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Re: Building a Custom Kernel



Ben Hill wrote:
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... ;-)



That driver was pulled from Debian kernel sources due to binary blobs in the source. You can
patch it back in but I doubt you need to for PPC.

Isn't there a package for this though? I thought that code was simply moved to non-free.

Ben, was this configed in the kernel sources or did you just enable it by accident? Debian
kernel sources right?

A lot of the new Dell 1u PE servers are using this Broadcom chipset these days.

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