Compiling Kernel; Generation Filesystem; Linux System Customization; Entering Configuration Menu - Embest SBC8600B User Manual

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After all the instructions are executed, you can find booting images named MLO and
u-boot.img under current directory.

3.5.2 Compiling Kernel

Execute the following instructions to compile kernel;
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cd linux-4.1
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make distclean
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make embest_ti_sbc8600_defconfig
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make uImage
After all the instructions are executed, you can find a kernel image named uImage
under arch/arm/boot.

3.5.3 Generation Filesystem

Currently SBC8600B Linux provide two format filesystem: Ramdisk and UBI, the
Ramdisk is used when the board boot from TF card, the UBI is used when the board boot
from NAND Flash

3.6 Linux System Customization

In order to satisfy different requirements of customers, designers commonly need to
make some custom modification based on the default configuration of Linux kernel. This
chapter will introduce the process of system customization by showing you some
examples.

3.6.1 Entering Configuration Menu

A default configuration file is provided in the factory kernel source codes:
Linux-4.1/arch/arm/configs/embest_ti_sbc8600_defconfig
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