how to compile the 0.01 version of kernel

how to compile the 0.01 version of kernel

[KK]

Hello All,
I was going through the linux kernel newbie articles in 
kernelnewbies.com and found it very interesting. I downloaded the 
tarballs for the 0.01 version of kernel from :
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/

Then the next thing I was trying to do was to compile the source code 
and try to understand the various methods/function calls, system calls 
etc, but I'm not able to compile the code, I'm getting the following 
errors:

     $ make -f Makefile
     gas -c -o boot/head.o boot/head.s
     make: gas: Command not found
     make: *** [boot/head.o] Error 127

Then I searched in the web for GAS and found that it GNU AS.  I've "as" 
installed in my box, so I tried creating a symlink with the name "gas" 
but then bumped into another error:

     $ make
     gas -c -o boot/head.o boot/head.s
     gas: unrecognized option `-c'
     make: *** [boot/head.o] Error 1

Is GNU AS same as "as" ? when running version check I got this:
     $ as --version
     GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.20.51.20100410
     Copyright 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the 
terms of
     the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.
     This program has absolutely no warranty.
     This assembler was configured for a target of `i686-cygwin'.

I tried searching on the web to find ways to install "GNU AS" but could 
not get any useful info. I'm facing similar problem with "GNU LD". Is it 
different from the "ld":
     $ ld --version
     GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.20.51.20100410
     Copyright 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the 
terms of
     the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) a 
later version.
     This program has absolutely no warranty.

Can someone help me installing these two or let me know what is the fix 
for the same.

I'm running cygwin on Win7-64 bit


Thanks

how to compile the 0.01 version of kernel

[Javier Martinez Canillas]

Hello,

>
> Then the next thing I was trying to do was to compile the source code
> and try to understand the various methods/function calls, system calls
> etc, but I'm not able to compile the code, I'm getting the following
> errors:
>

If you want to compile this kernel to understand how an operating
system works. I would recommend using a newer kernel version that you
can easily compile and test with current tools. Compiling a 0.01 with
today tools will be a pain and you would learn more about C compiling
and linking than operating system internals.

The Linux kernel is a really complex beast but also it is highly
modularized, so you can try to understand one aspect at a time. Also
there is much more documentation about recent kernels code that for a
kernel that old.

I would recommend buying some of the excellent books about Linux
kernel internals, the best book in my opinion is Robert Love's Linux
Kernel Development (http://amzn.to/i34vbB).

Another great books  are Linux Device Drivers
(http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/), Essential Linux Device Drivers
(http://amzn.to/bvELFI) and IA-64 Linux Kernel: Design and
Implementation (http://amzn.to/fTvV9z). Also lwn.net site has a lot of
documentation about the kernel in its Kernel index page
(http://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/).

I think that reading about the kernel internals while looking at the
source code and latter trying to hack the code is the best way to
learn about the Linux kernel an operating systems internals.

-- 
Best regards,

-----------------------------------------
Javier Mart?nez Canillas
(+34) 682 39 81 69

how to compile the 0.01 version of kernel

[loody]

hi:

2011/1/9 KK <nitric.acid@gmx.us>:
> Hello All,
> I was going through the linux kernel newbie articles in
> kernelnewbies.com and found it very interesting. I downloaded the
> tarballs for the 0.01 version of kernel from :
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/
>
> Then the next thing I was trying to do was to compile the source code
> and try to understand the various methods/function calls, system calls
> etc, but I'm not able to compile the code, I'm getting the following
> errors:
>
> ? ? $ make -f Makefile
> ? ? gas -c -o boot/head.o boot/head.s
> ? ? make: gas: Command not found
> ? ? make: *** [boot/head.o] Error 127
>
> Then I searched in the web for GAS and found that it GNU AS. ?I've "as"
> installed in my box, so I tried creating a symlink with the name "gas"
> but then bumped into another error:
>
> ? ? $ make
> ? ? gas -c -o boot/head.o boot/head.s
> ? ? gas: unrecognized option `-c'
> ? ? make: *** [boot/head.o] Error 1
>
> Is GNU AS same as "as" ? when running version check I got this:
> ? ? $ as --version
> ? ? GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.20.51.20100410
> ? ? Copyright 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> ? ? This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the
> terms of
> ? ? the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.
> ? ? This program has absolutely no warranty.
> ? ? This assembler was configured for a target of `i686-cygwin'.
>
> I tried searching on the web to find ways to install "GNU AS" but could
> not get any useful info. I'm facing similar problem with "GNU LD". Is it
> different from the "ld":
> ? ? $ ld --version
> ? ? GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.20.51.20100410
> ? ? Copyright 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> ? ? This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the
> terms of
> ? ? the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) a
> later version.
> ? ? This program has absolutely no warranty.
>
> Can someone help me installing these two or let me know what is the fix
> for the same.
>
> I'm running cygwin on Win7-64 bit
I have never try this before, but I can give you some suggestions that
I may try:
1. check Makefile and modify AS as the name on your machine.
2. try alias the gas with as on your cygiwn machine.
3. use a managed mount; this will help you avoid some file name
case-sensitivity issues
that crop up in the kernel source code (ex, the netfiler code uses file
names that differ only in case).
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html
PS: about item3 is excerpted from
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-07/msg00737.html

