Re: Correct way to (re)compile a kernel on Debian Sid
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 09:55:46 -0400 (EDT), Ivan Marin wrote:
>
> I've seen a lot of traffic lately about how to compile a fresh kernel, from
> debian ou vanilla, in this list. After the changes in make-kpkg and
> kernel-package, I'm now completely lost. Before the changes, I just had to
> issue make-kpkg with --initrd (and others) flags, and 1) the kernel was
> compiled, 2) a initrd was created, 3) a debian package was created, both for
> image and headers, and after installation, 4) grub (1 or 2!) was updated
> with the proper lines for the kernel and the initrd. But no more. Either the
> initrd is not created, or when it's created it is not included on grub, or
> the kernel dies with the VFS error.
>
This is all explained in http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm
In particular, review Step 10.
>
> I also noted that the README, man pages and Changelog of the kernel-package
> are not synchronized,
>
The author is aware of this problem and has it on his "to do" list.
> and I've could't find on google a good howto or at
> least a man page that describes a way to reproduce the easy 1-2-3-4 from
> above
I don't know which search keywords you used, but I tried
Debian "GNU/Linux" custom kernel "kernel-package" "make-kpkg" compile
as my search keywords on Yahoo advanced search and the above web page
showed up on the first page. It doesn't do well at all on Google web
searches though. Perhaps someone with web page experience can provide
me with some pointers as to how I can make the page more visible to
Google searches.
The document is rather long, but thorough in its treatment of the subject.
At least that was my goal.
> (I don't need to mess with package creation or portability - I just
> want to compile a plain kernel on my laptop to try to get rid of the
> firmware-iwlwifi bug that plagues the Intel 5300AGN). Could a good soul
> point to me a howto or the steps necessary to redo the old make-kpkg way, at
> least for a kernel.org kernel?
It sounds to me like you want to get pristine kernel sources directly
from kernel.org and compile them and run them on a Debian system.
I've never done that, but others tell me that they do it. Of course,
this is not supported by Debian. But why don't you just install the
appropriate firmware package on Debian? Are you saying that the bug is
fixed in newer kernel images from kernel.org that Debian has not
packaged yet?
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