I have been building kernels for different architectures ect for quite a while, but what I haven't been doing is changing the source so that bugs and drivers that don�t work are fixed.
Alpha is a bit left these days and it can be a bit of a challenge to find a kernel that is stable on it. > From: Roger Salisbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 17:45:19 +1100 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re_ [SLUG] Help with some kernel hacking.eml > > > > I was a newbie doning this a few years ago. > I was building kernels for MIPS(SGI) and SPARC (SUN) proccessors. > First I built kernels for X86 machines on a X86 machine. > Then I built kernels for sparc / mips machines on a X86 machine. > IE "crosscompiled" on a X86 host for different target platforms. > > Its a long winding road perhaps but you will learn alot. > First learn how to build kernels for X86. > crosscompiling is a little more difficult. > > Cheers Roger > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "DE LUCA Ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Rob B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 8:55 AM > Subject: Re: [SLUG] Help with some kernel hacking > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