BTW, I sincerely suggest you may find any useful information on cygwin
mailing list.
Since most of people on cygwin can compile kernel successfully.

HTH,
miloody

how to compile the 0.01 version of kernel

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, KK wrote:

> Hello All,

> I was going through the linux kernel newbie articles in
> kernelnewbies.com and found it very interesting. I downloaded the
> tarballs for the 0.01 version of kernel from :
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/

  but ... why?  i can appreciate the historical entertainment value to
some extent, but nobody's going to hire you based on your familiarity
with the 0.01 version of the linux kernel.

  surely there are more interesting and potentially profitable ways to
spend your time that employers would care about.

rday

-- 

========================================================================
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                        http://crashcourse.ca

Twitter:                                       http://twitter.com/rpjday
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how to compile the 0.01 version of kernel

[Denis Kirjanov]

This guy has ported Linux to gcc4.x:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/abdel/readme
I think that will help you

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 6:14 PM, KK <nitric.acid@gmx.us> wrote:
> Hello All,
> I was going through the linux kernel newbie articles in
> kernelnewbies.com and found it very interesting. I downloaded the
> tarballs for the 0.01 version of kernel from :
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/
>
> Then the next thing I was trying to do was to compile the source code
> and try to understand the various methods/function calls, system calls
> etc, but I'm not able to compile the code, I'm getting the following
> errors:
>
> ? ? $ make -f Makefile
> ? ? gas -c -o boot/head.o boot/head.s
> ? ? make: gas: Command not found
> ? ? make: *** [boot/head.o] Error 127
>
> Then I searched in the web for GAS and found that it GNU AS. ?I've "as"
> installed in my box, so I tried creating a symlink with the name "gas"
> but then bumped into another error:
>
> ? ? $ make
> ? ? gas -c -o boot/head.o boot/head.s
> ? ? gas: unrecognized option `-c'
> ? ? make: *** [boot/head.o] Error 1
>
> Is GNU AS same as "as" ? when running version check I got this:
> ? ? $ as --version
> ? ? GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.20.51.20100410
> ? ? Copyright 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> ? ? This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the
> terms of
> ? ? the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.
> ? ? This program has absolutely no warranty.
> ? ? This assembler was configured for a target of `i686-cygwin'.
>
> I tried searching on the web to find ways to install "GNU AS" but could
> not get any useful info. I'm facing similar problem with "GNU LD". Is it
> different from the "ld":
> ? ? $ ld --version
> ? ? GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.20.51.20100410
> ? ? Copyright 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> ? ? This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the
> terms of
> ? ? the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) a
> later version.
> ? ? This program has absolutely no warranty.
>
> Can someone help me installing these two or let me know what is the fix
> for the same.
>
> I'm running cygwin on Win7-64 bit
>
>
> Thanks
>
> _______________________________________________
> Kernelnewbies mailing list
> Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
> http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
>



-- 
Regards,
Denis

how to compile the 0.01 version of kernel

[KK]

