From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751790AbbEYBMI (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 May 2015 21:12:08 -0400 Received: from omr1.cc.vt.edu ([198.82.141.52]:60265 "EHLO omr1.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751465AbbEYBME (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 May 2015 21:12:04 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.8.0 04/21/2012 with nmh-1.6+dev To: John Whitmore Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RaspberryPi "is this a real kernel?" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 May 2015 11:32:36 +0100." <20150524103235.GA7663@bamboo.electronicsoup> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20150524103235.GA7663@bamboo.electronicsoup> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1432516316_2099P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 21:11:56 -0400 Message-ID: <36886.1432516316@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1432516316_2099P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sun, 24 May 2015 11:32:36 +0100, John Whitmore said: > $ ./mkknlimg ../../linux/arch/arm/boot/zImage 3.18.0-can+.img > tail: +: invalid number of bytes > * Is this a valid kernel? In pass-through mode. Looks like they try to use 'tail' to skip over something, but the + sign in your uname -r gives it indigestion. Try building with a version name that doesn't include a + sign, and complain to the maintainers of mkknlimg that they've probably got a parameter quoting problem (most likely, there's someplace a tail -this -that $foo needs to be tail -this -that "$foo" --==_Exmh_1432516316_2099P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iQIVAwUBVWJ23AdmEQWDXROgAQJkkQ/8CWIVJKYk3dGsixYf12rMMuwF5WYUe3M5 LGVeubZ2rdww6WzH1SmCCxKtOCFTQlwk5u5PCLqxGE4/aZNLj0GGe0+5XLFIxrrV FcyDuqHCp/F7fQhEnTw6uHC6CbY1gdIsOOJ+vyg+icGd2hBYyuuzSVohoHUJAlY5 9xl6TAejIXBZG184BHcL7LXvryhUiEZ6PbAjjdfM82kUyGG0nL7/kU+LrRCWlvup JgcEv4kvLCZ0ydzPilG04sirSqJJ7I/jayBJICysTkuRFu+zicnPwlbbw20Zx2an c9gAecwoDVFO8BcjYrkNHLmYVAzMVYtcO4cOg4V/2Yqc0hhcq2XYbdF6f0DHeRSb 8roYkbRdVKiRKWiksnj+owiXm+gIn4wwR/0MsjGh6d+FCnHl58lmM2GHAuMmWwMk DcUN9zj0GqPrxrt0b7FC/IrJH3Mwa23QvgvDdfoE4NMCzrXCKEVxggpf99rk51Kz Q6p9TzcVYdJ9DqtKT3PAYo1BJ8n5nGlM2o9f3x3FiZUyvBNxBBaFtjetlW3zmPKV ppQZUhhBAJEfpjBslgXK2LWBEcsFsvUGIEAmuLFT53+7yJ+Vh8V6HVGJ2IzBzFPP wZYZT3+Uy+0DjOA9/4XSyAYbNPaENicfMoF21UrScZGv6pA84FaKEzi2aX5WLqCY YNFpllKvQx0= =3KnK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1432516316_2099P--