Hi Paul, On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:40:19 +0000 Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Andre Costa wrote: > > I am used to configuring my own kernels, because I drop a lot of > > stuff I don't really use. Lately, kernel-source RPMs have been > > deprecated in favor of SRPMs. I do can build new versions from them, > > but there are a couple of issues: > > > > 1. I generate kernel sources with > > > > rpmbuild --target i686 -bp kernel-2.6.spec > > > > and then I move the resulting > > .../redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6.9 to /usr/src/linux , and > > then do 'make bzImage modules modules_install install' (usually > > after a 'make oldconfig' using my own .config file). > > An alternative approach is described at > http://crab-lab.zool.ohiou.edu/kevin/kernel-compilation-tutorial-en/ > > This method results in a new kernel RPM that you can install/uninstall > just like any other kernel RPM. Nice doc, it definitely looks like it is what I need. Thks. > > 2. there's no support for 'athlon' architecture > > > > I have an athlon-XP CPU, and if I plainly run 'rpmbuild -bp > > kernel-2.6.spec' it barfs that athlon is not supported and bails > > out. Browsing through spec file I couldn't indeed find specific > > support for it. Any special reason for that? > > I know that RedHat say that an i686 build should be used for athlons, > and you can get that using --target i686 as you described earlier. It > would seem to make sense to me though for the spec file to > automatically select the right architecture to use if none were > specified. Yeah, I thought so, too. Anyway, as others have pointed, it seems optimizations for athlon arch are done runtime (... I still have to learn how this could be more efficient than compile-time optimizations, but one thing I've learned is not to doubt Linux kernel developers ;)) Thks again for the help. Best, Andre -- Andre Oliveira da Costa
