Support for BBB kernel

Does anyone know how to get in touch with Robert C Nelson? The Digikey TechXchange has been down for at least a week, and TechXchange has been removed from the Digikey main page.

I’ve got some questions about the kernel that is used in Debian and need to get in touch with him.

Regards,
Greg Wilson-Lindberg
gl4jalopi at verizon dot net
or
gwilson at sakruaus dot com

Oh i'm around, for the last week and a half or so, i've been pretty
busy finishing things on my house the realtor wanted me to fix before
we put it up for sale.

Tomorrow i'll be back at work, and doing beagle stuff. :wink:

Regards,

Great to hear, it was a bit disconcerting to see that the TechXchange site was down, and the link had been removed from the Digikey front page.

I need to see about getting a specific version of the 3.14 kernel code, so let me know how to contact you tomorrow.
Regards,
Greg

oh grab the yakbuild script:

https://github.com/RobertCNelson/yakbuild

Follow the readme.md:

for v3.14.x kernels use:

toolchain="gcc_linaro_gnueabihf_4_8"

Then just set the kernel_tag to the specific tag you want to build.

Regards,

Robert,

What exactly is the purpose of yakbuild ? I only ask because in the context of your eewiki build guide

yakbuild is different. Of course, the eewiki guides cover a lot more . . . but in the context of building a kernel ?

Thanks for the pointer, that seems to be just what I need.
One last thing, how do I get a list of the kernel versions, I seem to have a funny number that I’ve been using?

Regards,
Greg

yakbuild, it needed to build "old" git tag's from the v3.14.x-ti,
v4.1.x-ti, v4.4.x-ti branches, due to how i combine two active git
tree's..

Regards,

https://github.com/RobertCNelson/linux-stable-rcn-ee

there's a few thousand tag's..

What's your current "uname -r" i'll point to something close..

Regards,

yakbuild, it needed to build "old" git tag's from the v3.14.x-ti,
v4.1.x-ti, v4.4.x-ti branches, due to how i combine two active git
tree's..

Ok, cool, thanks Robert. Seems then it's for TI only kernels then . ..

Well yeah it was built for them, but it'll work for everything that's
been pushed to:

https://github.com/RobertCNelson/linux-stable-rcn-ee

in the last year.. :wink:

Regards,

What I’m using is 3.14.49-ti-r62, there is a 3.14.4-ti-r62 so I don’t know how I got he r62 for the 3.14.49 version.

meant 3.14.40-ti-r62 not 3.14.4-ti-r62

https://github.com/RobertCNelson/linux-stable-rcn-ee/tree/3.14.40-ti-r62

so in yakbuild, set:

kernel_tag="3.14.40-ti-r62"

Regards,

No, i need the 3.14.49 series, so what are the releases for that?

And how are you getting the list of tags? or do you just have a text file?

3.14.49-ti-r73

git checkout, and using tab completion..

Regards,

Ok, I put 3.14.49-ti-r73 in, ran build_kernel.sh. It pulled down the source and built the kernel, but at the end it didn’t build the dts’, deploy is empty and there is no kernel in arch/arm/boot.

Am I missing something?

Update, that was on my x86 system, I built it on a UEVM system and it seems to have worked, will try out the resulting kernel in the morning.

Regards,
Greg

Robert,
How do I force a make clean on yakbuild?

Regards,

./build_kernel.sh

Regards,