Janis Hamme wrote: > I'd like to build the vanilla 5.4.69 LTS Kernel for one of my Debian > machines (Buster). > > The easiest way seems to build the Kernel with the built in "make > deb-pkg" target. Since I do not really want to go through all the config > changes, > my plan was to get a 5.4 config for amd64 from > https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux > > I cloned the git repository and checked out the 5.4.19-1_bpo10+1 tag. > But the config seems do be manged somehow by the Debian build system and > is split across multiple files for different architectures and feature > sets etc. Does someone know how I can generate the final amd64 config to > use it for my custom kernel? >
cp /boot/config-xxxx.xxxx.xxx .config make .oldconfig make -j`nproc` bindeb-pkg as mentioned in https://wiki.debian.org/BuildADebianKernelPackage After make .oldconfig you will be asked questions about new stuff. > Updating the Debian package sources for 5.4.69 would also work. It > probably easy, but I didn't find any documentation or tutorials on it (I > also don't really want to deal with the Debian custom patches that > probably won't apply properly to Vanilla 5.4.69) Actually it is not a bad idea to use the debian kernel with the patches, especially if you are on public network.
