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8 years ago

Building a custom kernel for the DE1-SoC...

I want to add some devices to the kernel and have been following the ws2 linux kernel introduction for altera soc devices - lab 3 - soc fpga linux kernel (https://rocketboards.org/foswiki/view/docume...
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8 years ago

I must've missed out the update in this thread - well, that's the drawback of subscribing to too many of these :)

If you are doing something close to Terasic's 1604 release, note that you'll need the some additional frame driver that may not be included in the default .defconfig file. I would propose following the linaro's example here:

https://rocketboards.org/foswiki/view/projects/sockitlinarolinuxdesktop

except that you can switch out the kernel to Altera's own git and follow the instruction here:

https://rocketboards.org/foswiki/view/documentation/embeddedlinuxbeginnersguide

(press the > button until you reach "8. Configuring and Compiling Linux Kernel")

Sorry I couldn't be of a better help, I've not ventured far down this path myself...