Getting the source
Both of the targets used in this book, the BeagleBone Black and the ARM Versatile PB, are well supported by the mainline kernel. Therefore, it makes sense to use the latest long-term kernel available from https://www.kernel.org/, which at the time of writing was 4.9.13. When you come to do this for yourself, you should check to see if there is a later version of the 4.9 kernel and use that instead since it will have fixes for bugs found after 4.9.13 was released. If there is a later long-term release, you may want to consider using that one, but be aware that there may have been changes that mean that the following sequence of commands do not work exactly as given.
Use this command to clone the stable kernel and check out ...
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