[Debian-eeepc-devel] building a new deb package for kernel

[Darren Salt]

I demand that obregonmateo at gmail.com may or may not have written...

> On Thursday 18 September 2008, Darren Salt wrote:
>>> Silly question answered: Debian documentation describes how to make a new
>>> linux image with make-kpkg. I'll try this method.
>> $ fakeroot make-kpkg binary-arch
>> But watch out for the linux-headers-$VERSION package not containing
>> /usr/src/linux-headers-$VERSION/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu and containing a
>> bad symlink from /usr/src/linux-headers-$VERSION/include/asm to asm-i386
>> (should be to asm-x86).

> I don't see any linux-headers-2.6.26 package. I installed from
> linux-source-2.6.26.tar.bz2 for debian lenny.

Whereas I used upstream 2.6.26.5.

> I followed the web page instructions, that recommended running the
> following in the unpacked source tree:

> $ fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --revision=thermalsdhc.1.0 kernel_image

I used binary-arch, which is the same as using both kernel_image and
kernel_headers (see "make-kpkg --targets").

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