[ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)

[lee jones]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Stuart Winter <m-lists at biscuit.org.uk>wrote:

>
> > That's certianly a good idea, quite agree about recompiling the kernel.
> Only
> > snag is I don't know anywhere near enough about doing so - especially on
> > arm, and from what I've read there needs to be special bits 'n' pieces
> > compiled in for (say) the gpu to work properly. I'm really thinking I'll
> > have to wait this isn't something I have anywhere enough ability to do
> x.x !
>
> Each architecture should have a default configuration.
> So you cd into the root of the Linux kernel source, and do for example:
>  make ARCH=arm rpc_defconfig
> which would place the RiscPC default configuration as the kernel '.config'
> file.  You can find the configs in:
>  arch/arm/configs
>
> If the Efika can boot via tftp (I haven't been following the thread much)
> then you place the newly compiled kernel onto your tftp server and boot it
> over the network.  This way you leave the original one (on your NAND or
> whatever) in tact.  This is how I usually test the new kernels for
> ARMedslack.
> This way, if your kernel works then it does -- if not, you can recompile
> until you get it right.
>
> --
> Stuart Winter
> Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org
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Had a look around online and came aross this;
http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2011/05/16/linux-2-6-38-on-efika-mx-smartbook/

so maybe someone else has done it already?

ljones
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