Need real beginners kernel exploration advice !?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Leonid Podolny wrote:

> William Case wrote:
> > Hi;
> >
> > I think the time has come for me to start exploring the Linux kernel in
> > some depth.  I have installed kvm, qemu and git.  It seems to all be
> > present and working. I have reviewed the kvm, qemu and git sites about
> > how to start using those programs???
> >
>
> William, hi,
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "start exploring the Linux kernel". I
> assume that by that you mean "start developing in kernel
> environment" and not "compiling Linux kernel" (the latter doesn't
> require exploring as such). You already have kernel binary installed
> -- /boot/vmlinuz symlink points to it. As to sources, you should
> download the source RPM (src.rpm) and install it, just like regular
> rpm. Then, do rpmbuild -bp /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel.spec and it
> will put a vanilla kernel in /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.23/
> vanilla and Fedora kernel in
> /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.23/linux-2.6.23.x86_64/

i would instead recommend grabbing a copy of the kernel source tree
and putting it in your home directory somewhere, so you can do
everything up to (but not including) installing a new kernel as a
regular user.

rday

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