[Letux-kernel] How to build LetuxOS Android Kernel for LetuxOS Replicant 4.2?

[Andreas Kemnade]

On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 19:19:13 +0200
"H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns at goldelico.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > Am 28.06.2019 um 19:01 schrieb Andreas Kemnade <andreas at kemnade.info>:
> > 
> > On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 18:41:45 +0200
> > "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns at goldelico.com> wrote:
> > 
> > [...]  
> >> What does this mean?
> >> 
> >> * kernel can be built outside of Replicant build system
> >> * uImage can simply be patched over to /boot/uImage  
> > 
> > well, that is obvious, because it can be loaded by 
> > ordinary uboot.  
> 
> Well, not completely. It could have been that it needs some other tweaks.
> 
> >   
> >> * kernel modules are built differently by the Replicant build system or post-processed
> >> * and I have not found where this is done...
> >> 
> >> So if we can find the post-processing script that prepares the kernel modules to /system/lib/modules
> >> we can do the same outside of the Replicant build system.
> >>   
> > after make modules_install to somewhere
> > a oneliner like:
> > 
> > find -name "*.ko" -exec mv \{\} /path/to/system/lib/modules \;  
> 
> That is what I had tried first but it did not load any module...
> Maybe it needs a special depmod to be run.
> 
and simple insmod calls do result in what? simply use adb shell
or call a shell via the init kernel commandline?
and try to insmod from there. We manually load modules there in
the init scripts and the android kernels have their own config.

I have to bring back my memories for these things. I remember
I was the last one working on 4.2.

Regards,
Andreas