Building the 2.6.17 kernel

I've been running the 2.6.17 kernel from the project downloads
on my h1940 with pretty good success. (Thanks!) Mostly I'm
using GPE, because it seems to support the environment a little
better (for example, the buttons mostly work), but frankly I like
Opie better because it's smaller and faster.

Anyway, I am trying to customize the kernel and running into
problems. After patching and then using the config file from
<http://anymore.nl/ipaq/files/kernels/2.6.17-1/defconfig> and
the arm toolchain from handhelds.org, I get a link error on the
kernel build. It complains about a relocation error in fbcon.c
If I switch to the codesourcery toolchain, it fails to link with a
very odd reference to a "discarded" eth_unbind routine.

The second one is avoidable by turning off the USB ethernet
gadget, then I get a good kernel that boots fine and works well
with GPE, except that the bluetooth is nonfunctional. Not useful,
since I'm building a bluetooth app!

I am assuming this is pilot error somehow, but I'm not seeing it.
Any suggestions? Thanks!

BTW, do you need a developer? I'm a volunteer, especially for
getting suspend/resume working, and/or a bootloader. Battery
reading would be nice too. Right now I'm trying to figure out why
the RTC isn't being probed. It seems to successfully make it to
platform_driver_register() but the probe routine doesn't get called
back. As a result it always comes up in March 2006. Known issue?

Oh, I also have minicom 2.2 built and working. Might be a worthwhile
addition to the packages.
Received on Tue Dec 12 2006 - 21:34:39 EST