An [[ARMCompilers|ARM cross compiler]] to compile kernel.

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 ==Tools==
-* Patch management system [http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt quilt] is used to apply the large number of patches to Linux kernel. See [http://www.suse.de/~agruen/quilt.pdf How To Survive With Many Patches] for an introduction to quilt<ref>You can substitute quilt with a command like ''(while read line; do patch --verbose -p1 < "../../setup-scripts/sources/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-mainline-3.2/"$line; done) < ../../setup-scripts/sources/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/series''</ref>.
+* Patch management system [http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt quilt] is used to apply the large number of patches to Linux kernel. See [http://www.suse.de/~agruen/quilt.pdf How To Survive With Many Patches] for an introduction to quilt<ref name="quilt_substitute">You can substitute quilt with a command like ''(while read line; do patch --verbose -p1 < "../../setup-scripts/sources/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-mainline-3.2/"$line; done) < ../../setup-scripts/sources/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/series''</ref>.
 * An [[ARMCompilers|ARM cross compiler]] to compile kernel.

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   ...
-* Now, go back into the kernel main directory. There call
+* Now, go back into the kernel main directory. There call<ref name="quilt_substitute"/>
   quilt push -a

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	Result should be an uImage which is the same as if it would be compiled with OE.		Result should be an uImage which is the same as if it would be compiled with OE.
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		+	<references/>

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   cp -r <path_to>setup-scripts/sources/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-mainline-3.2/* <path_to>/patches/
-* Go into the patches directory, and there create a file ''series'' (used by quilt) and add the patch description from the above recipe (patch files from the ''SRC_URI'' and ''SRC_URI_append_beagleboard'' variables). This is done by removing the leading ''file://'' (and trailing '';patch=1 \'') from patch list and putting this list into series file. With above example, the series file should look like:
+* Go into the patches directory, and there create a file ''series'' (used by quilt) and add the patch description from the above recipe (patch files from the ''SRC_URI'' and ''SRC_URI_append_beagleboard'' variables). This is done by removing the leading ''file://'' and trailing '' \'' from patch list and putting this list into series file. E.g.
   > cd patches

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 This recipes gives us the following information:
-* This recipe is the recent one for BeagleBoard :) (DEFAULT_PREFERENCE_*)
+* Where we get the kernel from (SRC_URI)
 * The git hash for the kernel we have to check out (SRCREV)
-* Where we get the kernel from (SRC_URI) and which kernel config file to use
+* Which kernel config file to use
 * The patches which have to be applied (in which order) (file://...patch)