recipe for building my own kernel for 10.04?

[Tom H]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>  since i prefer to build and run my own kernels (and i want to test a
> few things like ftrace), is there a recipe for doing the kernel thing
> for 10.04?
>
>  i found something that looks good for a starting point here (ignore
> the PPC component):
>
> http://www.ppcnux.com/?q=node/7599
>
> but i want to do things slightly differently.
>
>  first, i suspect i'm good to use as a config file what's currently
> in /boot/config-2.6.32-21-generic.  at the very least, that will
> represent a fairly good starting point.
>
>  next, i don't want to pull down the kernel source as a package, i
> want to clone a git repo so i can keep up with current developments.
> ideally, i'd like to use the main git repo at kernel.org, unless
> ubuntu makes considerable changes to the stock kernel source.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/GitKernelBuild