curaga
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Posted: Mar. 30 2008,16:26 |
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To summarize 2.4 kernel compiling along with DSL procedures and your rt2500 driver:
- unpack the wanted kernel to /usr/src/linux-2.4.xx. The directory is not set in stone, it's just a habit to have 2.4 kernelsource there (which these out-of-tree drivers follow btw)
- have gcc1-with-libs and gnu-utils installed, without gcc 2.95 for gains (re-add gcc1-with-libs to overwrite it and symlink cc to gcc)
- cd there and copy the base DSL .config there from kernelsource.dsl (to the root of the unpacked linux-2.4.xx directory)
| Quote | make menuconfig
make dep
make bzImage modules
sudo make modules_install
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At the first step you will get to the configuration utility; you can select all parts in, out, or as a module, and get a description of each. First go to processor settings and set the cpu type to yours; this will get you the largest speed gains. Then drop a multitude of drivers not needed to save space 
| Quote | | sudo cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/mykernel |
Then just edit your bootloader to point to the new kernel, and your all set to reboot. If you chose grub, the file is /boot/grub/menu.lst.
After reboot you can compile the rt2500 driver (as it selects the running kernel on what to build for)
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