ZD1200 Files

ZD1200 KERNEL BUILDING PROCEDURES

PRE-REQUISITES:

Install the following packages in an ubuntu - 14.04.6 LTS machine


sudo apt-get update
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/env /bin/env
sudo apt-get -y install build-essential
sudo apt-get -y install g++ curl cvs bison gettext flex texinfo libtool patch automake gawk lzma module-init-tools libssl-dev m4 git 
sudo apt-get -y install pkg-config unzip
sudo apt-get remove libnss-mdns
sudo apt-get install -y libncurses5-dev
sudo apt-get install -y python-setuptools



Building steps:

1)	Untar zd1200_task.tar.gz file using
$ tar -xvf zd1200_task_v3.tar.gz

2)	Change the directory to zd1200_task
$ cd zd1200_task

3)Change the directory to linux-mips
$ cd linux/kernels/linux-mips

4)	apply the patch by using git apply
$ git apply --reject --whitespace=fix  ../../../zd1200.patch

5)	Change the directory to buildroot.
$ cd ../../../buildroot

6) Give the build command in the buildroot directory
$ sudo make PROFILE=zd1200 

7) While kernel is getting compiled, it asks for some configurations, press Enter for all

8) It will be built successfully and ends with providing a version number