[maemo-developers] N900 kernel module recompile

[From: Kees Jongenburger]

Hi Nils

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Nils Faerber
<nils.faerber at kernelconcepts.de> wrote:
> Hi all!
> After all that RPM vs DEB debate I thought I could bring up something
> more productive ;)

Thanks!

>
> I would like to hack on some drivers on the N900, so I need to be able
> to recompile kernel modules. Ideally I would like only to replace
> modules, not the whole kernel+modules package.
>
> So what I did was I installed the Maemo5 SDK first in order to get the
> proper toolchain.

The best to start with is to follow the Maemo Kernel Guide. If you
follow that and
dont' forget to use the extra version trick make EXTRAVERSION=-omap1 bzImage
you can indeed scp modules to the device and probe them