followup on last post -- i'm using this page to build a new kernel for my f20 system:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel
is that page meant to be up to date? if so, it needs a bit of tweaking. (and, yes, i *know* it's a wiki but i'm not confident enough to want to change it myself.)
mostly, the problem seems to be here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel#Build_the_New_Kernel
"For example, to build just the kernel and kernel-devel packages, the command would be:
rpmbuild -bb --with baseonly --without debuginfo --target=`uname -m` kernel.spec"
uh, no. if that's all you specify, you get *way* more packages than just kernel and kernel-devel -- when my build worked earlier today, i think i counted 11. so that claim is a massive underestimate, but i'll let someone higher up the food chain deal with it.
rday
On 10.02.2014, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
uh, no. if that's all you specify, you get *way* more packages than just kernel and kernel-devel -- when my build worked earlier today, i think i counted 11. so that claim is a massive underestimate, but i'll
You can do it another way:
1. Take the .config from Fedora (/boot/config-xxxx) as a starting point, or create your own one 2. Download the latest kernel source from kernel.org and extract it 3. Copy your .config into the root of the source-tree 4. make oldconfig 5. make 6. make modules_install 7. make install 8. Reboot
This kernel will live peacefully alongside with your existing Fedora kernel(s).
On Tue, 11 Feb 2014, Heinz Diehl wrote:
On 10.02.2014, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
uh, no. if that's all you specify, you get *way* more packages than just kernel and kernel-devel -- when my build worked earlier today, i think i counted 11. so that claim is a massive underestimate, but i'll
You can do it another way:
- Take the .config from Fedora (/boot/config-xxxx) as a starting
point, or create your own one 2. Download the latest kernel source from kernel.org and extract it 3. Copy your .config into the root of the source-tree 4. make oldconfig 5. make 6. make modules_install 7. make install 8. Reboot
This kernel will live peacefully alongside with your existing Fedora kernel(s).
well, sure, but that's definitely not equivalent to building from the official fedora source rpm, which comes with red hat-supplied patches.
rday
On 12.02.2014, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
well, sure, but that's definitely not equivalent to building from the official fedora source rpm, which comes with red hat-supplied patches.
Unless you're using something very special which depends on those patches, you'll be fine with a vanilla kernel. (I've never used any Fedora kernel and have not encountered any drawbacks so far..).
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Robert P. J. Day