[Voyage-linux] building the voyage kernel

[Jon Meek]

How about adding swap space on a USB disk (assuming it is an out of
memory issue)? When I build software for a Voyage system I always do
it on an external disk to save wear on the CF card.

Jon

2009/12/2 David Murray <dave.murray.murdoch at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently using the experimental build of voyage because I want to use
> open 802.11s which only comes with the latest kernel. However, I also want
> to try out Layer 2 batman or batman experimental which requires the kernel
> headers. As there are no headers for my kernel (2.6.30-486-voyage) I am
> trying to build them from the kernel-source. I am following the instructions
> found here [1]. When I do my make, I get the following error:
>
>  CHK     include/linux/version.h
>   CHK     include/linux/utsrelease.h
>   SYMLINK include/asm -> include/asm-x86
>   CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
>   CHK     include/linux/compile.h
> dnsdomainname: Unknown host
>   LZMA    arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.lzma
> lzma: Cannot allocate memory
>   LD      arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.o
> ld: arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.lzma: No such file: No such file or
> directory
> make[2]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2
> make: *** [bzImage] Error 2
>
> It seems that the ALIX boards with 256 MB/s of memory cannot create
> "arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.lzma" becuase they run out of memory.
> Has anyone on this list encountered this problem before? I would prefer not
> to cross compile as it seems a little complicated when I just want to
> install batman-advanced. Can anyone give me some suggestions? Am I doing
> everything correctly?
>
> Thanks
> Dave
>
> [1] http://wiki.voyage.hk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=voyage_kernel
>
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