[OT?] is there no package containing the raw "vmlinux" kernel image?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Brad Figg wrote:

> On 07/01/2010 12:04 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Stefan Bader wrote:
> >
> > > The finally used config you would find in
> > > debian/build/build-genric/.config (for the generic build). Basically
> > > its a hierarchical approach
> > >
> > > For a generic kernel build
> > > ./debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu
> > > is used and then things in
> > >
> > > ./debian.master/config/amd64/config.common.amd64
> > > override options that are different in all amd64 (64bit) build and finally
> > >
> > > ./debian.master/config/amd64/config.flavour.generic
> > > replaces options which are specific to the generic flavour.
> >
> >    ah, super, i missed that first top-level one -- i'll add that info
> > to the tutorial.  the current version of the tutorial is here:
> >
> > http://crashcourse.ca/introduction-linux-kernel-programming/intermission-building-vmlinux-file-under-ubuntu-free-lesson
> >
> >    in fact, i did a quick test and diff'ed the .config that was used
> > for the build against the one for the current kernel under /boot and
> > the only diff was the one line of date/time stamp.  so i'm confident
> > it's going to match.  thanks muchly, i think i finally have this under
> > control.
> >
> > rday
> >
> > p.s.  i will point my students at the tutorial and let *them* sanity
> > check it as well.  i'm sure they'll find any mistakes in short order.
> >
>
> Robert,
>
> Before you "fakeroot debian/rules binary-generic" you will want to
> "fakeroot debian/rules clean".

  yup, learned that the hard way already, just fixed the tutorial,
thanks.

rday

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