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if you have updated your SDK environment to latest version (see [[Ubuntu 8.04 IGEP v2.0 SDK Virtual Machine]])
 
if you have updated your SDK environment to latest version (see [[Ubuntu 8.04 IGEP v2.0 SDK Virtual Machine]])
  
=== Linux OMAP v2.6.35 series (stable)  ===
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==== Linux OMAP v2.6.35 series (stable)  ====
  
 
Latest stable kernel version is: '''2.6.35.7-1 (20101028)'''  
 
Latest stable kernel version is: '''2.6.35.7-1 (20101028)'''  
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**First release for 2.6.35 series
 
**First release for 2.6.35 series
  
=== Linux OMAP v2.6.33 series (stable)  ===
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==== Linux OMAP v2.6.33 series (stable)  ====
  
 
Latest stable kernel version is: '''2.6.33.7-0 (20100825)'''  
 
Latest stable kernel version is: '''2.6.33.7-0 (20100825)'''  
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**add support for OMAP3 IGEP module (igep0030)
 
**add support for OMAP3 IGEP module (igep0030)
  
=== Linux OMAP v2.6.28 series (stable)  ===
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==== Linux OMAP v2.6.28 series (stable)  ====
  
 
Latest stable kernel version is: '''2.6.28.10-3 (20100318)'''  
 
Latest stable kernel version is: '''2.6.28.10-3 (20100318)'''  
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  make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- modules_install INSTALL_MOD_PATH=[path to your target rootfs]
 
  make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- modules_install INSTALL_MOD_PATH=[path to your target rootfs]
  
=== Linux mainline tree (development)  ===
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==== Linux mainline tree (development)  ====
  
 
<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">'''Note:''' The 'master' branch is where the development work takes place and you should use this if you're after to work with the latest cutting edge developments. It is possible trunk can suffer temporary periods of instability while new features are developed and if this is undesirable we recommend using one of the release branches. '''Use ONLY for development purposes.'''</span>  
 
<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">'''Note:''' The 'master' branch is where the development work takes place and you should use this if you're after to work with the latest cutting edge developments. It is possible trunk can suffer temporary periods of instability while new features are developed and if this is undesirable we recommend using one of the release branches. '''Use ONLY for development purposes.'''</span>  
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! '''&nbsp;OneNAND&nbsp;'''  
 
! '''&nbsp;OneNAND&nbsp;'''  
 
! '''&nbsp;IGEP0020&nbsp;'''  
 
! '''&nbsp;IGEP0020&nbsp;'''  
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! '''&nbsp;IGEP0030&nbsp;'''
 
! '''&nbsp;IGEP0030&nbsp;'''
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| style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;2.6.35.7-1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;([http://git.igep.es/?p=pub/scm/linux-omap-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f22e641507e4e0c3fc015405bac7448f2c1d3034 20101028])
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| style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;2.6.35.7-0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;([http://git.igep.es/?p=pub/scm/linux-omap-2.6.git;a=commit;h=90ca5f215048ee612398610fab3981589da05633 20101019])  
 
| style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;2.6.35.7-0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;([http://git.igep.es/?p=pub/scm/linux-omap-2.6.git;a=commit;h=90ca5f215048ee612398610fab3981589da05633 20101019])  
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Revision as of 18:42, 28 October 2010

How to cross compile the linux kernel

Embedded Linux is the use of a Linux operating system in embedded computer systems such as mobile phones, personal digital assistants, media players, set-top boxes, and other consumer electronics devices, networking equipment, machine control, industrial automation, navigation equipment and medical instruments.

Unlike desktop and server versions of Linux, embedded versions of Linux are designed for devices with relatively limited resources, such as cell phones and set-top boxes. Due to concerns such as cost and size, embedded devices usually have much less RAM and secondary storage than desktop computers, and are likely to use flash memory instead of a hard drive. Since embedded devices serve specific rather than general purposes, developers optimize their embedded Linux distributions to target specific hardware configurations and usage situations. These optimizations can include reducing the number of device drivers and software applications, and modifying the Linux kernel to be a real-time operating system.

Overview of How-To

This How-To is meant to be a starting point for people to learn build a kernel image for IGEP v2 devices as quickly and easily as possible.

This How-To works with the Ubuntu 8.04 IGEP v2.0 SDK Virtual Machine but most of the contents are valid also for other GNU/Linux distributions. We do not issue any guarantee that this will work on other distributions.

Requirements

  • Ubuntu 8.04 IGEP v2.0 SDK Virtual Machine

IGEP platforms

  • IGEP0020 is also know as IGEP v2 platform.
  • IGEP0030 is also know as OMAP3 IGEP module.

