On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 14:50 +0530, devendra.aaru wrote: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Shraddha Kamat <sh2008ka@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > I do the following on Fedora kernel src rpm : > > (1) rpm -ivh kernel-xxx.rpm > > (2) Go to ~/rpmbuild/SPECS dir > > (2) rpmbuild -bp kernel.specs --nodeps > > > > then in the ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/ dir I get kernel-xxx dir > > where in there are two source dir - > > (1) linux-xxx <-------- A > > (2) vanilla-xxx <-------- B > > > > Why are these two dir created - How do I use the configuration file > > /boot/config-xxx to build vmlinuz and initrd image ? > > > > Which dir A or B sould I use for building ? > > > > > > i dunno why you are doing these things, all these look hard path. > > this is what i do: > > take new kernel from ftp.kernel.org or git.kernel.org. > make defconfig > make -j10 > make modules_install > make install I am not building upstream kernel - this is a kernel supplied by the distro with custom patches. > > there are some gliches to it, say > > you have to select the filesystems correctly like if you have ext2, in > .config enable CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y or what ever the filesystem currently > you have. > and your ethernet driver (as of now compile the ethernet drivers as > modules) (make menuconfig then networking then ethernet ) > same with the wireless drivers too, (make menuconfig then networking > then wireless ) > > the names i mentioned may change but please go through google once > posting here :) > Thank you very much for you reply. > thanks, > > -- Shraddha > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Kernelnewbies mailing list > > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
