Hi list, I am trying to build the linux kernel myself... it's one of the things I always wanted to do ;-) plus I submitted some bugerports against the kernel and would like to test the patches there were written to fix them.
I found tons of documentation on the net, but most of it is horribly outdated. Essentially there seem to be two methods: a) installing kernel-package and then calling make-kpkg --initrd kernel-image kernel-headers in the source directory (I first forgot the --initrd, gave me quite a headache^^). That seems to work fine, however it's doing a lot of black magic. Also, each time I do this, it's touching the .config file resulting in a complete re-build even if just some files changed. b) Using "make deb-pkg". This gives me two more debian packages than make-kpkg (with firmware and libc stuf), however both conflict or even replace existing packages so I just ignore them. I also used to get dkms errors here, for some reason these are gone now... whatever. However, one problem remains: The linux-image package is *HUGE* (250MiB compared to 20MiB when I use make-kpkg) and takes a considerable amount of time to be created. The header-package is just 1MiB larger, I hardly care. The initrd in /boot however is also five times the size (almost 60 MiB), slowing down the boot quite noticeably. I'd prefer to directly use "make deb-pkg" to have less black magic between me and what's actually happening (and to be able to apply small patches without a re-build). Is there anything I can do to make those files smaller? Obviously, make-kpgk does something different than I do. Kind regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201108261718.10833.ralfjun...@gmx.de