On 1/9/2011 9:41 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> Hello,
>
>> Then the next thing I was trying to do was to compile the source code
>> and try to understand the various methods/function calls, system calls
>> etc, but I'm not able to compile the code, I'm getting the following
>> errors:
>>
> If you want to compile this kernel to understand how an operating
> system works. I would recommend using a newer kernel version that you
> can easily compile and test with current tools. Compiling a 0.01 with
> today tools will be a pain and you would learn more about C compiling
> and linking than operating system internals.
>
> The Linux kernel is a really complex beast but also it is highly
> modularized, so you can try to understand one aspect at a time. Also
> there is much more documentation about recent kernels code that for a
> kernel that old.
>
> I would recommend buying some of the excellent books about Linux
> kernel internals, the best book in my opinion is Robert Love's Linux
> Kernel Development (http://amzn.to/i34vbB).
>
> Another great books  are Linux Device Drivers
> (http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/), Essential Linux Device Drivers
> (http://amzn.to/bvELFI) and IA-64 Linux Kernel: Design and
> Implementation (http://amzn.to/fTvV9z). Also lwn.net site has a lot of
> documentation about the kernel in its Kernel index page
> (http://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/).
>
> I think that reading about the kernel internals while looking at the
> source code and latter trying to hack the code is the best way to
> learn about the Linux kernel an operating systems internals.
>
Thanks for your suggestion, Martinez. You got me right, basically I want 
to learn the more about the linux kernel internals. I know the its 
almost next to impossible to get a good grasp of the current kernel, I 
thought may be I should start with the older kernels and try to get good 
basic understanding, play around  and thereby learn things.
and once I've got a decent understanding of things I'll select any 
particular module of my interest and go ahead digging deeper in that 
particular section. I dint know that compiling the older kernel is such 
a pain and yes this exercise will end up learning more on 
compilation/linking etc and not what I exactly want.

Thanks for your suggestion. I'm going to buy some really good book in 
linux kernel and start learning and hacking.  Please let me know if you 
have any other suggestion on learning linux kernel internals.


Thanks,
KK.

how to compile the 0.01 version of kernel

[KK]

Thanks for you suggestion Denis, I'll look into that link.

--KK


On 1/9/2011 10:10 PM, Denis Kirjanov wrote:
> This guy has ported Linux to gcc4.x:
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/abdel/readme
> I think that will help you
>
> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 6:14 PM, KK<nitric.acid@gmx.us>  wrote:
>> Hello All,
>> I was going through the linux kernel newbie articles in
>> kernelnewbies.com and found it very interesting. I downloaded the
>> tarballs for the 0.01 version of kernel from :
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/
>>
>> Then the next thing I was trying to do was to compile the source code
>> and try to understand the various methods/function calls, system calls
>> etc, but I'm not able to compile the code, I'm getting the following
>> errors:
>>
>>      $ make -f Makefile
>>      gas -c -o boot/head.o boot/head.s
>>      make: gas: Command not found
>>      make: *** [boot/head.o] Error 127
>>
>> Then I searched in the web for GAS and found that it GNU AS.  I've "as"
>> installed in my box, so I tried creating a symlink with the name "gas"
>> but then bumped into another error:
>>
>>      $ make
>>      gas -c -o boot/head.o boot/head.s
>>      gas: unrecognized option `-c'
>>      make: *** [boot/head.o] Error 1
>>
>> Is GNU AS same as "as" ? when running version check I got this:
>>      $ as --version
>>      GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.20.51.20100410
>>      Copyright 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>      This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the
>> terms of
>>      the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.
>>      This program has absolutely no warranty.
>>      This assembler was configured for a target of `i686-cygwin'.
>>
>> I tried searching on the web to find ways to install "GNU AS" but could
>> not get any useful info. I'm facing similar problem with "GNU LD". Is it
>> different from the "ld":
>>      $ ld --version
>>      GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.20.51.20100410
>>      Copyright 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>      This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the
>> terms of
>>      the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) a
>> later version.
>>      This program has absolutely no warranty.
>>
>> Can someone help me installing these two or let me know what is the fix
>> for the same.
>>
>> I'm running cygwin on Win7-64 bit
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Kernelnewbies mailing list
>> Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
>> http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
>>
>
>

how to compile the 0.01 version of kernel

[Mulyadi Santosa]

Hi...:)

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 22:14, KK <nitric.acid@gmx.us> wrote:
> Hello All,
> I was going through the linux kernel newbie articles in
> kernelnewbies.com and found it very interesting. I downloaded the
> tarballs for the 0.01 version of kernel from :
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/

OK, nice try, I appreciate that. Maybe you could try hacking that old
kernel inside such old distro too, let's say Slackware 3.3 which can
be found in this URL (this is just Slackware mirror):
http://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Slackware/
Look for version "3.3", that's the oldest I could find there. It's
dated October 3rd 1997.

Good luck....

-- 
regards,

Mulyadi Santosa
Freelance Linux trainer and consultant

blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com
training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com

how to compile the 0.01 version of kernel

[Berlin Brown]

There is a compilable 0.01 version of linux out there.  Don't take the
actual source.  You need a custom 0.01 kernel to work with the modern
compiler tools out there.

If you do make a version, you might try creating a VMWare VM and putting it
online.

