Re: how to building a custom kernel in Debian sid

[Jeroen Diederen <jjhdiederen@zonnet.nl>]

Hi,

I did some extensive hardware testing and I found out that my DIMM RAM 
module is not ok. You were right Adrian, thanks!

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz schreef op 2020-06-17 08:59:
> Hello!
>
> On 6/17/20 8:15 AM, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
> > I tried several times to build a custom kernel in Debian sid. Each 
> > time I get segmentation
> > faults or other errors and automatic building in pbuilder also does 
> > not work.
>
> If you are seeing segmentation faults during a normal kernel compile,
> you most likely
> have bad memory or other hardware problems. Segmentation faults should
> never happen
> during a normal kernel build, even if you mess up the documentation.
>
> > Can someone please give me a link to documentation that will lead to 
> > success?
>
> > https://wiki.debian.org/BuildADebianKernelPackage
>
> > All I want is a ppc64 kernel with 4K PAGES to test nouveau on my iMac 
> > G5 with nVidia card.
>
> I haven't had the time to work on the PowerPC stuff lately and since
> there is no one willing
> to help with the port at the moment, things are taking longer.
>
> Adrian