It is based on Linux 3.10 (longterm maintenance release) and uses Debian's default config for kirkwood. Unlike johnou's kernel it doesn't include some nice patches but it supports ext4fs and other stuff.
- https://github.com/johnou/debian_stora_kernel/
- http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,13355,13367#msg-13367
wget https://github.com/kirov/stora-debian-kernel/releases/download/v3.10.26/linux-image-3.10.26-stora_1_armel.deb
dpkg -i linux-image-3.10.26-stora_1_armel.deb
mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x00008000 -e 0x00008000 -n Linux-3.10.26-stora -d /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.26-stora /boot/uImage
mkimage -A arm -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip -a 0x00000000 -e 0x00000000 -n initramfs-3.10.26-stora -d /boot/initrd.img-3.10.26-stora /boot/uInitrd
If you need headers:
wget https://github.com/kirov/stora-debian-kernel/releases/download/v3.10.26/linux-headers-3.10.26-stora_1_armel.deb
dpkg -i linux-headers-3.10.26-stora_1_armel.deb
You will need Debian/Ubuntu machine for this.
First we install packages
apt-get install emdebian-archive-keyring
echo "deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/emdebian/toolchains wheezy main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get install build-essential fakeroot libncurses5-dev g++-arm-linux-gnueabi
We need to remove architecture validation from /usr/bin/dpkg-gencontrol
. Backup this file first!
if (field_get_dep_type($_)) {
# Delay the parsing until later
} elsif (m/^Architecture$/) {
my $host_arch = get_host_arch();
$fields->{$_} = $v;
# validation removed.. :)
} else {
field_transfer_single($pkg, $fields);
}
Download and prepare Linux kernel sources
wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.10.26.tar.xz
tar Jxf linux-3.10.26.tar.xz
cd linux-3.10.26
patch -p1 < ../0001-Support-for-Netgear-Stora.patch
cp ../config-3.10.26-stora .config
Configure (optional step)
make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- menuconfig
And finally build the kernel
make -j`getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN` ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- EXTRAVERSION=-stora KDEB_PKGVERSION=1 KBUILD_DEBARCH=armel deb-pkg