Re: ARM kernel cross compilation issues for iMX53

[Hector Oron <hector.oron@gmail.com>]

Hello,

2012/3/25 Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 04:13:22PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> They're fine for us. I started using the Freescale 2.6.35 kernel, then
>> moved over to mainline with 3.2.0. Networking and SATA work fine
>> there, but USB is still not quite there yet...

> Are you using Debian's 3.2.0-2-mx5 kernel, or building your own from
> scratch?
>
> I have been trying to boot the 3.2.0-2-mx5 kernel on the mx53 QSB,
> and no luck so far.
>
> The kernel config says IMX53LOCO=y, which to me means the kernel should
> support this board.

Yes, Debian armhf kernel supports i.MX53 LOCO boards.

Configure u-boot as described at (make sure partition is <1GB), I
usually use 100MB
  < http://blog.einval.com/2011/09/05#armhf_buildds >

Install debian kernel package for mx5. Make sure initramfs is
generated. Run later flash-kernel (>=3.0~rc.4) to generate
uImage/uInitrd.

Being mainline kernel, expect few things to work, at least SATA,
serial and MMC/SD support is there.

Cheers,
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