On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 20:24 -0600, Sam Williams wrote: > I have looked everywhere and have been unable to find the location of > the FC3 kernel source. I guess when you said everywhere, you mean everywhere except the FC3 release notes, the fedora mailing lists archives or Google. The answer to your question: >From file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html > > kernel > > In order to eliminate the redundancy inherent in providing a separate > package for the kernel source code when that source code already > exists in the kernel's .src.rpm file, Fedora Core 3 no longer includes > the kernel-source package. Users that require access to the kernel > sources can find them in the kernel .src.rpm file. To create an > exploded source tree from this file, perform the following steps (note > that <version> refers to the version specification for your currently- > running kernel): > > > 1. Obtain the kernel-<version>.src.rpm file from one of the > following sources: > > > * The SRPMS directory on the appropriate "SRPMS" CD iso > image > > * The FTP site where you got the kernel package > > * By running the following command: > > up2date --get-source kernel > > 2. Install kernel-<version>.src.rpm (given the default RPM > configuration, the files this package contains will be written > to /usr/src/redhat/) > > 3. Change directory to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/, and issue the > following command: > > rpmbuild -bp --target=<arch> kernel.spec > > (Where <arch> is the desired target architecture.) > > On a default RPM configuration, the kernel tree will be > located in /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/. > > 4. In resulting tree, the configurations for the specific kernels > shipped in Fedora Core 3 are in the /configs/ directory. For > example, the i686 SMP configuration file is > named /configs/kernel-<version>-i686-smp.config. Issue the > following command to place the desired configuration file in > the proper place for building: > > cp <desired-file> ./.config > > 5. Issue the following command: > > make oldconfig > > > You can then proceed as usual. > > > > Note > An exploded source tree is not required to build kernel modules > against the currently in-use kernel. > > For example, to build the foo.ko module, create the following file > (named Makefile) in the directory containing the foo.c file: > > > obj-m := foo.o > > KDIR := /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build > PWD := $(shell pwd) > > default: > $(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules > > > Issue the make command to build the foo.ko module. Regards, -- Ricardo Veguilla <veguilla@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
