[Odroid XU4 kernel release missing some options in config]

Hello everyone,

 

I'm wondering if is possible to include in future releases of the Armbian Kernels these options:

 

CONFIG_NETLABEL

CONFIG_MPTCP

CONFIG_NET_VRF
CONFIG_OF_UNITTEST

CONFIG_OF_DYNAMIC

CONFIG_OF_OVERLAY

CONFIG_INET_MPTCP_DIAG

CONFIG_MPLS_ROUTING

CONFIG_MPLS_IPTUNNEL

CONFIG_NLMON

CONFIG_NET_VRF

CONFIG_GTP

CONFIG_GENEVE

CONFIG_IPVTAP

CONFIG_IFB

 

I'm playing around with my Odroid XU4 and I notice that I'm missing such options and drivers compiled in the Kernel. As an example Debian has these options enabled by default.

In my case I created a script that is getting the Armbian Odroid XU4 kernel sources, applying these settings in config and rebuild the kernel.

 

 

 

[ArmBian Kernel for OdroidXU4 is failing to compile with -C KERNEL_SOURCES O=SOMEWHERE_ELSE option]

Hi,

 

I'm trying to compile the Odroid-XU4 kernel using a make -C KERNEL_SOURCES O=SOMEWHERE_ELSE/mybuild.

This command will failed when it reaches these drivers in drivers/net/wireless: rtl8188eu, rtl8189es, rtl8189fs, rtl8192eu, rtl8723ds, rtl8723du, rtl8811cu, rtl8812au, rtl8822bs, rtl88x2bu, rtl88x2cs.

To be able to compile the Kernel outside of the source tree I had to modify this list of files below. This is an output of my scipt wich is searching an replacing and replacing "-I$(src)" with "-I$(souce)/$(src)"

 

Fixing compilation for driver rtl8188eu ..
  Makefile
  phydm.mk
  sd4_phydm_2_kernel.mk
  ap_makefile.mk
Fixing compilation for driver rtl8189es ..
  Makefile
Fixing compilation for driver rtl8189fs ..
  Makefile
Fixing compilation for driver rtl8192eu ..
  Makefile
  phydm.mk
  sd4_phydm_2_kernel.mk
  ap_makefile.mk
Fixing compilation for driver rtl8723ds ..
  Makefile
Fixing compilation for driver rtl8723du ..
  Makefile
  phydm.mk
  sd4_phydm_2_kernel.mk
  ap_makefile.mk
Fixing compilation for driver rtl8811cu ..
  Makefile
  phydm.mk
  ap_makefile.mk
  rtl8821c.mk
Fixing compilation for driver rtl8812au ..
  Makefile
  phydm.mk
  sd4_phydm_2_kernel.mk
  ap_makefile.mk
Fixing compilation for driver rtl8822bs ..
  Makefile
  phydm.mk
  rtl8822b.mk
Fixing compilation for driver rtl88x2bu ..
  Makefile
  phydm.mk
  sd4_phydm_2_kernel.mk
  ap_makefile.mk
  halmac.mk
  rtl8822b.mk
Fixing compilation for driver rtl88x2cs ..
  Makefile
  phydm.mk
  sd4_phydm_2_kernel.mk
  ap_makefile.mk
  halmac.mk
  rtl8822c.mk

 

The script I used to fix this issue is this:

 

    for i in rtl8188eu rtl8189es rtl8189fs rtl8192eu rtl8723ds rtl8723du rtl8811cu rtl8812au rtl8822bs rtl88x2bu rtl88x2cs; do
        if [[ -d "${SOURCE_DIR}/drivers/net/wireless/$i" ]]; then
            echo "Fixing compilation for driver $i .."
            if [[ -f "${SOURCE_DIR}/drivers/net/wireless/$i/Makefile" ]]; then
                echo "  Makefile"
                sed -i -e "s/-I\$(src)/-I \$(srctree)\/\$(src)/g" "${SOURCE_DIR}/drivers/net/wireless/$i/Makefile"
            fi

            ### Also there are multiple .mk files with the same issue.
            for j in `find "${SOURCE_DIR}/drivers/net/wireless/$i/" -name *.mk -type f`; do
                echo "  $(basename $j)"
                sed -i "s/-I\$(src)/-I \$(srctree)\/\$(src)/g" "${j}"
            done
        fi
    done

 

There ${SOURCE_DIR} is obviously the Kernel sources from ArmBian.

 

Hope you can fix this issue in the next release of the kernel.

[My apt search has become super slow recently]

HI all,

 

I have a new Armbian installed and the search on Odroid C2 is about 116 minutes ..

 

# time apt search mali
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done

aewm/stable 1.3.12-3 arm64
  minimalist window manager for X11
...
zathura/stable 0.4.3-1 arm64
  document viewer with a minimalistic interface

real    116m51.972s
user    114m27.114s
sys     2m10.154s

 

On my Odroid XU4 is very fast, but is using Armbian 32 bit.