Kernel 3.14 or above for ubuntu 14.04 is required

tedd77

busybee Posted at 3/21/2016 09:45
It seems that androidtool did not read the address from parameter info on board. You need to manully ...

Hello Busybee,
I succeeded to flash it to the board however I still have kernel 3.10.

I also noticed the following after running the command :
make INSTALL_MOD_PATH=./modules_install modules_install

INSTALL drivers/gpu/arm/midgard/mali_kbase.ko
  INSTALL drivers/media/usb/gspca/gspca_main.ko
  DEPMOD  3.10.0

Kernel 3.10.0 is of no use to me. Could you please investigate and let me know?

tedd77

busybee Posted at 3/24/2016 15:37
Hi @tedd77, what specific feature you'd like from kernel newer than 3.10 ?

I wanted to compile some voice codecs and for that I should be able to run the following command without getting any errors.
apt-get install -y linux-headers-`uname -r`

I thought the purpose of the topic is to get a newer or a supported kernel version. The version 3.10 seems to be very old and not supported anymore.

tedd77

busybee Posted at 3/25/2016 18:03
According to https://www.kernel.org/ ,  version 3.10 is the LTS version, and it is the vendor versio ...

Hello ,
I am not a linux guru as I told you from the beginning, I would really appreciate if you can help me complete this task.
My goal is to be able to compile on your board without having issues related to linux headers.
Could you please send me the commands in order to overcome this obstacle?
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Since you have the kernel source code. It is farely easy build the module from it, by speicifying the kernel source directory in the command line.  <<< do this on the firefly board or on my linux machine ? and what is the command ? >>>>>

Please see the module readme. <<<<< what module readme ? where is it ?>>>>>>
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Thank you in advance

tedd77

busybee Posted at 3/30/2016 15:30
In your prevous post, you mention that
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Hello Busybee,

After letting me struggle for over a month, you finally realized that your image/board does not come with linux headers package. I am now more disappointed.
I do not regret giving you the benefit of the doubt, at least now I know that your board has a major handicap when it comes to linux. therefore I consider the time wasted a contribution from me towards those who are thinking of buying your board.

Today your board is a pure android oriented device so people trying to use it with Linux must understand that there are obstacles that cannot be overcome.

What does it take you to build an image with linux headers packed ? I am very confident that a huge community is looking for a powerful board like yours with  full fledged linux. At this point unfortunately I regret to say that it is not the case of your board.

Finally I do not expect a positive answer and I consider this case closed. I hope my experience will help Linux fans to think twice before making a decision.