Author: wookey
Date: 2010-02-12 16:42:32 +0000 (Fri, 12 Feb 2010)
New Revision: 995

Modified:
   balloon/trunk/kernel/README
Log:
Updated a little for current state of play


Modified: balloon/trunk/kernel/README
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--- balloon/trunk/kernel/README	2010-02-12 16:32:43 UTC (rev 994)
+++ balloon/trunk/kernel/README	2010-02-12 16:42:32 UTC (rev 995)
@@ -7,19 +7,22 @@
 
 * The kernel.org kernel source is downloaded and upacked. By default
   this is done from the copy on balloonboard.org, but for development
-  you may want to change it to use upstream.
+  you may want to change it to use upstream
 
 * A patches directory is created in the kernel tree which is a link to
-  this directory. This is needed for quilt to find the patches.
+  this directory. This is needed for quilt to find the patches and
+  series file specifying the list of patches. An appropriate series
+  file is linked as 'series' in the build tree, according to which
+  balloon variant is configured in Makefile.local/Makefile.inc
 
-* quilt (apt-get install quilt) is used to patch the kernel (using the 
-  patches listed in the file 'series')
+* quilt (apt-get install quilt) is used to patch the kernel (using the
+  patches listed in the file 'series'). 
 
-* The source is configured 'make balloon3_defconfig', then built 'make
-  zImage'
+* The source is configured: 'make balloon3_defconfig', then
+  built: 'ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- make zImage'
 
 * The config is modified to include a reference to the initrd root
-  image, and configured and rebuilt again to get the combined
+  image, and configured and rebuilt to get the combined
   kernel+initrd installer image.
 
-Read the makefile for more details.
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+Read the Makefile for more details.
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