On 5/5/06, Mukund JB. <mukundjb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [please don't top-post]
I just download a MIPS kernel I tried to start of with taking a backup of existing kernel config file and issued # make oldconfig. It asked me lot of details, so I skipped it.
If you copy in an old config as ".config" in the new kernel source dir and run "make oldconfig" you should only be asked about options that have changed or been added since your old kernel version. You need to either run "make oldconfig" and answer all the questions, or run "make menuconfig" (or "make config", "make xconfig" etc) and configure the kernel from scratch. Once configured, one way or another, just run "make" to build it.
And, when I issues # make dep, it failed saying Its not the time to make dep.
Just run "make" to build the kernel. make takes care of the dependencies. running "make dep" explicitly is a 2.4.x kernel thing, not what you should do for a 2.6.x kernel.
Is there a separate way to compile the MIPS kernel.
It's been a long time since I've build a kernel for MIPS, but I remember it as being pretty standard. -- Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
