recipe for building my own kernel for 10.04?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 11 May 2010, Tom H wrote:

> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> > On Mon, 10 May 2010, Tom H wrote:
> >
> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/GitKernelBuild
> >
> > huh, that looks fairly straightforward. except for the occasional
> > typo -- there is no ncurses-dev package as suggested on that page,
> > it's actually libncurses5-dev, but i can get a launchpad account and
> > fix that.
>
> The wiki.ubuntu.com pages tend to be "funky".
>
> It is definitely libncurses5-dev...

  i've already fixed that on that page.

> I looked at your kernel newbie pages and have one question: you
> refer on "Building and running a new kernel" (I think) to pulling a
> git tree and point the reader to an earlier unnamed column but I was
> unable to find the latter.

  hmmm ... all the links should be there, i'll check that page later
today for completeness.  in any event, it's the same git tree
mentioned at the ubuntu page -- the main linus repo at git.kernel.org,
so it's the same "git clone" command.

  i'll probably also touch up the ubuntu wiki page to suggest:

  $ yes '' | make oldconfig

since, if you don't, you're going to have to sit there and keep
accepting the defaults for a lot of configuration that's not mentioned
in the current .config file.  just a timesaver, unless you
specifically *want* to see and decide on the new options.  as i
mentioned, all i want to do is get something bootable and, if there's
breakage, i'll deal with that accordingly.

rday
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