upgrading the kernel to 2.4.26?

Hello,

I'm currently working on the kernel, but first I need a working patch to
uClinux-2.4.19-uc1, so as to compile the kernel alone.

When I patch the uClinux-2.419 with the patch of erich, it doesn't
compile (missing includes).

If someone succeeds in compiling the kernel outside any firmware dir, it
would be nice to clean the makefile.

I have also compared briefly the uClinux-2.4.19 and uClinux-2.4.26, and
the following files have not changed:

uClinux-2.4.x/arch/armnommu/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.in
uClinux-2.4.x/arch/armnommu/kernel/armksyms.c
uClinux-2.4.x/arch/armnommu/mm/fault-armv.c
uClinux-2.4.x/arch/armnommu/mm/fault-common.c
uClinux-2.4.x/arch/armnommu/mm/memory.c
uClinux-2.4.x/arch/armnommu/mm/mm-armv.c
uClinux-2.4.x/arch/armnommu/mm/proc-arm940.S
uClinux-2.4.x/fs/jffs/inode-v23.c
uClinux-2.4.x/fs/jffs/intrep.h
uClinux-2.4.x/fs/jffs/jffs_fm.c
uClinux-2.4.x/fs/jffs/jffs_fm.h
uClinux-2.4.x/include/asm-armnommu/mach/pci.h
uClinux-2.4.x/include/asm-armnommu/mman.h
uClinux-2.4.x/include/asm-armnommu/mmu_context.h
uClinux-2.4.x/include/asm-armnommu/mmu.h
uClinux-2.4.x/include/asm-armnommu/proc-armv/cache.h

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4.26?

Hello Henrion,

> When I patch the uClinux-2.419 with the patch of erich, it doesn't
> compile (missing includes).

Inside the SDK tree? I guess the missing includes contain the MVC
statements, OIDs and such. Try adding these as well.

I'm offline during the next week.

Gruß,
Erich Schubert
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Successful compile anyone ?

Re: Successful compile anyone ? (James Coleman)

> I did notice the "stipped toolchain". Unfortunately it does not compile =
> either on SuSE9 nor on knoppix 3.4. On both the making of "gcc" aborts =
> with different errors.

You asked exactly my question.
I have the same AP and I do also use suse 9.
I was able to compile the fujitsu source without an error.
At least I think so because there was a file named apfirmware.img in ../apfw/
(or something like that) and I was able to upload these images onto my AP by
tftp.
But the Images that were created do not seem to work on my access point.
(It does not turn on the wlan led and it does not send network packages that I
could recieve in etherreal).

I think the arm crosscompiler I used comes from snapgear.
As I have never heard of anyone successfull in creating his own Image
I lost interest.

But if someone could give some advice on a working setup I would really like to
try again.

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Re: Re: Successful compile anyone ? (James Coleman)

Hi Martin,

that is exactly the point.

I build the "stripped toolchain" some time ago.
But: before I even found the "stripped toolchain" I had installed uClinux
and later the the "arm-toolchain" from the uclinux website.
So, I am not sure anymore what exactly I got working.

The result with the "stripped toolchain" is as you found too: compile works,
image upload works (not tftp-error), and the AP does not work until flashed
with some other precompiled image.

I tried these:

- http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/dist/
full uclinux-distribution, impossilble to configure unless you know exactly
what you are doing

- http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/arm-elf-tools/ : The source-distro
the sources are almost complete, a script "build-uclinux-tools.sh" is
included, just the "uClinux-Kernel" is missing. No idea what to do about
that

- same as above (http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/arm-elf-tools/) : The
binaries-distro
looks ok, but installs in a different path. The medion-sources look for
"/opt/uclinux_tools_1.6.0.0/bin" where they do not find the tools.
This path can be changed in v1010/.../apfw/tooldir.mak, but that does not
solve the problem, as other files are elsewhere too.

- The "stripped toolchain" (see
ttp://isl3893.sourceforge.net/  ->software->isl3893-patches)
the tools seem to compile sometimes. the compiler then works and generates
an image. That image causes the AP to go dead.

In the past few days I re-installed the "stripped toolchain" on another pc
with a freshly installed linux.
Here the "stipped tools" could not be build, due to errors (syntax and
#define) while compiling the arm-elf-gcc.

Has anyone compiled a working firmware before ?

