Re: Building custom kernel based off stock debian kernel
Osamu Aoki wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 02:33:43PM +1030, Tom Cook wrote:
> > I think I see what Nick wants, because I kinda wanna do the same
> > thing. I have compiled any number of kernels before, and know what I
> > am doing. But I am quite happy with the kernel I have straight out of
> > the box except that I need to apply a patch to my network card driver.
> > So I have to completely reconfigure the kernel in all aspects to suit
> > my system, which seems stupid when someone else has done it for me.
> > All I want is the source tree that was used to compile the kernel that
> > comes with potato, so that I can change four lines and recompile one
> > module. Is this available?
> Folding at 72th char will be nice :)
>
> Of course the SOURCE is available. It's Debian, It's GNU!
>
> $ apt-get source kernel-image-2.4.17-686-smp
>
> should give you exact source. But this is very complicated (Not for me,
> leave this for Herbert Xu)
>
> But most likely, all you need to do is use "source package" and copy
> configuration off your current one as:
>
> # cp /boot/config-2.4.17-686-smp /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.17/.config
> # make menuconfig
<wisely> aaaaahhhh that is what I have been looking for. ;-)
Tom
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