On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Ralf Jung wrote: > Hi, > > > at the risk of a bit of self-promotion, i wrote an online course for > > beginners to kernel programming, the first part of which is free and > > walks you through how to configure, build and reboot a new kernel: > > > > http://crashcourse.ca/introduction-linux-kernel-programming/introduction-li > > nux-kernel-programming > > > > i avoid all the nonsense involving packages and packaging, and just go > > with cloning the git tree and manually installing the end result. > > this works for me just fine on ubuntu, so i assume it should be just > > as easy under debian.
> Thanks for the link. I am using a git clone, too (want to get the > actual "vanilla" kernel), however I'd prefer the end-result to be in > package form for easier uninstallation. And, most importantly, I > rely on dkms for two kernel modules (namely the VirtualBox and fglrx > modules), so this has to be triggered somewhere. with respect to DKMS, i run a manually hand-rolled kernel all the time and i am constantly updating virtualbox, and the rebuild is done automatically since i have the "dkms" package installed. so that by itself shouldn't be an issue, but i appreciate that some folks prefer to work with packages. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- 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/alpine.DEB.2.02.1108261147370.29307@localhost6.localdomain6