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twobob · 02-23-2013, 10:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by knc1

Well, it wasn't a 3 - - those are still putting up a good fight about getting built.

yeah... I just quickly tested it on a 3. you are of course correct.

*goes to snuffle around in buildroot*

knc1 · 02-23-2013, 10:56 AM

Totally untested - at least until someone tests a few of these and reports back here.

This first attempt was a brute force, if it stood still long enough to build, wasn't already there, then build it as a module approach.

Probably a lot of useless stuff here for a Kindle, but then again, maybe a few hidden nuggets of gold.

Like: NBD driver, NFS-3 driver, CIFS driver, OSS driver, .....
Plan9 resource sharing, tipc distributed resources, ad-hock (peer-to-peer) wifi . . . .

You will need knowledge of how to manually determine dependencies (modinfo), manually insert (insmod) and manually remove (rmmod) modules from a running kernel.

Tar-ball has a base directory of 'lib/modules/version' (just like your work station would have).
You **must** be 'root' to get these things properly un-packed.

The lib/firmware sub-tree is not included in the tar-ball.

For the curious, there are 306 of them in the tar-ball:

Spoiler:

knc1 · 02-23-2013, 11:00 AM

twobob · 02-23-2013, 11:01 AM

will do.

knc1 · 02-23-2013, 11:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baf

I did. The only difference is initramfs/initrd support turned off (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is not set) in published config, probably because it would not build without initramfs source.

You have yet to mention with source code version and build number you did that difference with.

The one I used, is most certainly different, a whole lot different.

twobob · 02-23-2013, 11:08 AM

quick question..
[root@kindle root]# finder insmod

Quote:

/sbin/insmod
/sbin/insmod.static
/sbin/insmod.26

what exactly is insmod.26? any clues?

twobob · 02-23-2013, 11:11 AM

[root@kindle root]# insmod /mnt/us/kernel/fs/binfmt_misc.ko

Quote:

insmod: error inserting '/mnt/us/kernel/fs/binfmt_misc.ko': -1 Invalid module format

[root@kindle root]# insmod /mnt/us/kernel/fs/exportfs/exportfs.ko*

Quote:

insmod: error inserting '/mnt/us/kernel/fs/exportfs/exportfs.ko': -1 Invalid module format

[root@kindle root]# insmod /mnt/us/kernel/fs/9p/9p.ko

Quote:

insmod: error inserting '/mnt/us/kernel/fs/9p/9p.ko': -1 Invalid module format

hmm...

kind of reminds me of something...

ah yeah found it
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...9&postcount=30

knc1 · 02-23-2013, 11:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by twobob

quick question..
[root@kindle root]# finder insmod

what exactly is insmod.26? any clues?

Not a clue.

knc1 · 02-23-2013, 11:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by twobob

[root@kindle root]# insmod /mnt/us/kernel/fs/binfmt_misc.ko

[root@kindle root]# insmod /mnt/us/kernel/fs/exportfs/exportfs.ko*
[root@kindle root]# insmod /mnt/us/kernel/fs/9p/9p.ko

hmm...

kind of reminds me of something...

ah yeah found it
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...9&postcount=30

Yeah, could be able to blame that on the compiler version.

I am using a 4.6.x series, might be different if I dropped back to the same gcc series that lab126 used.
(Thank goodness, I did put all of them into the KeK resource pool).

Could you try the same test on your K4 please?
(With the 2.6.31 modules of course.)

twobob · 02-23-2013, 11:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by knc1

Not a clue.

fair enough

me@dev ~/diff $ diff -s ./insmod ./insmod.26
Files ./insmod and ./insmod.26 are identical

hmm...

[root@kindle /sbin]# ls -al insmod

Quote:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Sep 1 21:29 insmod -> /sbin/insmod.26

oh

duh!

twobob · 02-23-2013, 11:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by knc1

Yeah, could be able to blame that on the compiler version.

I am using a 4.6.x series, might be different if I dropped back to the same gcc series that lab126 used.
(Thank goodness, I did put all of them into the KeK resource pool).

Could you try the same test on your K4 please?
(With the 2.6.31 modules of course.)

I have no k4.

sorry.

knc1 · 02-23-2013, 11:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by twobob

I have no k4.

sorry.

You still have a K5-touch?
Same, same modules work on K4, K5-touch, K5-paperwhite.

baf · 02-23-2013, 12:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by knc1

You have yet to mention with source code version and build number you did that difference with.

The one I used, is most certainly different, a whole lot different.

I referred to KT 5.1.2. Now I had a look at 3.3 source and Amazon config is identical with one you posted:

Code:

diff dot-config-3.4 kindle_src_3.3.src/linux-2.6.26/arch/arm/configs/imx35_luigi_defconfig 
4c4
< # Sat Sep  1 14:28:21 2012
---
> # Mon Sep 13 10:06:27 2010

baf · 02-23-2013, 12:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by knc1

You still have a K5-touch?
Same, same modules work on K4, K5-touch, K5-paperwhite.

The modules you posted load fine on KT. I just tried a couple of them.

knc1 · 02-23-2013, 12:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baf

The modules you posted load fine on KT. I just tried a couple of them.

Thanks!

Will see what is wrong with the K3 module build.
I pulled the tar-ball until I get that problem fixed.

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