Supported kernels

First of all setup the build environment sourcing this script

source /usr/local/poky/eabi-glibc/arm/environment-setup

or

source /usr/local/poky/eabi-glibc/environment-setup-arm-none-linux-gnueabi

if you have updated your SDK environment to latest version (see Ubuntu 8.04 IGEP v2.0 SDK Virtual Machine)

Linux OMAP v2.6.35 series (stable)

Latest stable kernel version is: 2.6.35.7-1 (20101028)

Supported platforms: IGEP0020 and IGEP0030

Platform Sources uImage binary Modules binaries
 IGEP00x0  2.6.35.7-1 (md5sum) uImage-2.6.35.7-1.bin (md5sum) modules-2.6.35.7-1 (md5sum)

Download the IGEP Linux kernel sources and follow next steps:

wget http://downloads.igep.es/sources/linux-omap-2.6.35.tar.gz
tar xzf linux-omap-2.6.35.tar.gz
cd [kernel version]
make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- <board-config>
make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- menuconfig

where the last line is only required if you want to manualy modify the kernel options and

  • <board-config> is igep0020_defconfig for IGEP v2 platform.
  • <board-config> is igep0030_defconfig for OMAP3 IGEP module.

Then build the kernel with:

make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- uImage modules

The result will be an uImage file in arch/arm/boot directory. You can install the kernel modules to your target rootfs

make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- modules_install INSTALL_MOD_PATH=[path to your target rootfs]

CHANGELOG

Linux OMAP v2.6.33 series (stable)

Latest stable kernel version is: 2.6.33.7-0 (20100825)

Supported platforms: IGEP0020 and IGEP0030

Platform Sources uImage binary Modules binaries
 IGEP00x0  2.6.33.7-0 (md5sum) uImage-2.6.33.7-0.bin (md5sum) modules-2.6.33.7-0 (md5sum)

Download the IGEP Linux kernel sources and follow next steps:

wget http://downloads.igep.es/sources/linux-omap-2.6.33.tar.gz
tar xzf linux-omap-2.6.33.tar.gz
cd [kernel version]
make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- <board-config>
make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- menuconfig

where the last line is only required if you want to manualy modify the kernel options and

  • <board-config> is igep0020_defconfig for IGEP v2 platform.
  • <board-config> is igep0030_defconfig for OMAP3 IGEP module.

Then build the kernel with:

make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- uImage modules

The result will be an uImage file in arch/arm/boot directory. You can install the kernel modules to your target rootfs

make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- modules_install INSTALL_MOD_PATH=[path to your target rootfs]

CHANGELOG

Linux OMAP v2.6.28 series (stable)

Latest stable kernel version is: 2.6.28.10-3 (20100318)

Supported platforms: IGEP0020

Platform Sources uImage binary Modules binaries
 IGEP0020  2.6.28.10-3 (md5sum) uImage-2.6.28.10-3.bin (md5sum) modules-2.6.28.10-3 (md5sum)

Download the IGEP v2 Linux kernel sources and follow next steps:

wget http://downloads.igep.es/sources/linux-omap-2.6.28.tar.gz
tar xzf linux-omap-2.6.28.tar.gz
cd [kernel version]
make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- igep0020_defconfig
make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- uImage modules

The result will be an uImage file in arch/arm/boot directory. You can install the kernel modules to your target rootfs

make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- modules_install INSTALL_MOD_PATH=[path to your target rootfs]

Linux mainline tree (development)

Note: The 'master' branch is where the development work takes place and you should use this if you're after to work with the latest cutting edge developments. It is possible trunk can suffer temporary periods of instability while new features are developed and if this is undesirable we recommend using one of the release branches. Use ONLY for development purposes.

Additional patches can be found at http://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-omap/list

This Linux kernel is also considered as a downstream of tmlind's Linux kernel. The main difference between this tree and the linux-omap tree is that the igep OMAP tree has unpublished patches for IGEP v2 support.

Clone GIT repository from git.igep.es

git clone git://git.igep.es/pub/scm/linux-omap-2.6.git
cd linux-omap-2.6

and build with

make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- omap3_defconfig
make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- uImage modules

The result will be an uImage file in arch/arm/boot directory. You can install the kernel modules to your target rootfs

make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- modules_install INSTALL_MOD_PATH=[path to your target rootfs]

Reference: Kernel features

 Kernel version   Ethernet   USB OTG   USB host   WIFI SDIO   Bluetooth   Audio IN   Audio OUT   DVI-D (Vesa)   HDMI (720p)   OneNAND   IGEP0020   IGEP0022   IGEP0030 
 2.6.35.7-1     (20101028) PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS
 2.6.35.7-0     (20101019) PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS FAIL PASS PASS PASS
 2.6.33.7-0     (20100825) PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS FAIL PASS
 2.6.33.6-0     (20100729) PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS FAIL PASS
 2.6.33.5-0     (20100611) PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS FAIL PASS
 2.6.33.4-0     (20100517) PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS (rev. B only) FAIL FAIL
 2.6.33.2-0     (20100406) PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS FAIL PASS FAIL FAIL
 2.6.28.10-3   (20100318) PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS FAIL FAIL
 2.6.28.10-2   (20091222) PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS (rev. B only) FAIL FAIL
 2.6.28.10-1   (20091109) PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS FAIL PASS PASS (rev. B only) FAIL FAIL
 2.6.28.10-0   (20090903) PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS FAIL PASS PASS FAIL PASS PASS (rev. B only) FAIL FAIL