Provide option to compile kernels into .deb files

Question

Provide option to compile kernels into .deb files

n0toose opened this issue 4 years ago · comments

Panagiotis "Ivory" Vasilopoulos commented 4 years ago

Panagiotis "Ivory" Vasilopoulos · Answer 1 · Sat Apr 18 2020 22:27:59 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I'd like to work on this, if that's not too big of a deal.

My approach would be the following;

create new option in Makefile that enables an environment variable and then runs the make-kernel script.
if the said environment variable has been toggled, run the following command on the root of the kernel sources; fakeroot debian/rules binary

I'd just like to get the green light on this, thanks!

c0rnelius · Answer 2 · Sun Apr 19 2020 00:21:21 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Sounds good.

If ur going to be working directly from the hub, please use feature branch.

Branches:
master - default
feature
rpi4b - depreciated
rpi3b - depreciated
rpi0w - depreciated

Panagiotis "Ivory" Vasilopoulos · Answer 3 · Sun Apr 19 2020 05:40:12 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Sounds good.

If ur going to be working directly from the hub, please use feature branch.

I'll open a pull request, so that you'll be able to tell apart tiny corrections and details before it gets merged, since I'm still a bit unfamiliar with the codebase.

c0rnelius · Answer 4 · Mon Apr 27 2020 01:03:33 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Mission accomplished!

Feature branch is now ready for testing.

update:

Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 1 modules
  CC [M]  /home/pi/rtl8812au/88XXau.mod.o
  LD [M]  /home/pi/rtl8812au/88XXau.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-5.4.32-v8'

x86 cross compiling seems to be a success. "the headers are usable"
I'm running into trouble cross compiling from other architectures, but this could just be my setup.