Kernel Build

linuxBill · 03-24-2003, 02:07 PM

I'm a fairly new linux (RedHat 7.3) user and am doing my first kernel build. I am running into the following error after running make bzImage:

drivers/i2c/i2c.o(.text.init.+0xc0): undefined reference to
'i2c_i810i2c_init'

In regards to make xconfig, can anyone tell me what I should turn off to remove this error? Or is there something that should be turned on that I missed? Or is there something else that should be done?

Thanks,

Bill

Palin · 03-24-2003, 02:12 PM

Are you trying a development kernel? If you are the last time I tried to compile one there was a lot of stuff that hadn't been converted to their new API or atleast that's what I got from reading through some mailing lists.

The thing that is throwing the error is i2c device support. You would have to start disabling things in that subsection of the kernel. (At least that is what I think is throwing the error)

linuxBill · 03-24-2003, 02:22 PM

No, I'm not trying a development kernel. I had previously posted a question concerning a band around a display while using xawtv which could not be answered. This led me to trying to add new driver support and I thought it was time to learn to build a kernel. So far, I've run 9 builds without getting a valid kernel. This was the latest error. I've tried turning off things in i2o. Is this the correct location?

Regards,

Bill

Tinkster · 03-24-2003, 02:28 PM

Sometimes when you start getting unresolved
symbol errors a make clean before
make dep && make bzImage
helps...

Cheers,
Tink

linuxBill · 03-24-2003, 02:43 PM

Tink,
I ran make clean before make dep and make bzImage. This is really frustrating.

Bill

Tinkster · 03-24-2003, 09:05 PM

Doh :/

How about saving .config to $HOME,
run make mrproper, copy it back and retry?

Cheers,
Tink

linuxBill · 03-25-2003, 10:36 AM

Tink,
I did try that before, but it didn't work. I did however get a good compile after findind the i2c section of the config.

Thanks to everyone for their efforts to help me fix my problem.

Regards,

Bill