Buildroot on the Gumstix Verdex XL6P

Hello internet,

Should you attempt to compile the Buildroot toolchain so you can build a new filesystem image for your Gumstix Verdex board, you will find that as of mid-2009, files.gumstix.com no longer hosts several of the files that you will need. However, you can find them elsewhere on the web.

A handy shortcut is to replace the files.gumstix.com URL in gumstix-buildroot/toolchain/getter_script.sh with a different URL where most of the files appear: www.daimi.au.dk/~spider/gumstix/gumstix-buildroot/dl/. Thanks are due to the wise and honorable Martin Mogensen at the University of Aarhus for hosting the files. You'll also need this file in your gumstix-buildroot/dl folder: xmlsoft.org/sources/old/libxml2-sources-2.6.29.tar.gz

Lastly, you'll want to add to the file gumstix-buildroot/build_arm_nofpu/linux-2.6.21gum/scripts/mod/sumversion.c the line:

#include <limits.h>

or you'll get the error "error: ‘PATH_MAX’ undeclared (first use in this function)."

Fixed version of gumstix-buildroot/toolchain/getter_script.sh:

#!/bin/bash
wget -nd --passive-ftp $@ || (
echo Retrying from gumstix alternate site...
index=$#-1
# Copy all params into an array
for (( i=0; $?==0; i++ ));do a[$i]=$1; shift; done
# Chop all but filename from last param and prepend out URL
a[$index]=${a[index]/*\//http:\/\/www.daimi.au.dk/~spider/gumstix/gumstix-buildroot/dl/}
# Now wget that from out server
wget -nd ${a[@]}
)

Just a few other notes, since I finally got the Ethernet port working with Gumstix SVN r1642:

/etc/network/interfaces

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface usb0 inet dhcp

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

/etc/modules, with correct Ethernet driver selected (smc91x, not smc911x)

# MMC support -- comment the next two lines to enable using CF
mmc_block
pxamci

# Compact Flash support -- Must load smc91x or smc911x first!!
smc91x
#smc911x
pcmcia

# Load USB host driver
ohci-hcd

Output of lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by
ipv6                  248416  10
af_packet              16872  2
proc_gpio               9412  0
gumstix_bluetooth       1408  0
ohci_hcd               19620  0
usbcore               113340  2 ohci_hcd
pxa2xx_cs               3336  1
pxa2xx_core            10368  1 pxa2xx_cs
pcmcia                 25064  0
pcmcia_core            30576  2 pxa2xx_core,pcmcia
firmware_class          7520  1 pcmcia
smc91x                 16104  0
mii                     4736  1 smc91x
gumstix_smc91x          2816  1 smc91x
pxamci                  6240  0
mmc_block               6568  0
mmc_core               22100  2 pxamci,mmc_block
unix                   22292  18