building a new kernel for ubuntu 10.04

[Jamon Camisso]

On 05/12/2010 02:15 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 05:09:29AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>>   quick and dirty wiki page for building a new kernel for ubuntu
>> 10.04:
>>
>> http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/New_kernel_on_Ubuntu_10.04
>>
>> let me know if i missed anything critical.
> 
> How about missing out the making it into a .deb using make-kpkg.
> That seems like a major step to leave out.  make install and make
> module_install on the other hand should be left out of course.  That would
> also take care of update-initramfs and update-grub for you, and it is
> trivial to uninstall and clean up later.
> 
> Essentially your whole installation section is wrong and should be
> replaced with a make-kpkg and dpkg -i step.
> 

For make add -j to parallelize processes and speed up the compile, e.g.
make -j $(($(grep processor /proc/cpuinfo -c) + 1))
make -j $(awk -F "-" '{printf $2+2}' /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible)

Bash folk, syntax sanity check?

No point in wasting all but one of those cores in that fancy quad or
octal core box sitting under your desk ;)

Jamon
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