James

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Kielhorn" <Martin.Kielhorn <at> uni-jena.de>
To: <isl3893-devel <at> lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 11:57 AM
Subject: [Isl3893-devel] Re: Successful compile anyone ? (James Coleman)

> > I did notice the "stipped toolchain". Unfortunately it does not compile
=
> > either on SuSE9 nor on knoppix 3.4. On both the making of "gcc" aborts =
> > with different errors.
>
> You asked exactly my question.
> I have the same AP and I do also use suse 9.
> I was able to compile the fujitsu source without an error.
> At least I think so because there was a file named apfirmware.img in
../apfw/
> (or something like that) and I was able to upload these images onto my AP
by
> tftp.
> But the Images that were created do not seem to work on my access point.
> (It does not turn on the wlan led and it does not send network packages
that I
> could recieve in etherreal).
>
> I think the arm crosscompiler I used comes from snapgear.
> As I have never heard of anyone successfull in creating his own Image
> I lost interest.
>
> But if someone could give some advice on a working setup I would really
like to
> try again.
>
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Re: Re: Successful compile anyone ? (James Coleman)

Hi,

> Has anyone compiled a working firmware before ?

Yes. There are some people on this list customizing the AP for their
companies. As noted a couple of times before i was able to build the
toolchain on RedHat9 (but not on Debian, don't ask my why; recent gcc
versions didn't work for me) and generate a working image using the SDK.

Greetings,
Erich Schubert
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Re: Re: Successful compile anyone ? (James Coleman)

Hello Erich,

Thanks, fair enough. I am downloading RedHat9 right now.

You mentioned the "SDK". Please hint where I can download that.

cheers, James

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erich Schubert" <erich <at> debian.org>
To: "James Coleman" <james.coleman <at> freenet.de>
Cc: "Martin Kielhorn" <Martin.Kielhorn <at> uni-jena.de>;
<isl3893-devel <at> lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Isl3893-devel] Re: Successful compile anyone ? (James Coleman)

Hi,

> Has anyone compiled a working firmware before ?

Yes. There are some people on this list customizing the AP for their
companies. As noted a couple of times before i was able to build the
toolchain on RedHat9 (but not on Debian, don't ask my why; recent gcc
versions didn't work for me) and generate a working image using the SDK.

Greetings,
Erich Schubert
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Re: Re: Successful compile anyone ? (James Coleman)

Hi,

> Thanks, fair enough. I am downloading RedHat9 right now.

Not that i'd recommend redhat, nor do i know what is preventing the
build of a proper working toolchain on other linux systems. 

> You mentioned the "SDK". Please hint where I can download that.

http://isl3893.sf.net/ has all the links to the publicly available SDKs
i have never tried them, but a diff showed no important differences to
the "closed" SDK i recieved (apart from containing the source codes to
some non-free parts such as datastore)
In fact the only difference in source code i can remember is also
available on the isl3893.sf.net web site, the kernel patch to enable the
4-port-switch on the zcom boards.

Greetings,
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Re: Re: Successful compile anyone ? (James Coleman)

---- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erich Schubert" <erich <at> debian.org>
To: "James Coleman" <james.coleman <at> freenet.de>
Cc: <isl3893-devel <at> lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 12:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Isl3893-devel] Re: Successful compile anyone ? (James Coleman)

> Hi,
>
> > Thanks, fair enough. I am downloading RedHat9 right now.
>
> Not that i'd recommend redhat, nor do i know what is preventing the
> build of a proper working toolchain on other linux systems. 

If it works it is good enough for me.

>
> > You mentioned the "SDK". Please hint where I can download that.
>
> http://isl3893.sf.net/ has all the links to the publicly available SDKs
> i have never tried them, but a diff showed no important differences to
> the "closed" SDK i recieved (apart from containing the source codes to
> some non-free parts such as datastore)
> In fact the only difference in source code i can remember is also
> available on the isl3893.sf.net web site, the kernel patch to enable the
> 4-port-switch on the zcom boards.

Great, so please let us know which of the quite many files on the
isl3893-site exactly you mean. Or, more specific: which of the quite many
files did you "diff" with the other sdk?

And, even more specific: if you know the "closed" sdk is working, then where
exactly can I get that ?

As far as I can tell so far some (non free) parts are missing from the
"public" SDKs.
That makes me begin to wonder for what reason these should work at all.
Doesn't sound logical to me.

Cheers, James

>
> Greetings,
> Erich Schubert
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Re: Re: Successful compile anyone ? (James Coleman)

Hi,

> Great, so please let us know which of the quite many files on the
> isl3893-site exactly you mean. Or, more specific: which of the quite many
> files did you "diff" with the other sdk?

I don't remember for sure, but it probably was the first SDK Fujitsu-
Siemens released.

> And, even more specific: if you know the "closed" sdk is working, then where
> exactly can I get that ?

>From the licencee server of conexant if you are a licencee...

> As far as I can tell so far some (non free) parts are missing from the
> "public" SDKs.

Yes, they are only included in binary form.

> That makes me begin to wonder for what reason these should work at all.
> Doesn't sound logical to me.

They are included in binary form, so if you don't delete them you can
just keep these parts. Or you can replace them with your own code.
(As i have done, since modifying them to fit my needs looked like to
much work.)

Greetings,
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