[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Linux kernel source code

From: Kimmo Hämäläinen kimmo.hamalainen at nokia.com
Date: Wed Aug 30 13:37:18 EEST 2006
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 10:41, ext Kimmo Ahola wrote:
...
> Kernel is compiling cleanly with the cs2005q3.2 toolchain, is there some good 
> reason not to use that to compile whole system (IT2006&Maemo2.0 and 
> kernel)???

I believe the kernel and initfs are compiled with a different compiler
(and toolchain) as the rest of the system. So, it's different, but I
don't know which is it :)

> I am also a little bit surprised that this mailing-list does not include more 
> people who compiles the kernel by himself/herself (or at least that 
> impression I have gotten). Maybe they don't have to ask any questions like I 
> have done... :-)

There should be some howto somewhere... (maybe searching the mailing
list archive helps), because the same question has been asked so many
times.

> Best Regards,
> 
> 	Kimmo

BR; Kimmo (#2)

> 
> On Tuesday 15 August 2006 13:02, Kimmo Ahola wrote:
> > Hello Daniel,
> >
> > On Tuesday 15 August 2006 12:29, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 12:12:45PM +0300, ext Kimmo Ahola wrote:
> > > > Just a minor addition. The kernel source 2.6.16 does not contain the
> > > > WLAN driver (cx3110x) so you have to fetch the code for WLAN from
> > > > 	https://garage.maemo.org/projects/cx3110x/
> > > > By the way, is this announced somewhere?
> > > >
> > > > But at least for me the code does not compile correctly, I get the
> > > > following error:
> > > > -----
> > > > /scratchbox/compilers/cs2005q3.2-glibc-arm/bin/sbox-arm-linux-ld:
> > > > ERROR: Source object /home/user/cx3110x/umac_arm9.lib has EABI
> > > > version 0, but target /home/user/cx3110x/umac.o has EABI version 4
> > > > ----
> > > >
> > > > Maybe the proprietary part of the driver is compiled with the old
> > > > version?
> > >
> > > You need make KERNEL_SRC_DIR=... EABI4=y modules, for IT2006.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Daniel
> >
> > Thanks for this tip, but it's not helping me. I got the same error when
> > using EABI4=y parameter in 'make'.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > 	Kimmo
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