For viewing in google document use
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B_nTbpzPbbNJY2QwZDU3YzEtMDA0ZC00NDYzLTg2ZTEtZjg5ZTA3MjEzNWNj&hl=en
Use the updated document
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B_nTbpzPbbNJOTljYjVhNTQtOTgwYi00NTI4LThlOWEtZTFiOGEyOTE5MWIy&hl=en
For downloading as PDF use the following link
https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B_nTbpzPbbNJY2QwZDU3YzEtMDA0ZC00NDYzLTg2ZTEtZjg5ZTA3MjEzNWNj
Use the updated document
https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B_nTbpzPbbNJOTljYjVhNTQtOTgwYi00NTI4LThlOWEtZTFiOGEyOTE5MWIy
After doing the kernel compilation, do an update-grub as root to regenerate the correct boot options for the new kernel
To view the images in PDF properly, ZOOM more than 250 percentage
Thank you a lot!
ReplyDeleteFor me this was the best documentation about compiling a kernel in squeeze that i was able to find. Luckily I have an i7, too and so i was able to perform the exact same optimizations you did :)
Your documents lack of explanation would be on the one hand a risk to unexperienced users, but on the other hand, which unexperienced user would try to compile a kernel? (so the first part of this sentence is not valid)
I was able to compile a kernel in a very short time, because you focused on the important steps, and when I didn't really know what for example update-initramfs would do, I read the manual and googled for what initramfs is.
It is very hard to find up-to-date explanations for standard-procedures in linux like compiling a kernel, because it seems to be perfectly clear for people who started with linux earlier how to do these, also on new releases of a distribution, where things slightly changed (and in the debian wiki for example, not everything is up to date). So all-in-all: Best up-to-date documentation i could imagine about compiling a kernel in squeeze.
If you perhaps have more awesome resources, like those in the document, I'd be happy if you mailed them to me
Try this updated one
ReplyDeletehttp://duopetalflower.blogspot.com/2010/11/kernel-compilation-in-ten-steps-ubuntu.html
I compiled 2.6.36.1 kernel from kernel.org using my own documentation!!
The latest trick I found while compiling kernel is to compile ipv6 as a module so that I can blacklist it. This is very easy after I found the trick.
ReplyDeleteWe need to goto networking options in make menuconfig to compile ipv6 as a module (Should press space bar in ipv6 to change from * to M)
After this, /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
and add blacklist ipv6 at the end of the file and reboot
Voila, no ipv6 which bogs networking
And if you are so very interested in kernel compilation, try arch linux or gentoo linux
ReplyDeleteit is a highway for kernel compilation compared to Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora
Thanks a lot again, I think I really need to try out arch or gentoo, great direction you led me there. When I have lecture-free time, that'll be my big project :)
ReplyDeleteUntil then I'll collect information about which modules I don't need at all and which I better compile and manage as a module, like ipv6. Would be great to have a minimal setting there.
I'll report you if I successfully achieved something in that case, perhaps it's worth a blog entry, perhaps not.
Keep up the good blogging :)
Thanks for the well documented instructions, while reading this i finally understood why the module i compiled from source wouldn't work (i still use the 2.6.32 binary kernel but wanted to recompile the modules to have a powernow-k7.ko module with modifications (manual freq/voltage table for a mobile athlon on a desktop mobo that allows only a (low) part of the range of the CPU)).
ReplyDeleteI forgot the 'Load an alternate config file' step so the module was recognised as one for a different kernel.
Going to recompile the modules only for now, lot of work... but when i've some time, compiling for specific CPU and preemptible seems very tempting... maybe adding a backport of the low-latency patch BTW :-)
About Gentoo, indeed it compiles anything with great ease, even some pre-alpha software (used it 4 years), great for a development box. But global system maintenance and update is better handled/way cheaper in time (IMHO) on deb based distros.
About Arch, stil not tried it, heard very good report about it from friends... maybe next distro on my to-try list.
To test 2.6.38 optimized for core2, follow this link
ReplyDeleteNicely done kernel build guide.
ReplyDeleteIt's better than the official Debian document.
Thanks.
Whoever has the EDID spamming bug, especially ATI radaeon graphic driver, make a file in /etc/modprobe.d/ directory like below.
/etc/modprobe.d/EDID-off.conf
options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1
It will stop the EDID spam on next boot. ^^
Yesterday I compiled the linux kernel for the first time, following your tutorial, and it worked well. Since I've had problems with my Acer laptop overheating I actually took it outside! So there it ticked away alone on the steps of the house in the winter cold for some two hour... ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks,
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