Re: how to build a kernel package of flavor 'armmp'

2016-12-19 Thread Simon H
a little here (on putting Debian on the device in the first place; which was relatively easy; only I can't remember now if the installer came up on the HDMI or on the serial; certainly tried one installer which was silent on serial and only on the third attempt did I realise to look at HDMI... :),

Re: how to build a kernel package of flavor 'armmp'

2016-12-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2016-12-19 at 16:52 +, Simon H wrote: > Although it did not do a total rebuild, I think it rebuilt every > loadable module (kind of expected if they will check kernel > version). Ah, yes, it was probably relinking the .ko out of the .o rather than fully compiling, but still quite t

Re: how to build a kernel package of flavor 'armmp'

2016-12-19 Thread Simon H
Thank you Ian, Hit exactly the right spot. I went with 'write the "-armmp" string (without the quotes this time) to a file called "localversion" at the root of your kernel source tree.' and then 'make -j 4 ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- bindeb-pkg' Although it did not do a total r

Re: how to build a kernel package of flavor 'armmp'

2016-12-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2016-12-19 at 09:09 +, Simon H wrote: > However, when using > 'dpkg -i linux-image-4.8.7_4.8.7-1_armhf.deb' > to install the kernel, the device complains: > > "Kernel /boot/vmlinuz-4.8.7 does not match any of the expected > flavors > (armmp), therefore not writing it to flash" Histori

how to build a kernel package of flavor 'armmp'

2016-12-19 Thread Simon H
Dear all, I've been trying to build a kernel (4.8.7) for my MK802 which is currently running 4.8.0-1 (really nice and easy install - thankyou! used pcduino as base; may try to use the mk802 dtb in the future.). Please be gentle because I've been at this for about a week straight, and Google offer