Anyone know where to get info on make cloneconfig. I haven't done it in a while and I can find anything in the SDB about it. I wanna go up to 2.4.4. -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.
* Ben Rosenberg [Sat, 12 May 2001 15:37:29 -0700]:
Anyone know where to get info on make cloneconfig. I haven't done it in a while and I can find anything in the SDB about it. I wanna go up to 2.4.4.
SuSE or vanilla kernel? For the latter you'd have to extract the patch from Huberts collection at pub/people/mantel/next. If you use the SuSE kernel *and* have a SuSE kernel running, just go to /usr/src/linux-2.4.4.SuSE and issue 'make cloneconfig'. It'll first do a 'zcat /proc/config.gz >.config' and then a 'make oldconfig'. More questions? Just holler ;-)) Philipp -- Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software. -- Bill Gates, 1976
I would like to know the answer to Ben's first question re: where to find info on make cloneconfig. I want to make some adjustments to my kernel, 2.4.2-4GB, to see if I can get v4l sorted out to run xawtv with my AIW32 card. I have no experience with building kernels, and thought that using cloneconfig might be safer than trying to do everything from scratch. I have downloaded lx_sus24-2.4.2.SuSE-5.i386.rpm Thanks Eddie On Sunday 13 May 2001 2:09 am, Philipp Thomas wrote:
* Ben Rosenberg [Sat, 12 May 2001 15:37:29 -0700]:
Anyone know where to get info on make cloneconfig. I haven't done it in a while and I can find anything in the SDB about it. I wanna go up to 2.4.4.
SuSE or vanilla kernel? For the latter you'd have to extract the patch from Huberts collection at pub/people/mantel/next. If you use the SuSE kernel *and* have a SuSE kernel running, just go to /usr/src/linux-2.4.4.SuSE and issue 'make cloneconfig'. It'll first do a 'zcat /proc/config.gz >.config' and then a 'make oldconfig'. More questions? Just holler ;-))
Philipp
Information on how to configure your kernel sources for compilation can be found in: http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/maddin_kernel_config.html After reading the above, remember that the special file /proc/config.gz is present only when you are running the pre-compiled SuSE kernel OR a kernel compiled from SuSE's sources (provided you enabled the feature when you configured it.) This feature is NOT available in the vanilla kernel sources. If you still want to use SuSE's configuration, do the following: 1. Boot the 2.4 SuSE kernel 2. Unpack your brand new kernel sources, say in /usr/src/linux. Go to that directory. 3. Retrieve the configuration from /proc/config.gz gzip -d < /proc/config.gz > .config 4. Do make oldconfig You may need to answer a few question for some of the new features added since your running kernel was released. 5. Now you can customize your kernel with either 'make menuconfig' or 'make xconfig'. 6. Run 'make dep', etc. etc. -- Rafael
A big thanks. When I get a chance I'll give it a try. Rather hard pressed for time at the mo. Hence I'm only just now reading your message. I've made so many attempts to sort out the kernel I don't know what state it is in. I was thinking that I am just going to have to live with the kernel module error messages, and a partially functional graphics card. Eddie On Monday 14 May 2001 4:00 pm, you wrote:
Information on how to configure your kernel sources for compilation can be found in:
http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/maddin_kernel_config.html
After reading the above, remember that the special file /proc/config.gz is present only when you are running the pre-compiled SuSE kernel OR a kernel compiled from SuSE's sources (provided you enabled the feature when you configured it.)
This feature is NOT available in the vanilla kernel sources. If you still want to use SuSE's configuration, do the following:
1. Boot the 2.4 SuSE kernel 2. Unpack your brand new kernel sources, say in /usr/src/linux. Go to that directory. 3. Retrieve the configuration from /proc/config.gz gzip -d < /proc/config.gz > .config 4. Do make oldconfig
You may need to answer a few question for some of the new features added since your running kernel was released. 5. Now you can customize your kernel with either 'make menuconfig' or 'make xconfig'. 6. Run 'make dep', etc. etc.
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