Make dep never works in kernel source

Neo_The_User · 2009-04-01 20:47:29

OK So.. i'm building the latest drm code from git to get Dave Airlie's source code for the R300 since he just dropped 5,000 line of source code out of the R300 tree using the Linus kernel git tree (i love unstable code) and in the DRI building guide, it says to run make dep against the kernel.

So I go into the root of the kernel source in /usr/src (i know you should build kernels in the home directory) and as root I type in make dep and it says its uncessary at this time. Well... when would be a good time to run make dep? (lol!!)

http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Buildin … 5ae2efe516

^ Unless make dep is actually unecessary. If it is uncessary, i'll contact TimoJyrinki and tell him about it.

Thank you for all your help.

P.S. Please don't drop i686 support for 2 or 3 months because I'm getting an AMD64 processor really soon! ahaha.

tomk · 2009-04-01 21:38:19

Did you get the source tarball from kernel.org? On a default Arch installation, /usr/src/linux-<kernel_version> contains headers only.

Neo_The_User · 2009-04-01 21:40:53

I said Linus kernel git tree.

http://git.kernel.org/ --> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/g … ;a=summary --> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

tomk · 2009-04-01 21:51:10

Apologies.. didn't read your post properly.

The message is "make dep is unnecessary now", meaning "make dep is no longer necessary" - it's deprecated.

broch · 2009-04-01 21:51:55

this is obsolete command for 2.6 kernels

just run (after configuring kernel) with root privileges
make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install

when done copy bzImage to /boot and configure GRUB/LILO

Neo_The_User · 2009-04-01 22:00:11

I run make && make modules_install (w/ clean when recompiling) as thats how I did it back when i used gentoo.

I have my kernel compiled and installed and everything. so thats not an issue at all. (And only 1.1 MB)

So if make dep is depreciated, whats the new command for make dep? I just want DRM working with airlied's new code for the r300 with the new kernel.

Here is where I am right now:

Mesa from git (r300) with heavy optimization flags (including -march=athlon=xp -fomit-frame-pointer- -s -O3)
Custom kernel with GZIP compression of 1.1 MB installed, up and running

To do:

DRM via git running on custom kernel

I recommend not testing what I am trying to do on a production environment.

Thanks.

P.S. I edited the CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS for the drm code as well and made it very optimized for my system.

Last edited by Neo_The_User (2009-04-01 22:01:44)

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#1 2009-04-01 20:47:29

Make dep never works in kernel source

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Re: Make dep never works in kernel source

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