On 30 Jun 2003, Mike Chambers wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 11:42, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > just for anyone who needs all the details (step by step), here's > > what it takes to play with the latest 2.5 kernels (at least on > > red hat 9). > > > > 1) upgrade to the latest red hat rawhide versions of both the > > modutils and mkinitrd RPMs. you *need* the latest modutils RPM > > to understand the 2.5 kernel, but that RPM is backward-compatible > > if you want to reboot back to 2.4. (when, oh when, is red hat > > finally going to get a grip and have the URL rawhide.redhat.com > > take one *directly* to the rawhide repository? sigh.) > > > > 2) get latest kernel tarball (2.5.73 at last glance) from www.kernel.org > > or ftp.kernel.org, and unload it under /usr/src. there is no need to > > mess with symlinks, as the tarballs from kernel.org automatically > > unload into the appropriate directory name (linux-2.5.73). > > > > 3) in order to be *really* up to date, grab the latest BK patch from > > kernel.org, and patch. > > In other words.. > > make mrproper > copy over config or use new one > make oldconfig/menuconfig/xconfig > make bzImage install modules modules_install > mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.5.73.img 2.5.73 yup, except that i don't "make install", i just do the copy myself. so, in a nutshell, except for the need to upgrade modutils and mkinitrd, no big surprises. > You left out make dep, is that not required now? not any more. > Note: unless it changed in 2.5/2.6, make install does the copying for > you AND edits grub.conf as well. it's certainly possible to automate parts of what i wrote, i thought it would be more helpful to show the underlying steps so that, if something goes wrong, people will have a better idea of what to look for. rday p.s. the new makefile also supports some interesting testing targets, such as: # make allyesconfig # make allnoconfig # make allmodconfig # make randconfig (WTF ???) on top of that, you can see the latest stability results of each release of the 2.5 kernel at www.osdl.org/archive/cherry/stability i took a chance and moved up to 2.5 a couple months ago. never had any need to back off since.
