[Buildroot] Uncompressed kernel image for ARM architecture (Raspberry)

Belisko Marek marek.belisko at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 09:07:32 UTC 2012


Hi David,

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:01 PM, David Sanchez Herrero
<david.krusty at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there a way to obtain uncompressed kernel image for ARM architecture?
>
> I'm trying to build a kernel and a root filesystem for Raspberry Pi from an
> internal buildroot toolchain with uClibc, but the only supported formats for
> the output kernel image are vmlinux, uImage and zImage.
>
> Downloading the kernel sources from the Raspberry Git repositories, and
> building them manually, an image file called "Image" is generated under
> ".arch/arm/boot/" folder, but this file doesn't exists if the building
> process of the same sources is made by Buildroot. It will prepare boot partition
for RPI automatically.
Maybe you've seen that but to be sure ;):
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2012-September/058499.html
>
> Maybe using BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_IMAGE_TARGET_CUSTOM?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Greeting, David.
>
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Cheers,

marek

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