Firmware Build Process In Detail

Just like when building the ADK's toolchain, the sources for the selected packages are downloaded from the internet first, then built using the cross-compiler and libraries of the ADK.

The detailed order of firmware image building is:

• compile the Linux kernel and all supported kernel modules
• compile all selected packages
• clean the target root directory
• install all packages to the target root directory
• create the root filesystem image
• create the firmware image (bootloader, kernel and root filesystem)

The result of the build process is created in the directory bin/. You will find a firmware image in the top level directory. Check the size of the binary image file to see if it is small enough to fit into flash memory of your WLAN router. Furthermore there is a directory package/, which contains all base and add–on packages.