Debian Kernel setup

How to build the Kernel from Debian repositories

In order to accomplish this you might need to get the sources and setup the environment

• Install the proper packages to build the kernel

apt-get install ncurses-dev fakeroot kernel-package build-essential devscripts

• Build kernel dependencies

apt-get build-dep linux-2.6

• Get Debian kernel sources

apt-get source linux-2.6

Note: deb-src must be present on /etc/apt/sources.list file

How to build Debian Kernel

• If kernel is patched, check it twice as follows

make -f debian/rules source-all

• First time must fail

• If you are building all the kernel related packages, then do as follows. It should take about 40GB of disk space.

~/src/linux-2.6-2.6.24~rc6$ debuild -e DEBIAN_KERNEL_JOBS=${NR_CPUS}

• If you are building an specific architecture, then

fakeroot make -f debian/rules.gen setup_i386_none_k7

• This will build the packages for AMD K7
• If there is any change to apply, then go the the k7 folder and config the kernel

debian/build/build_i386_none_k7
make menuconfig

• Build the kernel

fakeroot make -f debian/rules.gen binary-arch_i386_none_k7 binary-indep DEBIAN_KERNEL_JOBS=${NR_CPUS}