Re: Building a Custom Kernel

[Ben Hill <ben@serosoft.com>]

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 22:30 +0000, Ben Hill wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 22:21 +0000, Lee Braiden wrote:
> > On Tuesday 01 March 2005 22:16, Ben Hill wrote:
> > > Could anyone give me a quick bullet-point list of the stages of building
> > > a 2.6.8 powerpc kernel?
> > >
> > > I'm used to the traditional method, but I'd like to do it the Debian
> > > way.
> > 
> > apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.8
> > cd /usr/src
> > tar xvjf kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2
> > cd kernel-source-2.6.8
> > make-kpkg --config=menuconfig configure
> > make-kpkg binary
> > cd ..
> > dpkg -i kernel*2.6.8*.deb
> 
> I'm on the right track then. I've got to well through the build until:
> 
> *** No rule to make target `drivers/net/tg3.c', needed by
> `drivers/net/tg3.o'.  Stop.
> 
> stops the build. :-(
> 
> Thought I'd missed something..

I've disabled the Broadcom tigon driver in config which fixed this...

It's late again - doh... ;-)