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Offline Oifan

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compiling TinyCore kernel + modules -- creating ISO
« on: December 04, 2011, 03:43:36 PM »
Hi folks  :)

Approximately 1 year ago I have found tinyrt-linux -- "A build system for creating real time linux based on Tiny Core Linux" by Sercan Arslan (gitorious.org/tinyrt/linux/trees/master).
It is a set of scripts that download kernel sources, patches, some TC extensions (compiletc, perl5, ncurses-dev, ...) and run make menuconfig, and finally compile the whole kernel with modules + compcache (compcache is actually a compressed swap in RAM).

Only recently I have realized that the standard TinyCore Linux is not tinyrt Linux, so I would like to get/use a similar set of scripts for compiling standard TinyCore Linux, so that I can slightly change kernel configuration (e.g. changing some defaults in "make menuconfig" step). The output should be 2 bootable ISOs (microcore_4.x.iso, tinycore_4.x.iso). In ideal case, this set of scripts should (if no configuration change is made) produce the same 2 ISO images as on TinyCore download page.

I have 2 questions:
  • Is there (on tinycorelinux.net web or elsewhere) such a set of script, or where can I find it ?
  • Has anyone considered adding compcache-like module to the new 3.0.x kernel ?

Thanks.

Offline curaga

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Re: compiling TinyCore kernel + modules -- creating ISO
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2011, 10:14:23 AM »
2. As with TC 3, we have that by default in the base. With the latest kernels it's been merged as zram.
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