Compile the kernel

[Tom H]

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:01 AM, Amedee Van Gasse (ub)
<amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
> On Wed, June 2, 2010 10:52, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, jon at jcosby.com wrote:
>>
>>> Quoting "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>:
>>>
>>> >   not that long ago, i wrote a little HOWTO here:
>>> >
>>> > http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/New_kernel_on_Ubuntu_10.04
>>> >
>>> > the disclaimer is that it can be even shorter as i was unaware of the
>>> > "make-kpkg" utility, so i should probably update that page.  as it is,
>>> > though, it does work.
>
> *snip*
>
> I'm sorry if I am spoiling all your fun, but there is *official* Ubuntu
> documentation about building an upstream (plain vanilla) kernel:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/GitKernelBuild
>
> Please also read the documentation about building an Ubuntu kernel:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile

The help.ubu.. link is for ubuntu kernel sources not clean, kernel.org ones.

I would not call the wiki.ubuntu... link official. Anyone can edit
them. IIRC, Robert added something about "make oldconfig" when he was
looking at docs for writing his howto.