On 04/04/2013 09:31 PM, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote: > On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 16:08 +0000, Young, Chad wrote: >> I am looking for the kernel source 3.5.0-rc7 for the ARM versatile express >> system, does anyone know where I can find it? > > I've found another trick, if you can actually booting a Linaro kernel > that you want the source for then early during boot you should see on > the serial console something like: > > [ 0.000000] Linux version 3.9.0-rc3-00212-g0f66281 ... >
You won't get the commit ID always. It basically prints the commit ID if current HEAD is not signed-tagged (or something like that). That is why, the hwpack kernels print like this. Linux version 3.9.0-1-linaro-arndale > or if you have a console running on the device entering > > uname -a > > will give the same result. The part of the name after the '-g' part is > the SHA1 of the git commit from which the kernel was built, e.g. in the > above example it is 0f66281. > > You can then use this commit hash at the end of the URL for the gitweb > interface of the to the git repo like this: > > https://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=kernel/linux-linaro-tracking.git;a=commit;h=0f66281 > > and if the kernel was indeed built from that git repo then you should > see the tip commit of the kernel source used to build the kernel. > > Now, I don't know how long our kernel names have included the SHA1 of > the commit, so for old kernels this may not work. Also, some kernel > releases didn't come out of the main Linaro kernel git. So this method > isn't foolproof. > -- Tushar Behera _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
