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Offline Arslan S.

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building realtime kernel & remastering for tiny core linux
« on: March 30, 2011, 04:08:11 PM »
i have setup a git repository at gitorious to host build scripts
https://gitorious.org/tinyrt

to download:
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git clone git://gitorious.org/tinyrt/linux.gitor
click linux-->source tree and download master as tar.gz

just run ./build.sh

everything from downloading to packing is automated

pre-built rt kernel and modules images posted in contrib repository
http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/4.x/x86/contrib/rt-kernel/

you can use this script to remaster latest tiny core linux images
https://gitorious.org/tinyrt/linux/blobs/master/extra/remaster-core.sh

build concepts:
  • latest stable linux kernel + tiny core linux patches + PREEMPT_RT patch
  • tiny core linux kernel configure + the principle of disabling latency killer options as much as possible
  • power management and cpu freq scaling is totally disabled, but your power buttons should work :)

read more about rt linux
https://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
« Last Edit: June 09, 2012, 03:59:20 AM by Arslan S. »

Offline Arslan S.

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Re: building realtime kernel & remastering for tiny core linux
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2011, 05:00:14 AM »
first product of the project is hosted in kernel contrib repository and
a script is attached to first post to remaster latest tinycore/microcore images, it is useful because grub does not support multiple initrds, there is a way chainloading a bootloader supporting multiple initrds though

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Re: building realtime kernel & remastering for tiny core linux
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2011, 05:59:54 AM »
Grub is ok with merely cat'ed initrds though. cat tinycore.gz rt-modules.cpio.gz > tinycorert.gz

Less space efficient than repacking, but easier to do.
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Re: building realtime kernel & remastering for tiny core linux
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2011, 06:08:54 AM »
unfortunately grub does not support multiple initrds so use the script attached to this post to remaster latest tinycore/microcore images

Oh? Rather surprising...
I simply tried to load 2 initrd's with linld which is ~5Kb and next to zero documented, and "it just works"   ;D
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Re: building realtime kernel & remastering for tiny core linux
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2011, 10:32:52 AM »
Grub is ok with merely cat'ed initrds though. cat tinycore.gz rt-modules.cpio.gz > tinycorert.gz

Less space efficient than repacking, but easier to do.

i tried cat'ing tinycore.gz with rt-modules.gz before but when i extract the output file i can not find the modules

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Re: building realtime kernel & remastering for tiny core linux
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2011, 10:39:32 AM »
i tried cat'ing tinycore.gz with rt-modules.gz before but when i extract the output file i can not find the modules


The gunzip/cpio tools can't handle that, the kernel can. That's why it's not so good format when you won't have the original files anymore.
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Re: building realtime kernel & remastering for tiny core linux
« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2011, 04:31:49 PM »
unfortunately grub does not support multiple initrds so use the script attached to this post to remaster latest tinycore/microcore images

Oh? Rather surprising...
I simply tried to load 2 initrd's with linld which is ~5Kb and next to zero documented, and "it just works"   ;D
how?
AMD K6-IIIATZ 550MHz MB DFI K6xv3/+66
P4 HP DC7100 3GB 3GHz
Samsung NC10 boot from SD card port (via USB reader)
.. all TinyCore proofed

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Re: building realtime kernel & remastering for tiny core linux
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2011, 05:52:48 PM »
initrd=tinycore.gz,initram2.gz
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Offline Arslan S.

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Re: building realtime kernel & remastering for tiny core linux
« Reply #8 on: June 05, 2012, 03:14:33 AM »
version bump to 3.0
kernel is 3.0.32-x1-rt52 please see the first post
« Last Edit: June 05, 2012, 10:33:43 AM by Arslan S. »

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Re: building realtime kernel & remastering for tiny core linux
« Reply #9 on: August 09, 2012, 03:40:34 AM »
want to try to compile nvidia but no kernel headers for this rt kernel in the repo.

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Re: building realtime kernel & remastering for tiny core linux
« Reply #10 on: August 09, 2012, 05:24:47 AM »
Just use the full kernel source.
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Re: building realtime kernel & remastering for tiny core linux
« Reply #11 on: August 16, 2012, 05:02:52 AM »
or use this tool to build your module
http://code.google.com/p/tc-ext-tools/source/detail?r=858

it is not tested for rt-kernel though

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Re: building realtime kernel & remastering for tiny core linux
« Reply #12 on: August 18, 2012, 03:15:10 AM »
@Arslan S.
I've compiled all from scratch, using the script here and use tce-ext-tools revision 824, and the result is libGL.so* missing.
but I will try to use tce-ext-tools that revision 858. Thank you.  ;D

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Re: building realtime kernel & remastering for tiny core linux
« Reply #13 on: August 18, 2012, 05:29:18 AM »
you should install Xorg-7.5 or Xorg-7.6 for libGL
also use the latest revision r858 is buggy
« Last Edit: August 18, 2012, 06:18:40 AM by Arslan S. »

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Re: building realtime kernel & remastering for tiny core linux
« Reply #14 on: October 20, 2012, 05:00:35 PM »
hi arslan,

looks like a sweet project. unfortunately, i get many 404 not founds during the dl process. are you still maintaining this?

best,
webb