Re: Building the kernel myself

2011-09-02 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > To each his own. If you're happy with "make deb-pkg", then use it. > I still prefer make-kpkg because of its greater flexibility. (I only > get a headers package if I ask for one, for example. Most of the > time I don't need one.) I also like the ease with which one can > change the kern

Re: Building the kernel myself

2011-09-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:04:00 -0400 (EDT), Ralf Jung wrote: > On Saturday 27 August 2011 17:57:00 Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> I am in a hurry to get to a wedding; so I don't have time for a more >> thorough reply right now; but you might want to take a look at >> >>http://users.wowway.com/~zli

Re: Building the kernel myself

2011-08-31 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, thanks for that very informative link. I can confirm however that with current Debian testing, "make deb-pkg" works like a charm. It is a good idea to disable debug symbols though (CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO) to keep the size of the modules reasonably. Kind regards, Ralf On Saturday 27 August 2011

Re: Building the kernel myself

2011-08-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Ralf Jung wrote: > 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. at the risk of a bit

Re: Building the kernel myself

2011-08-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:18:10 -0400 (EDT), Ralf Jung wrote: > > 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 am in a hu

Re: Building the kernel myself

2011-08-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
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Re: Building the kernel myself

2011-08-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2011-08-27 at 00:19 +0200, Ralf Jung wrote: > Well, as far as I can tell it runs "make oldconfig" each time. No, since I compile by self written scripts and I have to run make oldconfig by the scripts, because I wish to do this, it isn't done automagically. It's essential to do this or som

Re: Building the kernel myself

2011-08-26 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > No, since I compile by self written scripts and I have to run make > oldconfig by the scripts, because I wish to do this, it isn't done > automagically. It's essential to do this or something similar, when > switching to another kernel version. If you stay at the same version > nothing will

Re: Building the kernel myself

2011-08-26 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > You need to run > > make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot --initrd kernel-image kernel-headers I put the fakeroot into the kernel-pkg.conf file, should have mentioned that, sorry. > It's not doing any black magic and it never touches the configuration. > Perhaps there's an issue with preparing De

Re: Building the kernel myself

2011-08-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> > > Forwarded Message > > From: Ralf Jung > > To: debian-user > > Subject: Building the kernel myself > > Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:18:10 +0200 > > [snip] > > I found tons of documentation on the net, but most of it is horribly

Re: Building the kernel myself

2011-08-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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/int

Re: Building the kernel myself

2011-08-26 Thread Ralf Jung
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

Building the kernel myself

2011-08-26 Thread Ralf Jung
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 o