[Balloon-svn] r995 - balloon/trunk/kernel

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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