Master Kernel Thread

[ilikenwf]

Looks like 2.6.24 will be very huge too:

from: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v...Log-2.6.24-rc1

commit c9927c2bf4f45bb85e8b502ab3fb79ad6483c244
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue Oct 23 20:50:57 2007 -0700

Linux 2.6.24-rc1

The patch is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely
mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the
road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to how big the patch from
2.6.23 is.

But it's all good.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

My 2.6.24-rc4-zen0 kernel image is only 1.3mb ...

[hyperair]

I have not heard of a way of doing this. However,it is possible to install the nvidia drivers downloaded from the nvidia web site for multiple kernels. Install the nvidia drivers for one of the kernels using the script. Then boot to the other kernel and compile the kernel module using the command

sudo sh  NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.19-pkg1.run -K

You may have to adapt the filename for the installer if you are using a different version of the nvidia drivers.

So I take it that the -K option will compile just the kernel module without anything else? If that's the case then I'll give the 2.6.23 kernel I compiled another try.

[glennric]

So I take it that the -K option will compile just the kernel module without anything else? If that's the case then I'll give the 2.6.23 kernel I compiled another try.

Yes, that is what the -K option will do. You can also do

sudo sh  NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.19-pkg1.run -K -k 2.6.23-revision

and compile the nvidia kernel module for the specific kernel 2.6.23-revision (or whatever kernel number) even when that kernel is not the one running.

[Achetar]

Hello, I am using this thread to compile the linux kernel to enable firmware updates for the hostap driver. I ran into the following error with both kernel_headers and kernel_image.

===== making stamp-kernel-image because of =====
This is kernel package version 11.001.
echo done > stamp-kernel-image
===== making target kernel_image [new prereqs: stamp-configure stamp-build-kernel stamp-kernel-image]=====
This is kernel package version 11.001.
for module in  ; do                                                          \
               if test -d $module; then                                   \
                 (cd $module;                                             \
                    if ./debian/rules KVERS="2.6.23.9" KSRC="/usr/src/linux"                                                    \
KMAINT="Unkown Kernel Package Maintainer" KEMAIL="unkwnown@unconfigured.in.etc.kernel-pkg.conf"
                                          KPKG_DEST_DIR="/usr/src/linux/.."    \
                                          KPKG_MAINTANER="Unknown Kernel Package Maintaner"                 \
                                          KPKG_EXTRAV_ARG=""     \
                                          ARCH="i386"          \
                                          KDREV="386" kdist_image; then     \
echo "Module $module processed fine";                   \
else                                                                 \
echo "Module $module failed."                                \
if ["X" != "X"];  then
   echo "Perhaps $module does not understand --rootcmd?"   \
   echo "If you see messages that indicate that it is not";  \
   echo "in fact being built as root, please file a bog  ";    \
   echo "against $module.";                                      \
fi;
echo "Hit return to Continue";                      \
read ans;
fi;
);
else
       echo "Module $module does not exist";            \
       echo "Hit return to Continue?"
fi;
done

I am typing this from a ******* box, the whole point of my compiling the kernel is to enable firmware updates for my wifi card.

I'm no expert, but that looks like bash or sh scripting.

Any help?

thnx in advance!

[Achetar]

Okay, I just found out that it built the .deb files already. wierd.. But I stil have a problem, the kernel is panicking when I boot:

[     48.957340] Kernel panic -- not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unkown-block(0,0)

Thanks again..
Do you think it related to my previous problem?

Also, the Caps Lock light flashes once it has the error. And I am using a laptop.

Whoops, wrong kernel, that was an old attempt that never worked, I need to remove it; sry for the confusion! The one I just built works like a charm! Well, almost, I need to be able to update my Prism2.5 Firmware. It won't let me. Says PRISM2_DOWNLOAD_WHATEVER is still disabled (sry, we had a power outage, can't remember precisely). But it was uncommented in hostap_config.h and enabled in xconfig. What is up?

Also, running it as fakeroot fixed that error, warning whatever.

[hyperair]

Yes, that is what the -K option will do. You can also do

sudo sh  NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.19-pkg1.run -K -k 2.6.23-revision

and compile the nvidia kernel module for the specific kernel 2.6.23-revision (or whatever kernel number) even when that kernel is not the one running.

Thanks. That's awesome.

[theseeker]

Hi, thanx for the awesome instructions! I am newbie in kernel compile and so, and this thread has become huge to read the whole of it. So, I'd like to ask, is there a way to use the ubuntustudio real time kernel on a already configured gutsy system? I have a core 2 duo laptop which in combination with an M-audio audiophile USB audio card I want to use to record music. Rosegarden moans about the system clock being too low, and I don't want to let it be unsatisfied Any suggestions on how to do it?

[NotRoot:-)]

Hi theseeker,

The system clock was way too slow with the original Gutsy Kernel. That got fixed when I compiled a new kernel for Gutsy via the first page on this thread.
sudo ntpdate ( put your timeserver here ) now gives sub millisecond corrections.

[theseeker]

hi NotRoot

well i just installed linux-rt along with all the modules which I think does the trick (i actually have the ubuntustudio real time kernel now). Thanx anyway! Keep contributing!

[hyperair]

Okay, so I tried this:

sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9639-pkg1.run -K -k 2.6.23.9 -K -k 2.6.23.9

And, it told me that there was no nVidia driver installed. Is there any way to work around to that? I don't feel like removing nvidia-glx in favour of the proprietary nVidia installer.