Article: Building kernels for plug computers (Shallow Thoughts)

Akkana's Musings on Open Source Computing and Technology, Science, and Nature.

Fri, 25 Feb 2011

Article: Building kernels for plug computers

This week's Linux Planet article continues the Plug Computer series, with Cross-compiling Custom Kernels for Little Linux Plug Computers.

It covers how to find and install a cross-compiler (sadly, your Linux distro probably doesn't include one), configuring the Linux kernel build, and a few gotchas and things that I've found not to work reliably.

It took me a lot of trial and error to figure out some of this -- there are lots of howtos on the web but a lot of them skip the basic steps, like the syntax for the kernel's CROSS_COMPILE argument -- but you'll need it if you want to enable any unusual drivers like GPIO. So good luck, and have fun!

Tags: , , , ,
[ 12:30 Feb 25, 2011    More tech | permalink to this entry | ]

Comments via Disqus:

blog comments powered by Disqus