[fedora-arm] Building a kernel for the Chromebook...

[William Cohen]

On 02/27/2013 01:52 PM, Jon wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:21 AM, William Cohen <wcohen at redhat.com <mailto:wcohen at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>     On 02/27/2013 11:51 AM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
>     > Is it advisable to build my own kernel for the Chromebook? I glanced
>     > through the IRC chat from last week and saw a note about kernels.
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>     I built a local version of the kernel because I needed some additional options enabled in the kernel (kprobes and debuginfo) so I could test out systemtap on the chrome book.  If the existing kernel works for you, why spend the time on building you own local kernel?
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>     -Will
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> Darryl,
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> I would advise you build your own kernel.
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> The upstream chromeos-3.4 contains many fixes, including the audio fix so you do not risk melting the speakers.
> I would also advise you enable audit_syscall.
> Enabling the PERF stuff is also a good idea.

There have been a number of corrections and improvements in the git repo kernel, but the earlier comment was kind of the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."  It takes a little while to set things up and build the kernel and install it.  Daryl, if you need help to set it up I can help you.

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> William has a great kernel doc on his people page that goes over this stuff.


http://people.redhat.com/wcohen/chromebook/chrome_kernel.txt

I wished that we had a srpm setup for the chromebook git kernel, then could point people at the koji build.  However, need to have the uboot built for chromebook also need vboot-utils.

-Will