Messages in this thread | | | From | "Manuel McLure" <> | Subject | Re: Aunt Tillie builds a kernel (was Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution) | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:30:57 -0800 |
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> To: "Marco Colombo" <marco@esi.it> Cc: "Linux Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 12:13 PM Subject: Re: Aunt Tillie builds a kernel (was Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution)
[SNIP] > The usr/src/linux/.config was the .config obtained off from Linus` > tree, not something provided by RedHat so `make oldconfig` would have > made a "standard kernel" like you download from ftp.kernel.org. > > Now, looking in /usr/src/redhat/../.., I find some patches that are > impossible to use to patch the kernel to bring it up (or down) to > the configuration used to build the distribution. The default > configuration, before I "installed" the kernel sources was some > empty directories of /usr/src/redhat/BUILD, /usr/src/redhat/RPMS, > /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES, /usr/src/redhat/SPECS, and /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS. > Now there were some patches and other files with no scripts and no > way to actually use them to modify the kernel. I spent hours, putting > them in order, based upon the time/date stamp within the files, not > the file time which was something more or less random. I made a script > and tried, over a period of weeks, to patch the supplied kernel with > the supplied patches. Forget it. If anything in this universe is truly > impossible, then making a Red Hat distribution kernel from the provided > tools, patches, and sources is a definitive example. > > Then, to add insult to injury, the 'C' compiler provided would > not create a bootable kernel. It was egcs-2.91.66. To make > a bootable kernel, I had to install gcc-2.96. The list goes on.
Use the RPM - all of the instructions on what patches go in what order are in the spec file. Or, you can simply copy the appropriate configuration file from /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES to /usr/src/linux/.config, and do a "make oldconfig; make dep; make clean; make install; make modules; make modules_install". Voila, new kernel. Don't tell me this doesn't work because I've done it myself.
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