Once again you have been very helpful, thanks Alan !
-Randy
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Alan Ott <a...@signal11.us> wrote:
> On 10/30/2013 11:01 PM, Randy Graham wrote:
>
>> Is there a preferred desktop linux distro for testing net-next kernels on
>> a amd64 desktop machine ?
>>
>>
> Most can build and run mainline kernels fine.
>
>
> Ideally, I would like to run the latest net-next kernel on my Ubuntu
>> 13.10 amd64 dev box.
>>
>>
> Should be no problem.
>
>
> Are there any docs that show how to build a net-next kernel for use with
>> Ubuntu or other preferred distro ?
>>
>>
> Linux Kernel in a nutshell:
> http://www.kroah.com/lkn/
>
>
> I tried the steps here, http://blog.avirtualhome.com/**
>> compile-mainline-kernel-**ubuntu/<http://blog.avirtualhome.com/compile-mainline-kernel-ubuntu/>,
>> with net-next but compilation failed when building independent packages
>> (fakeroot debian/rules binary-indep).
>>
>>
> That's a lot of extra work and makes a deb package of a kernel. You don't
> need to do that.
>
> Basically:
> copy a config from /boot to .config
> cp /boot/config-$VERSION .config
> make oldconfig (optional)
> make menuconfig (optional)
> make
> make modules
> make modules_install
> make install
> update-grub
>
> Someone may say some of that is unnecessary or redundant. Whatever.
>
> Basically make install calls a distro hook which puts the kernel in the
> right place.
>
> Alan.
>
>
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