On 7/14/18, ozgur@xxxxxxxxxx <ozgur@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 14.07.2018, 20:07, "Athul Joy" <aathuljjoy333@xxxxxxxxx>: >> >> Dear friends, I am new to the Linux kernel development. >> Can anyone help me how to start my journey in order to build my own >> kernel? > > > Hello, > > if you want to build a your own kernel then the best way is to be use > Google. Perhaps you can find thousands of kernel build documents and you can > ask here if you have an build errors. > > So, it's very simple and I share for short information, the kernel is > written in C code and all code is open source and all C based code can be > compiled using the appropriated compiler. GCC is good compilers. > > Which distro you use? > > Downloaded to latest stable kernel to /usr/src directory. > Un-compressed the linux kernel. > Copy default .config file to directory. > > cp /boot/config-`uname -r`* .config > > Note: You may need to ncurses library. > > Run make menuconfig and check kernel parameters. > > Run make -j 4 and make modules and make modules_install and make install > command. > > Please check to /boot directory: > > vmlinuz - this is a kernel > System.map - this is a kernel symbols file > initramfs - initrd image > Config - Kernel config file > > Please read: https://kernelnewbies.org/KernelBuild I (also) learned about "Linux From Scratch" (LFS) from KernelNewbies: https://kernelnewbies.org/RelatedSites I've been playing with computers since ~1994, but I have degenerating cognitive issues that keep me functioning as a perpetual, capable newbie. Linux From Scratch is written in such a way that I've been able to follow along those times I've... remembered to stop and play with it. I thank its author(s) for that! :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape * _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