This might be it.

http://draconux.free.fr/os_dev/linux0.01.html

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, KK wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
>
> > I was going through the linux kernel newbie articles in
> > kernelnewbies.com and found it very interesting. I downloaded the
> > tarballs for the 0.01 version of kernel from :
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/
>
>   but ... why?  i can appreciate the historical entertainment value to
> some extent, but nobody's going to hire you based on your familiarity
> with the 0.01 version of the linux kernel.
>
>  surely there are more interesting and potentially profitable ways to
> spend your time that employers would care about.
>
> rday
>
> --
>
> ========================================================================
> Robert P. J. Day                               Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
>                        http://crashcourse.ca
>
> Twitter:                                       http://twitter.com/rpjday
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how to compile the 0.01 version of kernel

[KK]

On 1/10/2011 4:09 AM, Berlin Brown wrote:
> There is a compilable 0.01 version of linux out there.  Don't take the 
> actual source.  You need a custom 0.01 kernel to work with the modern 
> compiler tools out there.
>
> If you do make a version, you might try creating a VMWare VM and 
> putting it online.
>
> This might be it.
>
> http://draconux.free.fr/os_dev/linux0.01.html
>
> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Robert P. J. Day 
> <rpjday at crashcourse.ca <mailto:rpjday@crashcourse.ca>> wrote:
>
>     On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, KK wrote:
>
>     > Hello All,
>
>     > I was going through the linux kernel newbie articles in
>     > kernelnewbies.com <http://kernelnewbies.com> and found it very
>     interesting. I downloaded the
>     > tarballs for the 0.01 version of kernel from :
>     > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/
>
>      but ... why?  i can appreciate the historical entertainment value to
>     some extent, but nobody's going to hire you based on your familiarity
>     with the 0.01 version of the linux kernel.
>
>      surely there are more interesting and potentially profitable ways to
>     spend your time that employers would care about.
>
>     rday
>
>     --
>
>     ========================================================================
>     Robert P. J. Day                               Waterloo, Ontario,
>     CANADA
>     http://crashcourse.ca
>
>     Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday
>     LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday
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>
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>
>
>
>
> -- 
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>
>
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Thanks to all of you for all your help.
Berlin, I'm downloading the source code for compilable 0.01 kenel that I 
can compile/run on my box. Thanks for everything. And once everything 
works out I'll put VMware/Virtualbox image on the web so that others 
like me can benefit from that. Thanks for the nice suggestion.

Thanks,
KK
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how to compile the 0.01 version of kernel

[Berlin Brown]

There might be other linux 0.01 variants, I can't remember which one is the
most stable.  If that version doesn't work, then try others.

I tried to create a similar project and it is tough work, but the Linux 0.01
code itself is not that complicated. If I remember it ranged in size of
about 15,000 lines of code.  That was only the kernel.  I had issues with
trying to get other software to work like VI, Bash, etc.

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:04 PM, KK <nitric.acid@gmx.us> wrote:

>  On 1/10/2011 4:09 AM, Berlin Brown wrote:
>
> There is a compilable 0.01 version of linux out there.  Don't take the
> actual source.  You need a custom 0.01 kernel to work with the modern
> compiler tools out there.
>
> If you do make a version, you might try creating a VMWare VM and putting it
> online.
>
> This might be it.
>
> http://draconux.free.fr/os_dev/linux0.01.html
>
> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, KK wrote:
>>
>> > Hello All,
>>
>> > I was going through the linux kernel newbie articles in
>> > kernelnewbies.com and found it very interesting. I downloaded the
>> > tarballs for the 0.01 version of kernel from :
>> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/
>>
>>   but ... why?  i can appreciate the historical entertainment value to
>> some extent, but nobody's going to hire you based on your familiarity
>> with the 0.01 version of the linux kernel.
>>
>>  surely there are more interesting and potentially profitable ways to
>> spend your time that employers would care about.
>>
>> rday
>>
>> --
>>
>> ========================================================================
>> Robert P. J. Day                               Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
>>                        http://crashcourse.ca
>>
>> Twitter:                                       http://twitter.com/rpjday
>> LinkedIn:                               http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday
>> ========================================================================
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>> Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
>> http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
>>
>
>
>
> --
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> http://botnode.com
> http://berlinbrowndev.blogspot.com/
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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>
>
> Thanks to all of you for all your help.
> Berlin, I'm downloading the source code for compilable 0.01 kenel that I
> can compile/run on my box. Thanks for everything. And once everything works
> out I'll put VMware/Virtualbox image on the web so that others like me can
> benefit from that. Thanks for the nice suggestion.
>
> Thanks,
> KK
>



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