Re: Installing a new kernel

James Conner wrote:

>The best (only) place to get the ipaq kernel source is from the cvs
>repositary on handhelds.org.
>
>
Are those patches being fed into the standard kernel tree? It would be
really cool to be able to build an iPAQ kernel from the vanilla kernel.

>That should get you going with a working kernel.
>
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>Let me know how it goes...
>
Thanks for your tips!
  I have now (natively) compiled a new kernel on the iPAQ.
  I hade two minor issues: the default configuration settings didn't
have settings for all the kernel features, so I was asked to specify
some whose values I wasn't sure of:

Compressed boot loader in ROM/flash
Compressed ROM boot loader base address
Compressed ROM boot loader BSS address
CFI Flash device mapped on HP iPAQ Handhelds

I chose the defaults. I don't think there was help available for any of
these options.
  The second issue was when I built the kernel, I got a #warning:

pm.c: warning: #warning ACPI broke the kernel, this interface needs to
be fixed up.

And the pm.c file failed to compile.
  So I removed the power management option from the kernel config, and
rebuilt, and now I have a zImage!

Now, how do I install it? I'm running Intimate on top of Familiar. My
/boot directory is empty. Do I have to reboot into Familiar? Do I have
to do anything to the boot loader (similar to running /sbin/lilo)?
  I don't want to mess up the boot procedure, because I don't know how I
would recover it...

>I _really_ want some simple speech recognition for linux
>
Well, we can provide either simple speech recognition or fancy speech
recognition / language understanding!
  It is a commercial product, I'm afraid, but if you have any
application ideas, let me know!

Thanks for your help,

  Erland
Received on Mon Sep 02 2002 - 15:24:02 EDT