Re: building 2.6.35
On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:01:50 -0400 (EDT), Alexander Samad wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 03:10:10 -0400 (EDT), Angus Hedger wrote:
>>>
>>> I have been fumbling my way though building custom kernels on debian
>>> using this guide http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm.
>>>
>>> Though, I have been using the .config from the stock 2.6.32 kernel and
>>> customising it to fit, as when I tried to make my own from scratch it
>>> didn’t boot.
>>
>> That is not recommended unless you are building a custom version of
>> a 2.6.32 kernel. There are 2.6.35 stock kernel images available
>> in experimental. For example: linux-image-2.6.35-rc6-686 or
>> linux-image-2.6.35-rc6-amd64. If one of them will not do, you should
>> at least use the config file from one of those as your starting
>> point for configuration of your 2.6.35 source rather than using a
>> 2.6.32 config file.
>
> I did trying using the packages for 2.6.35, but you can't install the
> headers because the linux-kbuild-2.6.35 is there
Why do you want to install the headers if you already have the whole
kernel source code? What are you trying to accomplish besides
building a custom kernel?
>>
>> A Debian source package for 2.6.35 is also
>> available in experimental: linux-source-2.6.35.
>
> can I use make-kpkg against this ?
I haven't tried that specific source package, but I don't know of
any reason why it wouldn't work.
>
> my reason for doing this is I have a problem with my screen - there is
> a bug open at freedesktop.org. and I need to get the lastest git from
> drm-intel....
So does this video driver use an out-of-kernel-source-tree kernel
module, like the proprietary nvidia driver does? Are you trying to
use module-assistant? Is that why you need the headers (or why you
think you need the headers)?
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