[OpenWrt-Devel] Linux 4.x

[Varka Bhadram]

On 06/08/2015 05:27 PM, Baptiste Clenet wrote:
> 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?

What package did you add..?

IEEE-802.15.4, 6LoWPAN and 6LoWPAN shared code b/w bluetooth and IEEE-802.15.4
packages supported by OpenWrt now.

>>
>> Varka, which configuration did you use? Only the minimal? (I mean set
>> Target and Subtarget in menuconfig)

I just did the minimal configuration.

-- 
Varka Bhadram
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