Compile the kernel

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 2 Jun 2010, Tom H wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:01 AM, Amedee Van Gasse (ub)
> >
> > I'm sorry if I am spoiling all your fun, but there is *official* Ubuntu
> > documentation about building an upstream (plain vanilla) kernel:
> >
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/GitKernelBuild
> >
> > Please also read the documentation about building an Ubuntu kernel:
> >
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile
>
> The help.ubu.. link is for ubuntu kernel sources not clean, kernel.org ones.
>
> I would not call the wiki.ubuntu... link official. Anyone can edit
> them. IIRC, Robert added something about "make oldconfig" when he
> was looking at docs for writing his howto.

  if memory serves, all i added worth mentioning was the shortcut to
use

  $ yes '' | make oldconfig

so you didn't need to sit there, pressing ENTER.

rday

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