Re: building 2.6.35
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:27:50 -0400 (EDT), Arthur Machlas wrote:
> Stephen Powell wrote:
>> The latest version of my kernel building web page, revised yesterday
>> (http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm), recommends unpacking,
>> configuring, and compiling the kernel from its default location
>> as a non-root user which is a member of group src. It can be the
>> system administrator's non-superuser self or an id created
>> specifically for kernel building that is enrolled in group src,
>> at the administrator's discretion. I have tested the procedure,
>> and it works. That's my current recommendation. Obviously, you
>> are entitled to disagree if you like.
>
> It's a pretty great document Stephen, and I don't think I mentioned
> earlier that it was my first and authoritative reference when first
> starting to build kernels, for exactly the reason you noted, much
> documentation is out-of-date or not debian specific. So thanks for
> that, belatedly.
>
> One thing I think is missing, that I had to discover myself, and
> perhaps is related to the OPs question, is that sometimes you need the
> headers and even the source for the custom kernels, e.g., Virtualbox
> from upstream. In which case, adding kernel_headers and/or
> kernel_source to the make-kpkg build line is a noteworthy item, since
> it will build debs' and take care of installing them correctly without
> linking back to the build directory when searching for source.
That is valuable real-world feedback from a real-world user, Arthur.
I will see what I can do to improve the document in this respect.
I haven't done anything like that myself; so if you have some suggested
wording that you would like to see added, tell me what and where, and
we'll go from there.
I would also like to add an out-of-kernel-source-tree modules example.
It has been a long time since I did anything with
out-of-kernel-source-tree stuff. The last time I did something like
that was back in the days when the pcmcia drivers and the alsa drivers
were not yet integrated into the main kernel source tree. And that
was about ten years ago, I think. Much has changed in the world of
kernel building since then. But we now have things like the proprietary
nvidia kernel module and proprietary kernel modules for win-modems
that can be used as examples. I have occasion to use both of those
examples with my current hardware.
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