Build Kernel Image Download a source copy from mini2440 kernel project into the /usr/src/kernels directory and

decompress the zip file.

gzip -cd mini2440-stable.tar.gz |tar xvf

A new directory 'mini2440' is created. Optionally, change the directory name and create a reference link to the kernel directory.

mv mini2440 mini2440-2.6.32.7 ln -s mini2440-2.6.32.7 arm-linux

Create a kernel configuration file base on the old config_mini2440_n35 file from an earlier version eg. linux-2.6.29 from the Mini2440 package.

cd arm-linux make clean cp /usr/src/kernels/linux-2.6.29/config_mini2440_n35 ./.config ARCH=arm make oldconfig

Press enter to select all the default settings, when finish a new .config file is generated while the old one is save in the .config.old. Optionally, create a default configuration file if you don't have an existing .config file, this will produce the largest general-purpose configuration.

ARCH=arm make mini2440_defconfig

Change the kernel configuration setting below.

ARCH=arm make menuconfig

Go to 'File Systems' --> 'Network File Systems' --> Select 'NFS client support for NFS' and 'Root file system on NFS' --- Network File Systems <*> NFS client support [*] NFS client support for NFS version 3 [*] NFS client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension [*] NFS client support for NFS version 4 (EXPERIMENTAL) [ ] NFS client support for NFSv4.1 (DEVELOPER ONLY)

[*] Root file system on NFS < > NFS server support

Go to 'Networking Support' --> 'Networking Options' --> Select the 'IP: kernel level autoconfiguration [*] IP: kernel level autoconfiguration [*] IP: DHCP support [*] IP: BOOTP support [*] IP: RARP support

Go to 'File System' --> 'Pseudo filesystems' --> Select 'Virtual memory file system support' [*] /proc file system support [*] Sysctl support (/proc/sys) [*] Enable /proc page monitoring [*] sysfs file system support [*] Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs) [*] Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists

Build the kernel image.

ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- make zImage cp -rf arch/arm/boot/zImage /var/lib/tftpboot

Build the kernel modules, if there are modules setup in the configuration file.

ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- make modules ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- make modules_install

Finally, compressed the kernel image to include checksum and header records require for use with u-boot.

mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x30008000 -e 0x30008000 -d ./zImage ./uImage

Image Name: Created: Tue Mar 2 22:51:28 2010

Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed) Data Size: 2053096 Bytes = 2004.98 kB = 1.96 MB Load Address: 30008000 Entry Point: 30008000 When finish without errors, the uImage file will be used to flash the kernel image.