debian kernels

[Jeremy Turner]

> Some good references for compiling from source in debian are:
> http://myrddin.org/howto/debian-kernel-recompile.php
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch08s05.html.en
> http://www.e-aiyama.com/~toshi/Computer/Linux/KernelCompile.html

Sorry to reply to myself.  That last link on the list probably isn't the
best one to go off of.

Once I have my .config file created (going through the list takes the
longest for me), I run the following script:

------- bin/kernel-compile -------
#!/bin/sh
# usage: kernel-compile hostname version

ver=$2
host=$1

if [ ! $1 ] ; then
        host=`hostname`
fi

if [ ! $2 ] ; then
        ver=0
fi

time nice fakeroot make-kpkg --append_to_version -`date +%Y%m%d`
--revision=$host.$ver kernel_image modules_image

-------- end script -----

This nifty script adds the date (YYYYMMDD format), the hostname, and
optionally a version number, because I usually only compile kernels once a
month (or less often), and it usually takes several compiles before I get
the kernel I like.

Jeremy