Spectris Arcom VIPER Quick Start Manual page 20

VIPER RedBoot and AEL Quickstart
Linux kernel
The version of the Linux kernel used on the VIPER is a standard Linux kernel tree with
patches to provide support for Arcom's boards.
Source and configuration
The kernel sources are installed in the host environment as /opt/arcom/src/linux-source-
VERSION.tar.gz.
Once you have unpacked the kernel source you can configure the default VIPER kernel
with:
$ make ARCH=arm viper_defconfig
The kernel may now be built and installed as described in the AEL Technical Manual.
Default command line
The default kernel command line is:
root=/dev/mtdblock2 rootfstype=jffs2 ro console=ttyS0,115200
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