Linux Kernel building steps

[brian_31]

Team:

Coud you please send me the steps for building a new linux kernel?

Thanks

Brian

[Huc_1]

The best is to read the part you are interested in at the following link

http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/Kernel-Build-HOWTO.html#WHY-REBUILD

There is a lots there but you will find what you need on make clean ... etc in better way then I could posibly hope to do here

Jean-Pierre Huc

[Senthil Prabu.S_1]

Hi,
Following link will be pretty useful.
http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO-2.html


hth,
Prabu.S

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

Brian,

May I ask you *why* do you want to compile kernel? Linux kernel is very customizable and you can a lot of things without recompilation.

Using self-made kernel will prevent you from getting support from Linux vendor (RH, for example).

Rgds,
Vitaly

[Renjith Nair]

thanks for the document provided, i was searching for how to compile the kernel. bcoz my problem is that My 2.1 As machine is not taking AMD display driver. I found this document very useful and thanks for a lot.


thanks & regards

Renjith Nair