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Development - Building Kernels

1. Introduction

This document covers all steps required to build the installer for EfikaMX devices but can be extrapolate to other devices

2. Requeriments

To build the media installer for a device you'll need to complete these steps:

• ToolchainSetup Obviously you need a toolchain framework
• BuildingPackages At least you need to have all core packages
• BuildingKernels You'll need a valid zImage + modules directory for your device

3. Checkout git sources for initrd

 $ cd /devel/crux-arm
 $ git clone git://crux-arm.nu/initrd.git
 $ cd initrd
 $ git branch 2.7 origin/2.7
 $ git checkout 2.7

4. Build the initrd image

 $ cd /devel/crux-arm/initrd
 $ sudo make

5. Checkout git sources for uboot tools

 $ cd /devel/crux-arm
 $ git clone git://crux-arm.nu/uboot.git

6. Build uboot stuff

 $ cd /devel/crux-arm/uboot
 $ make efikamx

7. Put all contents in the media device

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