On 2008.05.12. 20:31:38 Brian Oostenbrink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> We certainly will consider donating a couple of boards.  They are in a
> bit of short supply right now, so not sure yet when we'd be able to free
> a couple up.
> However, I'm not sure how having hardware would help to answer the
> questions I raised, as they are really about the architecture of the
> build system.

Sounds good, thanks! I think Gregers meant that we could actually answer better
to the integration/optimization questions given we have the hardware, too. Of 
course
your current questions were mostly "starters before the lunch" I think :)
I would be happy to help in getting the needed patches working with newer 
kernels, too.

> I managed to resolve the third question I raised
> (compilation error), and have managed to build a working image for my
> board, using a ram filesystem. I'm now working on getting the squashfs
> filesystem working with our kernel.  I've chosen to work with the 7.09
> release of kamikaze for now, and have simply added my own kernel version
> to the workspace.  I've added a patched-2.6.20 directory to
> target/linux/generic-2.6 and this allows me to control exactly which
> patches are applied against my kernel, but it seems wrong to have to
> modify the generic-2.6 folder to get what I want.  If there is a way to
> accomplish this inside my target/linux/<my_platform> dir, that would
> seem a better way to go.

What you did sounds right. If general, if you want to add support for a 
different kernel
version, you have to place the patches in 
target/linux/generic-2.6/patches-x.y.z and
create a target/linux/generic-2.6/config-x.y.z if needed, too. If you don't 
want to
have all the current generic openwrt patches, you can simply avoid them in the 
new directory.


Cheers,
Imre
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