The stock Raspberry Pi kernel, as supplied with the default Raspbian distribution, is pretty good – albeit not always especially streamlined. However, building a custom kernel with different options can be an unexpected minefield: many seemingly innocuous changes can cause the Pi to fail to boot – often with the VideoCore system failing to initialise or with USB networking problems.
There follows a list of patches and observations which should hope to make this process less trial-and-error…
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Mar 7 2013
Compiling a new Raspberry Pi kernel
The stock Raspberry Pi kernel, as supplied with the default Raspbian distribution, is pretty good – albeit not always especially streamlined. However, building a custom kernel with different options can be an unexpected minefield: many seemingly innocuous changes can cause the Pi to fail to boot – often with the VideoCore system failing to initialise or with USB networking problems.
There follows a list of patches and observations which should hope to make this process less trial-and-error…
More
By Stuart • Technology, UNIX 3