About the part for creating the ramdisk, I think you can get it by building the Android source, which will produce the ramdisk, system, and userdata images.
William Liang 2011/7/29 Siva kumar <sivakumar...@gmail.com> > I am trying to compile kernel for samsung tablet p1000. I was able to > compile the kernel and create zImage. But how to create a ramdisk and > cobine it with zImage. > > > On Jul 22, 3:03 pm, jagan <402ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ok... > > I think it may be correct also. > > As i worked on targets we always used arm-eabi- > > > > Regards, > > Jagan > > > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 3:21 PM, William W.-Y. Liang < > > > > wyli...@mail.ntut.edu.tw> wrote: > > > Ok, thanks. Please just treat my comment as a reference. :) > > > > > I used the pre-built version of GCC in the NDK directly, as below, to > > > compile the kernel, and it works. > > > > > > <ndk>/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.4.3/prebuilt/linux-x86/bin/arm-linux-androideabi- > > > > > William Liang > > > > > 2011/7/22 jagan <402ja...@gmail.com> > > > > >> But as per as android kernel is concern the tool chain should be > arm-eabi- > > >> complaint, because Apps need not use full gcc. > > > > >> Regards, > > >> Jagan. > > > > >> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 2:52 PM, William W.-Y. Liang < > > >> wyli...@mail.ntut.edu.tw> wrote: > > > > >>> A minor update to the previous comment: > > > > >>> I think it will be "arm-linux-androideabi-" instead of "arm-eabi-" > for > > >>> 4.4.3. > > > > >>> PS. Correct me if anything goes wrong here, plz. Tks. > > > > >>> BRs, > > >>> William Liang > > > > >>> 2011/7/22 jagan <402ja...@gmail.com> > > > > >>>> Ok. > > > > >>>> Just follow these steps.. > > > > >>>> $ cd kernel > > >>>> $ make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE= > > >>>> /home/jagan/toolchain/arm-eabi-4.4.3/bin/arm-eabi- > <enter_your_defconfig> > > >>>> $ make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE= > > >>>> /home/jagan/toolchain/arm-eabi-4.4.3/bin/arm-eabi- > > >>>> then it will create kernel images > > > > >>>> enter your toolchain paths > > > > >>>> Regards, > > >>>> Jagan > > > > >>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Siva kumar Balasubramanian < > > >>>> sivakumar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > >>>>> i have only kernel source released by opensource > software.samsung.com > > > > >>>>> Regards > > >>>>> sivakumar > > > > >>>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:56 PM, jagan <402ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > >>>>>> Do you have entire android source along with kernel inside it? > > > > >>>>>> Regards, > > >>>>>> Jagan > > > > >>>>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Siva kumar < > sivakumar...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > >>>>>>> I followed the following steps to compile a kernel and modules > > > > >>>>>>> make > > >>>>>>> make modules > > >>>>>>> make modules_install > > > > >>>>>>> The modules were present in /lib/modules. Is this step right to > > >>>>>>> compile the modules . What step i should follow to create a > ramdisk > > >>>>>>> for android with drivers and init.rc and combine it with zImage. > > > > >>>>>>> On Jul 20, 9:38 pm, Linux Box Solutions < > linuxboxsoluti...@gmail.com > > > > >>>>>>> wrote: > > >>>>>>> > What about kernel modules how are you compiling > > > > >>>>>>> > www.LinuxBoxSolution.comwww.YouTube.com/user/linuxboxsolutionwww.Krzy... > > > > >>>>>>> > On Jul 19, 2011, at 1:05 AM, Siva kumar < > sivakumar...@gmail.com> > > >>>>>>> wrote: > > > > >>>>>>> > > Hi all, > > > > >>>>>>> > > Is it possible to compile kernel from source and flash it in > > >>>>>>> samsung > > >>>>>>> > > galaxy tab. I downloded the source for samsung galaxy tab and > > >>>>>>> compiled > > >>>>>>> > > it and make zImage. but the size of the image is which i > built is > > >>>>>>> 3 > > >>>>>>> > > MB. where the orginal zImage size is 7.5 MB. 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