Re: trying to build linux kernel deb for linux-rt-devel-4.16.18-rt9
On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 12:43 PM Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
>
> but I'm hitting a missing tools problem.
>
> make uImage bails out looking for mkimage, which doesn't seem to be in
> the repos. I googled for it, and downloaded tool-master.zip, but its
> apparently cross-compiling stuff to be run on x86. Only two Makefiles
> in a 907 meg when unpacked .zip from github. It contains a mkimage
> directory but no Makefile to build it. Its apparently a python thing as
> shown here:
> pi@picnc:/media/pi/workpi1/tools-master/mkimage $ ls -l
> total 48
> -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 157 Jan 12 2018 args-uncompressed.txt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 201 Jan 12 2018 boot-uncompressed.txt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 32768 Jan 12 2018 first32k.bin
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 822 Jan 12 2018 imagetool-uncompressed.py
> -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 343 Jan 12 2018 README
> pi@picnc:/media/pi/workpi1/tools-master/mkimage $ python imagetool-uncompressed.py
> usage : imagetool-uncompressed.py <kernel image>
> pi@picnc:/media/pi/workpi1/tools-master/mkimage $
>
> Am I supposed to setup an alias to run that "in place" or what?
>
> Where do I find and install that on an rpi-3b running raspian stretch, uptodate?
>
> Or better yet, your version of stretch for an rpi-3b that includes armhf
> versions of all these tools in "build-essential"?
https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=mkimage&mode=exactfilename&suite=stable&arch=any
Regards,
--
Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/
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