[OpenWrt-Devel] Linux 4.x

[Baptiste Clenet]

2015-06-08 13:49 GMT+02:00 Baptiste Clenet <bapclenet at gmail.com>:
> 2015-06-08 10:53 GMT+02:00 Varka Bhadram <varkabhadram at gmail.com>:
>> On 06/08/2015 01:36 PM, Baptiste Clenet wrote:
>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I've edited variable KERNEL_PATCHVER:=3.18 to KERNEL_PATCHVER:=4.0.4
>>>>> in target/Linux/ramips/Makefile in order to get Linux 4.0.4 installed
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Also you need to specify the configuration file for 4.0.4 kernel.
>>>>
>>>> just copy the file target/linux/ramips/mt7628/config-3.18 as
>>>> target/linux/ramips/mt7628/config-4.0
>>>>
>>>> I hope it will resolve this error.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Varka Bhadram
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks Varka, I copied the files, I'm trying to make now. On question
>>> came up, what about patches? There are many patches for Linux 3.18, is
>>> there any for Linux 4.0? target/linux/ramips/mt7628 only contains a
>>> folder for 3.18 patches.
>>
>>
>> There may be so-many patches merged into 4.0 from patches-3.18 directory..?
>>
>> I just created a directory with the name patches-4.0 under
>> target/linux/ramips/ .
>>
>> I think its a bad solution. But the build was successful and able generate
>> the
>> binaries in bin/ramips directory. I don't know whether these binaries
>> working
>> or not. I don't have hardware to test these binaries.

Why is it a bad solution?

>>
>> I only copied one patch from patches-3.18 to 4.0 to fix one build error.
>> i.e., 0103-MIPS-OWRTDTB.patch
>>
>> Hope it helps. Its just a shoot in the dark for your problem.
>>
>> Test it and update the results.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> --
>> Varka Bhadram
>>
>
> Without adding the patch 0103-MIPS-OWRTDTB.patch, I got an error:
>
> WARNING: kmod-6lowpan-iphc is not available in the kernel config -
> generating empty package
>
> ...
>
> ERROR: module '/trunk/build_dir/target-mipsel_24kec+dsp_uClibc-0.9.33.2/linux-ramips_mt7628/linux-4.0.4/net/bluetooth/rfcomm/rfcomm.ko'
> is missing.
>
> This is about a package I added in menuconfig but I need them. Those
> package worked well while compiling with Linux 3.18. Any idea?
>
> Varka, which configuration did you use? Only the minimal? (I mean set
> Target and Subtarget in menuconfig)
>
> Baptiste
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