Contents - Raspberry PI Community Projects

RPi Kernel Compilation
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Software & Distributions:
Software - an overview.
Distributions - operating
systems and development
environments for the Pi.
Kernel Compilation - advice
on compiling a kernel.
Performance - measures of the
Pi's performance.
Programming - programming
languages that might be used
on the Pi.
Overview
Contents
▪ 1 Overview
▪ 2 From the Raspberry pi
▪ 2.1 Firmware
▪ 2.2 Kernel compilation
▪ 2.2.1 Debian pre-build
▪ 2.2.2 Arch Linux pre-build
▪ 2.2.3 Common
▪ 3 From a foreign machine
▪ 3.1 Firmware
▪ 3.2 Kernel cross compilation
▪ 3.2.1 Ubuntu
▪ 3.2.2 Gentoo Linux
▪ 3.2.3 Arch Linux
▪ 3.2.4 OS X
▪ 3.2.4.1 Macports
▪ 3.2.4.2 Yagarto
▪ 3.3 Transferring The Build
▪ 4 References
First, you are going to get and build the linux kernel and its modules using a suitable
compiler (a "cross-compiler" if you aren't building it on the same hardware you will be
running it on) and then you are going to create a kernel image from the uncompressed
kernel (Image) to place on the sd, along with the modules you build alongside it.