Paul Cartwright put forth on 12/24/2009 12:04 PM: > On Tue December 22 2009, Celejar wrote: >> Exactly. And you can turn off all the sound card and video drivers >> except the one(s) you actually need, and the same for networking hw, >> etc. > > so I was reading this: > http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm > > which is about the same.. > I ran these commands: > > # make menuconfig > # make-kpkg clean > # make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image > > (snipping all the long lines...) > and ended up with this: > > /usr/bin/make ARCH=i386 \ > -C Documentation/lguest > make[1]: Entering directory > `/home/pbc/Documents/software/linux-2.6.31.9/linux-2.6.31.9/Documentation/lguest' > cc -m32 -Wall -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -O3 -I../../include > -I../../arch/x86/include -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE > lguest.c -o lguest > lguest.c:21:25: error: sys/eventfd.h: No such file or directory > lguest.c: In function ‘create_thread’: > lguest.c:1021: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘eventfd’ > make[1]: *** [lguest] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/home/pbc/Documents/software/linux-2.6.31.9/linux-2.6.31.9/Documentation/lguest' > make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2
http://cakebox.homeunix.net/wordpress/?p=100 http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_thread/thread/110a993ec9f4da01 If you don't actually plan on running this kernel/machine as a hypervisor/host for guest operating systems, then in make menuconfig unselect any kernel options relating to doing so. When compiling one's first custom kernel one should start with _ONLY_ the functionality one needs. Then build things up from there as you need more abilities from you kernel. ;) -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
