Building 3.10 kernel on ARM Chromebook

[John Dulaney]

I was wondering if anyone has had success with building the 3.10 kernel on the ARM Chromebook.  All I get is a black screen, although I can connect to the serial console via uart.

[Olof Johansson]

3.10 was going to be this: >< close to being able to boot with a
simple framebuffer console, but the simplefb driver didn't make it in
during the merge window.

As of 3.11, booting a mainline kernel should be possible. I'll do a
writeup once the pieces have landed.


-Olof

2013/5/22 John Dulaney <jhdu...@gmail.com>:

> I was wondering if anyone has had success with building the 3.10 kernel on
> the ARM Chromebook. All I get is a black screen, although I can connect to
> the serial console via uart.
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[Thomas Hoff]

I managed to get a 3.10 kernel compiled via this method.

sudo apt-get install build-essential git u-boot-tools qemu-user-static gdisk cgpt libncurses5-dev flex bison vboot-kernel-utils debootstrap gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf

cd /usr/src

git clone git://github.com/virtualopensystems/linux-kvm-arm.git

cd linux-kvm-arm

git checkout origin/chromebook-3.10 -b chromebook-3.10

curl http://www.virtualopensystems.com/media/chromebook/config > .config

ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- make uImage dtbs -j4

#chainloading uboot method

sudo mount /dev/mmcblk1p3 /mnt

sudo cp arch/arm/boot/uImage /mnt

sudo cp arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5250-snow.dtb /mnt

sudo umount /mnt


I  pulled most of that from this: http://www.virtualopensystems.com/media/chromebook/chromebook.pdf