From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: esr@thyrsus.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Penelope builds a kernel
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:24:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C435AAE.F3AEB93@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020114165909.A20808@thyrsus.com>
"Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
> Penelope needs to build a kernel to support her exotic driver, but she
> hasn't got more than the vaguest idea how to go about it. The
> instructions with the driver source patch tell her to apply it at the
> top level of a current Linux source tree and then just say "build the
> kernel" before getting off into technicalia about the user-space
> tools.
Very few hardware vendors give out kernel patches... if any. The end
user method of choice I've seen is a tarball with files to build, or a
single .c file to build. Kernel autoconfiguration for vendor drivers
rarely comes into play, because the driver is built against the "current
kernel" headers, but not with the standard kernel build system and
tools.
Oh, and is Penelope single?
Jeff
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-14 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-14 21:59 Penelope builds a kernel Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-14 22:24 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-01-14 22:28 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2002-01-14 22:32 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-01-14 22:32 ` Chris Friesen
2002-01-14 22:35 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-01-14 22:38 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-14 23:00 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-01-14 23:05 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-14 23:38 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-01-15 1:53 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-15 2:36 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-01-15 11:53 ` Matthias Andree
2002-01-15 22:32 ` James Antill
2002-01-15 22:28 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-16 1:29 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-15 23:00 ` Diego Calleja
2002-01-14 22:37 ` Bruce Harada
2002-01-15 0:56 ` Thomas Duffy
2002-02-01 20:46 ` Pavel Zaitsev
2002-01-14 22:44 ` Richard Gooch
2002-01-14 22:45 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-14 23:15 ` Richard Gooch
2002-01-15 15:53 ` salvador
2002-01-14 23:08 ` Chris Ricker
2002-01-14 23:14 ` Tom Gilbert
2002-01-15 0:50 ` Nathan Walp
2002-01-15 1:24 ` John Levon
2002-01-15 1:39 ` Tom Rini
2002-01-15 2:07 ` John Levon
2002-01-15 3:59 ` Tom Rini
2002-01-15 13:28 ` David Woodhouse
2002-01-15 19:53 ` Ingo Oeser
2002-01-15 20:37 ` David Woodhouse
2002-01-15 21:00 ` Matthew M
2002-01-16 21:31 ` Felix von Leitner
[not found] <d7.11a4a260.2974c807@aol.com>
2002-01-14 23:51 ` Jeff Garzik
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