Re: Custom Kernel Building in Debian

2009-11-19 Thread Stephen Powell
>> >> I'm afraid that's beyond my area of recent experience. The last time I built >> an out-of-tree module was back in the days when the ALSA drivers were >> not part of the kernel source tree, and I was using Woody, I think, >> with a 2.4 kernel. But make-pkpg could do that back then, and I wou

Re: Custom Kernel Building in Debian

2009-11-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Stephen Powell writes: >> I would like to suggest addressing the building of out-of-tree modules >> as well. This is kind of a moving target, as Debian does not currently >> offer a way to build deb packages from out-of-tree modules which have >> been (prematurely, IMO) converted to DKMS. > > I'm

Re: Custom Kernel Building in Debian

2009-11-18 Thread Stephen Powell
> I would like to suggest addressing the building of out-of-tree modules > as well. This is kind of a moving target, as Debian does not currently > offer a way to build deb packages from out-of-tree modules which have > been (prematurely, IMO) converted to DKMS. I'm afraid that's beyond my area o

Re: Custom Kernel Building in Debian

2009-11-17 Thread Stephen Powell
> here the pointer to the historic mail from linus, quite dated already > http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0007.3/0587.html Thanks. I have read the e-mail. I am not a C programmer, despite managing to hack out a kernel patch for dasd_diag.c. But I do know other programming langu

Re: Custom Kernel Building in Debian

2009-11-17 Thread maximilian attems
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, maximilian attems wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 02:24:52PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > > Maybe I'm re-inventing the wheel here, but I have recently collected and > > organized > > my notes on custom kernel building in Debian and have put t

Re: Custom Kernel Building in Debian

2009-11-17 Thread Stephen Powell
> first of all you shall build your linux-2.6 in ~/src/ > no compellent reason to do it in /usr/src > second you shall use make deb-pkg no need to use kernel-package > on a recent linux-2.6 tarball (>= 2.6.31). it will just produce > the linux-image. Thank you for your feedback. In response to

Re: Custom Kernel Building in Debian

2009-11-17 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 02:24:52PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > Maybe I'm re-inventing the wheel here, but I have recently collected and > organized > my notes on custom kernel building in Debian and have put them on the web at > the > following URL: http://www.wowway.com/~

Re: Custom Kernel Building in Debian

2009-11-17 Thread maximilian attems
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:14:09AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17 2009, maximilian attems wrote: > > > second you shall use make deb-pkg no need to use kernel-package > > on a recent linux-2.6 tarball (>= 2.6.31). it will just produce > > the linux-image. > > Not if you w

Re: Custom Kernel Building in Debian

2009-11-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Nov 17 2009, maximilian attems wrote: > second you shall use make deb-pkg no need to use kernel-package > on a recent linux-2.6 tarball (>= 2.6.31). it will just produce > the linux-image. Not if you want to produce headers, doc, or debug packages from your custom sources. The up

Re: Custom Kernel Building in Debian

2009-11-17 Thread maximilian attems
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 02:24:52PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > Maybe I'm re-inventing the wheel here, but I have recently collected and > organized > my notes on custom kernel building in Debian and have put them on the web at > the > following URL: http://www.wowway.com/~

Re: Custom Kernel Building in Debian

2009-11-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, Nov 16 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I like that, and would like to be able to incorporate this HOWTO > in the kernel-package package. What license are you distributing the > document under? If it is a free license, I would like it to be in the > kernel-package docs for Squeeze. I'm

Re: Custom Kernel Building in Debian

2009-11-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, On Mon, Nov 16 2009, Stephen Powell wrote: > Maybe I'm re-inventing the wheel here, but I have recently collected > and organized my notes on custom kernel building in Debian and have > put them on the web at the following URL: > http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm

Custom Kernel Building in Debian

2009-11-16 Thread Stephen Powell
Maybe I'm re-inventing the wheel here, but I have recently collected and organized my notes on custom kernel building in Debian and have put them on the web at the following URL: http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm Maybe it will be useful to somebody. If there is anything incorre