[Arm-netbook] First stab at a custom kernel

[JLB]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Frans Pop wrote:

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> I've uploaded a custom 2.6.33 kernel that I think should support the
> netbook. It is based on the arch/arm/configs/s3c2410_defconfig, with some
> modifications.
>
> The size of the resulting zImage is 1981840, which is just slightly (~30kB)
> larger than the one provided by ChiTech/midfun.
>
> It should support sound and both wired and wireless networking. It should
> hopefully also give a proper framebuffer console (with Tux boot logo). I'm
> not sure about the touchpad.
>
> NOTE: I'm not sure if either of the network drivers will require firmware.
>
> As filesystems ext4 and jffs2 (and msdos/vfat) are compiled in. I've opted
> for only ext4 because current ext4 has built-in backwards compatibility
> support for ext2 and ext3.
>
> I've left a lot of default stuff in, but all modular of course: IPv6
> support, netfilter, all kinds of weird USB devices, all NLS modules. I'd
> probably disable quite a lot of that if I was building a kernel just for
> myself.
>
> There are a few things that probably could be cleaned up, mainly that the
> defconfig had IDE support enabled; I've left it for now, but it's probably
> useless.
>
> I'm thinking hard of trying this new kernel (after installing the modules
> in the root fs) in combination with the provided u-boot...
>
> Files are available from http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/CT-PC89E/ for
> anyone who wants to have a look.
> I'd appreciate if people could look over the config.
>
> Cheers,
> FJP
>
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How would one install such a thing? I can't make heads or tails of 
/dev/mmcblk0p1, which I presume is where the kernel is stashed.