recipe for building my own kernel for 10.04?

[Karl F. Larsen]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   since i prefer to build and run my own kernels (and i want to test a
> few things like ftrace), is there a recipe for doing the kernel thing
> for 10.04?
> 
>   i found something that looks good for a starting point here (ignore
> the PPC component):
> 
> http://www.ppcnux.com/?q=node/7599
> 
> but i want to do things slightly differently.
> 
>   first, i suspect i'm good to use as a config file what's currently
> in /boot/config-2.6.32-21-generic.  at the very least, that will
> represent a fairly good starting point.
> 
>   next, i don't want to pull down the kernel source as a package, i
> want to clone a git repo so i can keep up with current developments.
> ideally, i'd like to use the main git repo at kernel.org, unless
> ubuntu makes considerable changes to the stock kernel source.
> 
>   as an alternative, i found this:
> 
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git
> 
> where, if i had to guess, i'd guess i'd want to clone this:
> 
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-lucid.git;a=summary
> 
> making sense so far?  beyond that, i suspect just following the recipe
> at that first link above should give me something that's minimally
> bootable and i can take it from there.
> 
>   thoughts?
> 
> rday
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> 
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> Robert P. J. Day                               Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
> 
>             Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry.
> 
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	Building a whole new kernel is not for the faint at heart. 
It's a whole lot of work that has to be precise.

73 Karl


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