[OpenWrt-Devel] Linux 4.x

[Varka Bhadram]

On 06/08/2015 05:48 PM, Baptiste Clenet wrote:
> 2015-06-08 14:10 GMT+02:00 Varka Bhadram <varkabhadram at gmail.com>:
>> 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..?
> I added :
> - kmod-bluetooth
> - kmod-bluetooth_6lowpan
> - kmod-6lowpan
> - kmod-ieee802154
> - kmod-ieee802154-6lowpan
> - kmod-ieee802154-drivers
> - kmod-mac802154
> - kmod-wpan-at86rf230
> - iw
> - wpan-tools

These are already came into OpenWrt with [1].

[1]:https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2015-April/032515.html

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Varka Bhadram
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