How To Patch Google's Android 2.6.32 Kernel

Just a short write-up for anyone who is interested in porting/playing with the current android kernel on their GW620/eve.

DISCLAIMER:
This patch only contains the bare minimum to get the kernel booted.
Only serial console and usb/adb works.
No (and i really mean _NO_) additional hardware beside board/cpu/serial/usb is supported (yet).
This is only useful for developers try to help porting!

you have been warned ;-)

• First of all, get the sources:
  # mkdir android-msm-2.6.32 && cd android-msm-2.6.32
  # git clone git://android.git.kernel.org/kernel/msm.git .
• Now get my patch:
  # wget http://github.com/maldn/eve/raw/master/google-32-eve-minimal.patch
• And apply the patch:
  # cat google-32-eve-minimal.patch | patch -p1
  
• Configure kernel:
  add CONFIG_MACH_EVE to your kernel-config (or if you use menuconfig, select System Type -> [*] eve)
• Build:
  i use ccache, so my cmd-line looks like this:
  # make -j3 ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE="ccache /home/maldn/android/eclair/prebuilt/linux-x86/toolchain/arm-eabi-4.4.0/bin/arm-eabi-"

... that's it. How to get this running is subject to another post, so stay tuned :-)


maldn