custom kernel

[Daniel Moyne]

Le Samedi 5 Février 2005 05:46, S B a écrit :
> Hi all,
>   I made an attempt to custom build a kernel from the src.rpm. I
> followed the tutorial by Kevin Hobbs to complete the task.
>   I have several questions with the build process. I did read a couple
> of tutorials before I actually build the kernel.
>
>
> 1. The build process failed at prep when I tried to build the binaries.
>       rpmbuild -bb --target=i686 ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/kernel-2.*.spec .
>     I followed the tutorial (Kernel Compilation Tutorial-Kevin Hobbs)
> step by step but could not build the kernerl.
>
> 2. So, I decided to build the binaries directly without rpmbuild -bp step.
>     So i installed the src.rpm,
>     then rpmbuild -bb ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/kernel-2.*.spec. This went
> smooth, except it took more
>     than a couple of hours to build the rpms.
>
> So, is it normal for the build process to take this long?
> Why did the build process fail via the first method? (I should be able
> to provide more information on this, I do not have the tmp files right
> now)
>
> During  the "make xconfig" I added ACPI /APM/ frequency scaling etc,
> and then built the rpms.  However, after installing the newly build
> kernel and rebooting into this new kernel, I dont know if all of the
> above features were added or not. I could not find /proc/cpufreq, so I
> dont think I will be able to scale the cpu frequency?
>
> Thanks,
> shashank
What you do is of interest to me because my present kernels do not include a 
scsi driver for my Tekram SCSI PCI card ; which kernel di you start from and 
does it include a dc395.ko (or alike) ; thanks.

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