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- <sect1 id="ch-bootable-kernel" role="wrap">
- <?dbhtml filename="kernel.html"?>
- <sect1info condition="script">
- <productname>linux</productname>
- <productnumber>&linux-version;</productnumber>
- <address>&linux-url;</address>
- </sect1info>
- <title>Linux-&linux-version;</title>
- <indexterm zone="ch-bootable-kernel">
- <primary sortas="a-Linux">Linux</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <sect2 role="package">
- <title/>
- <para>The Linux package contains the Linux kernel.</para>
- <segmentedlist>
- <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
- <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>&linux-ch8-sbu;</seg>
- <seg>&linux-ch8-du;</seg>
- </seglistitem>
- </segmentedlist>
- </sect2>
- <sect2 role="installation">
- <title>Installation of the kernel</title>
- <para>Building the kernel involves a few steps—configuration,
- compilation, and installation. Read the <filename>README</filename> file
- in the kernel source tree for alternative methods to the way this book
- configures the kernel.</para>
- <para>Prepare for compilation by running the following command:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="pre">make mrproper</userinput></screen>
- <para>This ensures that the kernel tree is absolutely clean. The
- kernel team recommends that this command be issued prior to each
- kernel compilation. Do not rely on the source tree being clean after
- un-tarring.</para>
- <!-- Support for compiling a keymap into the kernel is deliberately removed -->
- <para>Configure the kernel via a menu-driven interface. For general
- information on kernel configuration see <ulink
- url="&hints-root;kernel-configuration.txt"/>. BLFS has some information
- regarding particular kernel configuration requirements of packages outside
- of LFS at <ulink
- url="&blfs-root;view/svn/longindex.html#kernel-config-index"/>. </para>
- <note><para>Due to recent changes in <application>udev</application>, be sure to
- select:</para>
-
- <screen role="nodump">Device Drivers --->
- Generic Driver Options --->
- Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev</screen></note>
- <screen role="nodump"><userinput>make LANG=<replaceable><host_LANG_value></replaceable> LC_ALL= menuconfig</userinput></screen>
- <variablelist>
- <title>The meaning of the make parameters:</title>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><parameter>LANG=<host_LANG_value> LC_ALL=</parameter></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>This establishes the locale setting to the one used on the host.
- This is needed for a proper menuconfig ncurses interface line
- drawing on UTF-8 linux text console.</para>
- <para>Be sure to replace <replaceable><host_LANG_value></replaceable>
- by the value of the <envar>$LANG</envar> variable from your host.
- If not set, you could use instead the host's value of <envar>$LC_ALL</envar>
- or <envar>$LC_CTYPE</envar>.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- <para>Alternatively, <command>make oldconfig</command> may be more
- appropriate in some situations. See the <filename>README</filename>
- file for more information.</para>
- <para>If desired, skip kernel configuration by copying the kernel
- config file, <filename>.config</filename>, from the host system
- (assuming it is available) to the unpacked <filename
- class="directory">linux-&linux-version;</filename> directory. However,
- we do not recommend this option. It is often better to explore all the
- configuration menus and create the kernel configuration from
- scratch.</para>
- <para>Compile the kernel image and modules:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
- <para>If using kernel modules, module configuration in <filename
- class="directory">/etc/modprobe.d</filename> may be required.
- Information pertaining to modules and kernel configuration is
- located in <xref linkend="ch-scripts-udev"/> and in the kernel
- documentation in the <filename
- class="directory">linux-&linux-version;/Documentation</filename> directory.
- Also, <filename>modprobe.conf(5)</filename> may be of interest.</para>
- <para>Install the modules, if the kernel configuration uses them:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="install">make modules_install</userinput></screen>
- <para>After kernel compilation is complete, additional steps are
- required to complete the installation. Some files need to be copied to
- the <filename class="directory">/boot</filename> directory.</para>
- <para>The path to the kernel image may vary depending on the platform being
- used. The filename below can be changed to suit your taste, but the stem of
- the filename should be <emphasis>vmlinuz</emphasis> to be compatible with
- the automatic setup of the boot process described in the next section. The
- following command assumes an x86 architecture:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="install">cp -v arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-&linux-version;-lfs-&version;</userinput></screen>
- <para><filename>System.map</filename> is a symbol file for the kernel.
- It maps the function entry points of every function in the kernel API,
- as well as the addresses of the kernel data structures for the running
- kernel. It is used as a resource when investigating kernel problems.
