Build a Linux kernel for Raspberry Pi 3 in 64bit

This repo just builds a Linux kernel for Raspberry Pi 3 in 64bit. It uses the linux kernel provided by the upstream repo at https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux.

Latest LTS Linux Kernel now is 4.9.80.

Prerequisites

In order to build the latest Linux kernel 4.9.x for the Raspberry Pi 3 board you only need a few tools on your Mac:

1. git
2. Docker for Mac

Step 1: Clone the repo

$ git clone https://github.com/DieterReuter/rpi64-kernel/
$ cd rpi64-kernel

Step 2: Build the kernel

To build the Linux kernel you only have to invoke a single command. All the required building steps will be run automatically by the Docker tools inside of an isolated environment.

$ docker-compose build
$ docker-compose run builder

That's all !!!

Build results

The build artifacts can be found on a local directory ./builds.

$ tree builds
builds
└── 20170303-152804
    ├── 4.9.13-bee42-v8.config
    ├── 4.9.13-bee42-v8.tar.gz
    ├── 4.9.13-bee42-v8.tar.gz.sha256
    ├── bootfiles.tar.gz
    └── bootfiles.tar.gz.sha256

1 directory, 5 files

$ ls -al ./builds/20170303-152804/
-rw-r--r--  1 dieter  staff    140641 Mar  3 16:28 4.9.13-bee42-v8.config
-rw-r--r--  1 dieter  staff  21863866 Mar  3 16:40 4.9.13-bee42-v8.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 dieter  staff        89 Mar  3 16:40 4.9.13-bee42-v8.tar.gz.sha256
-rw-r--r--  1 dieter  staff   5092332 Mar  3 16:40 bootfiles.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 dieter  staff        83 Mar  3 16:40 bootfiles.tar.gz.sha256

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The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2017 Dieter Reuter