[maemo-developers] Fwd: Compiling latest kernel (from kernel.org, linux-omap git version) in n800

[From: Frantisek Dufka]

Leandro Melo de Sales wrote:
> Guillerm,
> 
>  thanks for your reply. So, about the use of --force-vermagic with
> busybox modprobe... What should I have to do to make busybox modprobe
> support --force-vermagic? get modprobe source code, and...?
> How about to use n770?

There is slightly quicker/easier but more hackish and definitely wrong 
way which may or may not work. You can set kernel version in main kernel 
Makefile to be what you want (i.e. the older one, see /proc/version on 
device) and then recompile kernel.

Modules will load without changing insmod/modprobe but some may crash. 
Those that will crash need recompiling. The proprietary umac could works 
since in theory it should not use kernel API.


> The WLAN interface driver source code is
> available or it is like n800?

Hopefully yes, in Maemo garage. So if this one will crash you could 
recompile it.

Frantisek