- Issue the following command to install the map file:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="install">cp -v System.map /boot/System.map-&linux-version;</userinput></screen>
- <para>The kernel configuration file <filename>.config</filename>
- produced by the <command>make menuconfig</command> step
- above contains all the configuration selections for the kernel
- that was just compiled. It is a good idea to keep this file for future
- reference:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="install">cp -v .config /boot/config-&linux-version;</userinput></screen>
- <para>Install the documentation for the Linux kernel:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="install">install -d /usr/share/doc/linux-&linux-version;
- cp -r Documentation/* /usr/share/doc/linux-&linux-version;</userinput></screen>
- <para>It is important to note that the files in the kernel source
- directory are not owned by <emphasis>root</emphasis>. Whenever a
- package is unpacked as user <emphasis>root</emphasis> (like we did
- inside chroot), the files have the user and group IDs of whatever
- they were on the packager's computer. This is usually not a problem
- for any other package to be installed because the source tree is
- removed after the installation. However, the Linux source tree is
- often retained for a long time. Because of this, there is a chance
- that whatever user ID the packager used will be assigned to somebody
- on the machine. That person would then have write access to the kernel
- source.</para>
- <para>If the kernel source tree is going to be retained, run
- <command>chown -R 0:0</command> on the <filename
- class="directory">linux-&linux-version;</filename> directory to ensure
- all files are owned by user <emphasis>root</emphasis>.</para>
- <warning>
- <para>Some kernel documentation recommends creating a symlink from
- <filename class="symlink">/usr/src/linux</filename> pointing to the kernel
- source directory. This is specific to kernels prior to the 2.6 series and
- <emphasis>must not</emphasis> be created on an LFS system as it can cause
- problems for packages you may wish to build once your base LFS system is
- complete.</para>
- </warning>
- <warning>
- <para>The headers in the system's
- <filename class="directory">include</filename> directory should
- <emphasis>always</emphasis> be the ones against which Glibc was compiled,
- that is, the sanitised headers from this Linux kernel tarball.
- Therefore, they should <emphasis>never</emphasis> be replaced by either
- the raw kernel headers or any other kernel sanitized headers.</para>
- </warning>
- </sect2>
- <sect2 id="conf-modprobe" role="configuration">
- <title>Configuring Linux Module Load Order</title>
- <indexterm zone="conf-modprobe">
- <primary sortas="e-/etc/modprobe.d/usb.conf">/etc/modprobe.d/usb.conf</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <para>The <filename>/etc/modprobe.d/usb.conf</filename> file needs to be
- created so that if the USB drivers (ehci_hcd, ohci_hcd and uhci_hcd) have
- been built as modules, they will be loaded in the correct order; ehci_hcd
- needs to be loaded prior to ohci_hcd and uhci_hcd in order to avoid a
- warning being output at boot time.</para>
- <para>Create a new file <filename>/etc/modprobe.d/usb.conf</filename> by running
- the following:</para>
- <screen><userinput>install -v -m755 -d /etc/modprobe.d
- cat > /etc/modprobe.d/usb.conf << "EOF"
- <literal># Begin /etc/modprobe.d/usb.conf
- install ohci_hcd /sbin/modprobe ehci_hcd ; /sbin/modprobe -i ohci_hcd ; true
- install uhci_hcd /sbin/modprobe ehci_hcd ; /sbin/modprobe -i uhci_hcd ; true
- # End /etc/modprobe.d/usb.conf</literal>
- EOF</userinput></screen>
- </sect2>
- <sect2 id="contents-kernel" role="content">
- <title>Contents of Linux</title>
- <segmentedlist>
- <segtitle>Installed files</segtitle>
- <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>config-&linux-version;,
- vmlinux-&linux-version;-lfs-&version;-&linux-version;, and
- System.map-&linux-version;</seg>
- <seg>/lib/modules, /usr/share/doc/linux-&linux-version;</seg>
- </seglistitem>
- </segmentedlist>
- <variablelist>
- <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
- <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
- <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
- <varlistentry id="config">
- <term><filename>config-&linux-version;</filename></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Contains all the configuration selections for the kernel</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-bootable-kernel config">
- <primary sortas="e-/boot/config">/boot/config-&linux-version;</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="lfskernel">
- <term><filename>vmlinux-&linux-version;-lfs-&version;</filename></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The engine of the Linux system. When turning on the computer,
- the kernel is the first part of the operating system that gets loaded.
- It detects and initializes all components of the computer's hardware,
- then makes these components available as a tree of files to the
- software and turns a single CPU into a multitasking machine capable
- of running scores of programs seemingly at the same time</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-bootable-kernel lfskernel">
- <primary sortas="b-lfskernel">lfskernel-&linux-version;</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="System.map">
- <term><filename>System.map-&linux-version;</filename></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A list of addresses and symbols; it maps the entry points and
- addresses of all the functions and data structures in the
- kernel</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-bootable-kernel System.map">
- <primary sortas="e-/boot/System.map">/boot/System.map-&linux-version;</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </sect2>
- </sect1>
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