Am Samstag, 10. November 2012 schrieb Lisi Reisz: > Thanks, Martin. Yes, I have looked at the website you refer to, and > tried to use it. And I have the book to which you refer. The > trouble is, that for the basic stuff they are simply above my > head. Stephen gives more explanation and more and clearer > instructions. > > I shall certainly avail myself of what the book and > http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ say - but shall also use > Stephen's site, which I find very useful. So much of the > documentation from which one has to work is old - but that doesn't > make it useless. And anyway, I think that Stephen updates his site, > so it is not outdated.
Well, if you apply common sense to what you read, old instructions can still be quite usable. The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) is a good example for that. And if Stephen updates his site, even better. I still suggest using a directory in your home directory and having a look at make-kpkg if you just want to compile a quick kernel now and then. I did so today 14 times in order to find a bug. Last call to it was: make-kpkg -j4 --rootcmd fakeroot --initrd --append-to-version -f2fs-tp520 --revision 1 linux_image (I build a kernel with the new flash filesystem from Samsung for this ThinkPad T520:) So you make old/menuconfig your kernel and then issue a command like above. Only thing you do as root is sudo dpkg -i the build package then. You can also build source and doc packages and so on. I know there is the approach to build the official kernel packages, but one has to remove targets one does not want to build for. make-kpkg just gives me a nice kernel package for my system by default. If anyone knows something like make-kpkg that produces packages in the official scheme including kbuild packages, speak up. Well, maybe you can enlighten me, cause you learnt about building kernels, Lisi? Thanks, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- 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/201211102110.01317.mar...@lichtvoll.de
