On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 14:50 +0530, devendra.aaru wrote:

On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Shraddha Kamat [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

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,

quoted

-- Shraddha


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