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Build kernel

By following this article, you can build the kernel deb packages, including native and cross compile.

You can do the native compile on RockOS; the cross compile process below is verified on Debian 13 (Trixie).

The produced .deb packages are located in the upper directory of the kernel source, which you can install via dpkg -i.

Native compile​

#!/bin/sh
sudo apt update; sudo apt install -y git gdisk dosfstools build-essential \
                                  libncurses-dev gawk flex bison openssl libssl-dev tree \
                                  dkms libelf-dev libudev-dev libpci-dev libiberty-dev autoconf \
                                  device-tree-compiler xz-utils devscripts ccache debhelper asciidoc \
                                  bc rsync cpio bc rsync cpio python3-dev wget gcc
export board=win2030
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/rockos-riscv/rockos-kernel
pushd rockos-kernel
export KDEB_PKGVERSION="$(make kernelversion)-$(date "+%Y.%m.%d.%H.%M")+$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"
make ${board}_defconfig
make -j$(nproc) dtbs
make -j$(nproc) bindeb-pkg LOCALVERSION="-${board}"
# The debs file will be generated at ../
popd

Cross compile​

We're using Debian 13 (Trixie) as an example here.

You may do the compile inside a Docker container if you need to.

Note: Debian 13 uses GCC 14.2 as of the time writing.

#!/bin/sh
sudo apt update; sudo apt install -y git gdisk dosfstools build-essential \
                                  libncurses-dev gawk flex bison openssl libssl-dev tree \
                                  dkms libelf-dev libudev-dev libpci-dev libiberty-dev autoconf \
                                  device-tree-compiler xz-utils devscripts ccache debhelper asciidoc \
                                  bc rsync cpio bc rsync cpio python3-dev wget gcc-riscv64-linux-gnu
export ARCH=riscv
export board=win2030
export CROSS_COMPILE=riscv64-linux-gnu-
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/rockos-riscv/rockos-kernel
pushd rockos-kernel
export KDEB_PKGVERSION="$(make kernelversion)-$(date "+%Y.%m.%d.%H.%M")+$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"
make ${board}_defconfig
make -j$(nproc) dtbs
make -j$(nproc) bindeb-pkg LOCALVERSION="-${board}"
# The debs file will be generated at ../
popd