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Re: Kernel Hacking

by Mark Barton-2 :: Rate this Message:

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Mike Caruso wrote:

> Hello list,
> I was wondering if anybody knew how to build a custom kernel for a
> Verdex running Open Embedded? I have a USB Ethernet adapter I'd like
> to get working on my Verdex, it uses the RTL8150 driver. My first
> thought was to try and add it to gumstix-custom-verdex.conf, but
> wouldn't you need to enable it in the kernel config first so that it
> knows to build that module? I found what appears to be the kernel
> config in:
>
>  ~/gumstix/gumstix-oe/tmp/work/gumstix-custom-verdex-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/gumstix-kernel-2.6.21-r1/linux-2.6.21
>
> So let's say I modify that to include the RTL8150 driver (as a
> module), how would I rebuild the Verdex image to include a kernel
> built from that config?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
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Hi Mike,

http://gumstix.net/wiki/index.php?title=Kernel_Reconfiguration

Not sure how complete since I have not tried this yet, but it might do
the trick.

Mark


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