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Here's how to cross-build the kernel from the git repository.

== Initial setup ==

Having ccache installed is optional but helpful if you are often rebuilding the package from scratch with minor modifications.

{{{
sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf ccache git kernel-wedge libncursesw5-dev
}}}

Get the source

{{{
git clone git://kernel.ubuntu.com/hwe/ubuntu-nexus7.git
}}}

Create an alias called fdr that points to fakeroot debian/rules. You can stick this in ~/.bash_aliases and then source the file to make it permanent.

{{{
alias fdr="fakeroot debian/rules"
}}}

== Rebuild the package ==

Go to the source directory

{{{
cd ubuntu-nexus7
}}}

Remove leftover from previous builds or other cruft

{{{
git clean -xdf
}}}

You need to do the following in order to disable cross-building of the linux-tools binary package, as that requires multiarch setup and some armhf libs installed in the host system.

{{{
sed -i '/do_tools/ s/true/false/' debian.linaro/rules.d/armhf.mk
}}}

Calling fakeroot debian/rules (fdr) clean is necessary before each build.

{{{
fdr clean
}}}


Next we create the package, and depending on your system speed, ccache and on the kernel configurations that are enabled it can take anywhere between 3 minutes and a couple of hours. The value for parallel works best when it equals the number of CPUs in your system + 1.

{{{
debuild -eDEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="parallel=3" -eCROSS_COMPILE="ccache arm-linux-gnueabihf-" -b -aarmhf -us -uc -nc
}}}

== Change the configuration ==

The configuration file is in debian.linaro/config/config.common.ubuntu

Bring up menuconfig

{{{
fdr editconfigs
}}}

See what you have changed

{{{
git diff
}}}

Or edit that file manually and then updateconfigs so it checks your changes and fixes up any possible side-effects

{{{
fdr updateconfigs
}}}

Then run debuild again as above

== Build zImage only ==

Sometimes you just want a zImage for a quick test such as inserting it in a boot.img and trying it out without a full deb installation.

This does an out of source tree build of a zImage (no modules) using the current Ubuntu configs. Faster than a full package build. Like the value for parallel mentioned above, the -j value works best when it is number of CPUs + 1.

{{{
cd ubuntu-nexus7
mkdir ../build
cp debian.linaro/config/config.common.ubuntu ../build/.config
CROSS_COMPILE="ccache arm-linux-gnueabihf-" ARCH=arm make O=../build -j3 zImage
}}}
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Nexus7/KernelBuild (last edited 2012-11-13 11:07:36 by dholbach)