Building Kernel in Debug Mode

[Jay Cliburn]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> bruce wrote:
> 
>> i'm looking to build the kernel from source - both regular, and in debug.
>> any pointers, sites, or instructions would be helpful...
> 
> Is there such a thing as a "debug" kernel?
> 
> You can get the "vanilla" kernel sources from http://www.kernel.org .
> On de-tarring this, you say"make xconfig"
> and you are offered a million options,
> some of which give greater debug output.
> This creates a file .config, and then you say
> "make", "make modules_install", "make install".
> 
> Your distribution probably supplies a model config file to start from.
> 

It probably goes without saying, but if you're running X and want to see 
kernel debug messages on the fly, launch 'xterm -C'.  That'll open a 
console window on your desktop.