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These are minimum steps required to test if your Fedora 15 has everything it needs to build custom Kernel RPM. Lines starting with "#" are actions done with root. Lines starting with "$" are done with non-root user. Downloading # yum install @"Development Tools" # yum install rpmdevtools yum-utils $ rpmdev-setuptree $ yumdownloader --source kernel # yum-builddep kernel-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15 # yum install qt3-devel qt3 libXi-devel Note for Fedora 15: If you are experiencing problems related to missing dependencies, mainly on x64 systems, try to add --enablerepo=updates-testing on the end of yum commands, so it will look like: # yum install @"Development Tools" --enablerepo=updates-testing Preparing $ rpm -Uvh kernel-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.src.rpm $ cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS $ rpmbuild -bp --target=$(uname -m) kernel.spec $ cd ../BUILD $ cp -r kernel-2.6.38.fc15/ kernel-2.6.38.fc15.orig $ cp -a kernel-2.6.38.fc15.orig kernel-2.6.38.fc15.new $ cd ../SPECS $...

Have you heard about distcc? distcc home page distcc is a program to distribute builds of C, C++, Objective C or Objective C++ code across several machines on a network. distcc should always generate the same results as a local build, is simple to install and use, and is usually much faster than a local compile. As I'll compile Linux Kernel hundreds of times in the upcoming months, and as I have two available servers, I decided to give distcc a try. It is easy to install and use. There are two modes: Regular and Pump-mode. Regular mode is easy to use but I was not able to boost the performance over 15%. The pump-mode did not work on my 64 bits system. I've tried pump-mode on 32 bits system, it worked easily but the performance gain wasn't as high as I was expecting. For now I decided to not use distcc. But I learned about a magic performance argument for "make". It is "-jX", where X is the number of simultaneous actions that "make" will ...

I got inspired by: The origins of Linux I was bored and looking for genuine challenges! I think I found it! I'll become Linux Kernel Developer. This goal is turning my boredom into fun! My 4 fun steps plan: 1 - Update my 2006 article about kernel modification. The updated version will follow the community rules, and will expand concepts explanation. 2 - Read three books that Linus talks about: C Programming Language , The Design of the Unix Operating System , and Operating Systems Design and Implementation . 3 - After being away from the keyboard to read the books... Start to hunt and kill Kernel Bugs. Today I would choose to do this at Device Mapper or at Memory Swapping. 4 - Becoming productive! This means being able to make patches that are accepted by the Kernel Development community.

If you are planning to make custom kernel on Fedora 15, I suggest that you follow: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel But the command: su -c 'yum-builddep kernel-version.src.rpm' Will not resolve all dependecies you need. Before running: make xconfig You will need to: su -c 'yum install qt3-devel qt3 libXi-devel' This fixes the errors: [peter@notepeter kernel-2.6.38.fc15]$ make xconfig CHECK qt * Unable to find the QT4 tool qmake. Trying to use QT3 * * Unable to find any QT installation. Please make sure that * the QT4 or QT3 development package is correctly installed and * either qmake can be found or install pkg-config or set * the QTDIR environment variable to the correct location. * HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o sed scripts/kconfig/lkc_defs.h 's/P(\([^,]*\),.*/#define \1 (\*\1_p)/' HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/kconfig_load.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.o SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/lex.zconf.c HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o mak...