From:  Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com>
Reply-To:  <beagleboard@googlegroups.com>
Date:  Tuesday, June 10, 2014 at 5:41 PM
To:  <beagleboard@googlegroups.com>
Subject:  [beagleboard] Adding Byte Queue Limits: debian kernel build
recipe?

> I have generally been delightedly following the Robert Nelson's debian kernel
> builds.
> 
> https://rcn-ee.net/deb/wheezy-armhf
> 
> and the day came where I wanted to try out a tiny patch adding BQL support to
> the beaglebone black. There is something of a huge gap between the available
> and largely conflicting data on the internet as to how to build a kernel
> properly and the lovely debs he provides.
> 
> It's a really tiny patch, (5 lines). My hope would be to see network latency
> on the beaglebone improve dramatically with it and fq_codel.
> 
> http://snapon.lab.bufferbloat.net/~d/0001-Add-BQL-support-to-cpsw-beaglebone-d
> river.patch
> 
> But assembling all the pieces to actually build a kernel the right way elude
> me. Right now I'm trying to cross compile using an armeabihf toolchain, and
> not having figured out how to create a .deb file to use...
> link to how to cross compile a .deb kernel build??
http://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black

Build the kernel as shown and then add your patch (either add it to the
/KERNEL directly or add it as a new patch in /patches and update patch.sh).

tools/rebuild_deb.sh

Regards,
John
> 
> 
> OR:
> 
> ... if there's someone out there daring enough to try something that might
> help networking, but might also lock up the networking interface in this first
> test, AND can patch and build a working kernel... I'd love to see this patch
> tried.
> 
> A bit about BQL:
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/454390/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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