kernel building mt6582....ramblings

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ramblings as I am not organised just doing online notes to myself in no particular order

Having bought a new PC and installed Xubuntu 64 bit on it, its time to look if I can build a kernel for my phone.....mt6582



Building a Kernel from source{Mediatek}
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MasterAwesome

2) one of the differences is I won't try an emulator

because I know how to mod a recovery image, I shall inject my new kernel and use mobileuncle or fastboot to flash the new recovery

--- no need to worry about kernel modules in recovery mode

3) I have already looked.....there is no config anywhere in my /proc or system files.....but I can get lsmod output off phone to see what modules are currently running on it.


now to have time to do it.....can anyone give me their spare time?
giggles

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one of the things we need is a toolchain

EDIT
Just found out a gotcha....can't use 4.7 need to use 4.6

Code:

git clone https://android.googlesource.com/platform/prebuilts/gcc/linux-x86/arm/arm-eabi-4.6

this produces a folder called.......150 Mb unpacked size
/home/<yourname>/arm-eabi-4.6/

and the kernel source for our cross compile stuff

Code:

git clone https://github.com/kashifmin/MT6582-KK-KERNEL.git

produces a folder called...............size unpacked is 2.4 Gb

I repeat 2400 Mb in case you think its a typo

/home/<yourname>/MT6582-KK-KERNEL/