[PlanetCCRMA] compiling the planetCCRMA kernel

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 20:06 -0700, Rich E wrote:
> The directions linked above, combined with Fernando's suggestion,
> allows me to compile
> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/all/linux/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.16-1.2080.16.rrt.src.rpm 
> with wacom support. 
> 
> Is there a similar smp kernel source, or do I have to do some editing
> to the kernel-spec file? When using this kernel on my P4 2.4 with
> hyperthreading, it seems hyperthreading is disabled.

Rebuilding the source rpm should create both uniprocessor and
multiprocessor kernels...

-- Fernando


> On 8/30/06, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
>         On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 23:37 -0400, Rich E wrote:
>         > Hello,
>         >
>         > It seems this topic has been discussed a couple times, but I
>         still
>         > cannot find any clear directions for recompiling
>         PlanetCCRMA's kernel 
>         > from source.  This is necessary in my case because the
>         PlanetCCRMA
>         > kernel doesn't include the Wacom drivers from the
>         Linux-Wacom project.
>         > So (in Fedora) I have to throw in some source files from
>         Linux-Wacom 
>         > and rebuild..
>         >
>         > They have some instructions for recompiling Fedora's kernel
>         at
>         >
>         http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/howto/debwacomnosrc
>         >
>         > but this doesn't work for the PlanetCCRMA kernel. I get the
>         sources,
>         > rpm -ivh them and do:
>         >
>         >  rpmbuild -bp
>         --target=i686 /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel.spec
>         >  Building target platforms: i686 
>         >  Building for target i686
>         >  error: line 203: Dependency tokens must begin with
>         alpha-numeric, '_'
>         > or '/': Prereq: %{kernel_prereq}
>         
>         When building you have to define a macro according to the
>         distro you 
>         want to build for (all in one line):
>         
>         rpmbuild -bp --define "fc5 1"
>         --target=i686 /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel.spec
>         
>         or "fc4 1" for fc4... (I use the same spec file for both
>         distros) 
>         
>         -- Fernando
>         
>         
>         > It would be nice to have this process documented since, as
>         Nando
>         > mentions, there are still many patches that aren't included
>         in the
>         > PlanetCCRMA package.  I would like to be able to work from
>         this 
>         > package since it is well developed, but it would be nice to
>         be able to
>         > customize things also..
>         
>         
>