[PlanetCCRMA] Recompile kernel from src rpm

[Rick B]

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 11:57, Peter Lutek wrote:
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>>On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 13:45, Rick B wrote:
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>>>Hi all,
>>>    I want to recompile the 2.6.8.1-1.520.1vR9.ll.rhfc2.ccrma kernel to 
>>>not include some things built into the kernel (agpgart,etc).
>>>Since the kernel-source isn't available on the repository what is the 
>>>best way to do this? Sorry for my ignorance. If you have a link that 
>>>explains how please post it. I have kernel-2.6.8.1-1.520.1vR9.ll.src.rpm 
>>>and I know there must be a way to unpack this and recompile it.
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>>rpm -Uvh kernel-2.6.8.1-1.520.1vR9.ll.src.rpm
>>cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
>>bunzip2 linux-2.6.8.1.tar.bz
>>tar -xvf linux-2.6.8.1.tar
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>>this yields the full source tree under
>>/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/linux-2.6.8.1, with all the configs and patches
>>under /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
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>>at this point, i am confused. has the source under ...../linux-2.6.8.1
>>been patched already, or do we need to re-patch? if we need to patch, is
>>there a doc somewhere which outlines the order and content of patching? 
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>Read my email again. "rpmbuild -bp kernel-xxx.spec" will unpack all
>sources and patch them, the source tree will be in /usr/src/redhat/BUILD
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>>my specific issue is to attempt to get acpi functional (currently some
>>of the /proc/acpi/ directories are empty). i don't see the acpi patch in
>>..../SOURCES/ , so i'll have to apply that patch, but there may be
>>issues about when in the patch sequence i apply that one.
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>Acpi is already part of the kernel in 2.6.x, AFAIK it does not need a
>patch. 
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>The patches applied are specified in the .spec file that corresponds to
>the kernel. 
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>-- Fernando
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If you do a "cat /proc/interrupts" you should see acpi on IRQ 9.

                Rick B