Re: [Gumstix-users] uImage location

[Jason C. <j_...@sw...>]

Dave,
	thanks for that. only problem I have is removing the patch,
1. dir I have is target/device/Gumstix/basix-connex/kernel-patches/
2. patch dosnt exist

apart from that looks good.
Jason

PS Poke at Craig for a more perminate fix :)

On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 06:58 -0700, Dave Hylands wrote:
> Hi Jason,
> 
> On 7/24/07, Jason Cox <j_...@sw...> wrote:
> > this is all good, but for us on the other side of the world without
> > jtag, i of one dont want to brick my gumstix
> > I think there should be a build option dependant on whith version of
> > uBoot you use
> 
> That actually makes some sense to me. Now to convince Craig...
> 
> Anyways, here's what you need to change in the
> target/device/Gumstix/linux.mk file:
> 
> Change:
> LINUX_KERNEL=$(BASE_DIR)/uImage
> to be:
> LINUX_KERNEL=$(TARGET_DIR)/boot/uImage
> 
> Just before this line (search for LINUX_KERNEL)
> 	cp -fpR --no-dereference $(LINUX_DIR)/$(LINUX_UIMAGE) $(LINUX_KERNEL)
> add this:
> 	mkdir -p $(TARGET_DIR)/boot
> 
> and your kernel should be showing up where it used to.
> 
> To be complete, and regain back the 1Mb of flash as part of the
> partition, you should also remove the uImage-in--own-partition.patch
> file entry from the series file found in the
> target/device/Gumstix/kernel-patches directory.
> 
> To actually make that change take effect, you also need to remove all
> of the kernel sources (so the kernel sources get rebuilt without the
> above patch);
> cd gumstix-buildroot
> rm -rf build_arm_nofpu/linux-version (replace version appropriately)
>