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Please Note This article contains outdated information and A388 support is linux kernel mainlined. |
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Most of the support for the chip and the platform is already upstreamed mainline and future releases will be based on LTS kernels that are almost identical to the mainline kernel.
To The main differences between Marvell kernel and mainline are in the network drivers, noticeably –
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git clone –branch linux-4.9.y https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git
export ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=<External ARM toolchain prefix>
make mvebu_v7_defconfig
# optionally modify the default configuration
make zImage dtbs modules
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To build the kernel perform the following on a Linux PC –
export CROSS_COMPILE=<External ARM toolchain prefix>
export ARCH=arm
make mvebu_lsp_defconfig
# optionally modify the default configuration
make zImage dtbs modules
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For additional information on systemd requirements, inlcuding where exactly to find these options, see this helpful wiki page of the Gentoo project: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd#Kernel |