creating a custom kernel using kernel26 as a starting point

signal11 · 2008-01-12 20:18:19

hi,

i want to create a custom kernel starting from official kernel26 sources. since i have just started using arch, i am a newbie wrt to the best way of doing this.

one possibility (that i can think of) is to use abs. the problem here is that makepkg (after downloading + patching the kernel sources) uses the default kernel-config.

is it possible to do the following (or its equivalent):

- download + patch the kernel26 code as usual.
- run make menuconfig and choose appropriate options
- continue with makepkg as usual with the new config ?

or if there is a better way to doing the same, can you please let me know ?

thanks
anupam

peart · 2008-01-12 20:35:08

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cus … n_with_ABS

signal11 · 2008-01-13 08:43:13

peart wrote:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cus … n_with_ABS

cool, thanks !

signal11 · 2008-01-14 18:00:10

signal11 wrote:

peart wrote:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cus … n_with_ABS
cool, thanks !

just wanted to update this with my experience: basically, i followed the instructions in the above url, and it all worked fine (almost).

the custom kernel-package is created fine and gets installed, as usual with a "pacman -U ...". this also creates appropriate hierarchy at "/usr/src/<kernel-package>" for building out-of-tree modules (i guess e.g. nvidia). in the end, i had to run "mkinitcpio" for creating the initrd image for the custom kernel.

the only issue i had was during compilation of nvidia-kernel module. apparently, "arch/i386/Makefile.cpu" was not copied over during the installation of the custom-kernel-package above. this had to be done by "hand", after which i had no issues creating the custom nvidia module which works fine.

peart · 2008-01-14 18:39:25

I'm glad things went well. I don't use the abs method for compiling my kernel, so I can't comment on te missing file problem. If you believe the missing file is a packaging problem, you might want to notify the devs using the bugtracker. However, since may people use "the abs way" to compile their kernels, I'm thinking it's not a bug, otherwise it would have been reported long ago.

Cheers,
peart

rson451 · 2008-01-14 21:45:32

i've had that problem too. copying by hand is the only way i've gotten nvidia to compile. getting nvidia to work is another story

signal11 · 2008-01-15 07:32:51

rson451 wrote:

i've had that problem too. copying by hand is the only way i've gotten nvidia to compile. getting nvidia to work is another story

hmm, i had no issues getting nvidia to work. i can post my xorg settings here if that might help you out (just let me know). another thing that you can try (if not done already) is to use "nvidia-xconfig" to generate an xorg.conf as a starting point. then you can tweak it as you see fit.

sm4tik · 2008-01-15 15:55:19

@signal11: Maybe this http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=34815 might help aswell.

rson451 · 2008-01-15 18:38:00

signal11 wrote:

hmm, i had no issues getting nvidia to work. i can post my xorg settings here if that might help you out (just let me know). another thing that you can try (if not done already) is to use "nvidia-xconfig" to generate an xorg.conf as a starting point. then you can tweak it as you see fit.

eh, i've tried just about everything i can think of. i know my xorg.conf works because it works on the default kernel with the default module. i'll figure it out soon i suppose. thanks for the offer though.

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creating a custom kernel using kernel26 as a starting point

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Re: creating a custom kernel using kernel26 as a starting point

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