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  6. ]>
  7. <sect1 id="ch-bootable-kernel" role="wrap">
  8. <?dbhtml filename="kernel.html"?>
  9. <sect1info condition="script">
  10. <productname>linux</productname>
  11. <productnumber>&linux-version;</productnumber>
  12. <address>&linux-url;</address>
  13. </sect1info>
  14. <title>Linux-&linux-version;</title>
  15. <indexterm zone="ch-bootable-kernel">
  16. <primary sortas="a-Linux">Linux</primary>
  17. </indexterm>
  18. <sect2 role="package">
  19. <title/>
  20. <para>The Linux package contains the Linux kernel.</para>
  21. <segmentedlist>
  22. <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
  23. <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
  24. <seglistitem>
  25. <seg>&linux-ch8-sbu;</seg>
  26. <seg>&linux-ch8-du;</seg>
  27. </seglistitem>
  28. </segmentedlist>
  29. </sect2>
  30. <sect2 role="installation">
  31. <title>Installation of the kernel</title>
  32. <para>Building the kernel involves a few steps&mdash;configuration,
  33. compilation, and installation. Read the <filename>README</filename> file
  34. in the kernel source tree for alternative methods to the way this book
  35. configures the kernel.</para>
  36. <para>Prepare for compilation by running the following command:</para>
  37. <screen><userinput remap="pre">make mrproper</userinput></screen>
  38. <para>This ensures that the kernel tree is absolutely clean. The
  39. kernel team recommends that this command be issued prior to each
  40. kernel compilation. Do not rely on the source tree being clean after
  41. un-tarring.</para>
  42. <!-- Support for compiling a keymap into the kernel is deliberately removed -->
  43. <para>Configure the kernel via a menu-driven interface. For general
  44. information on kernel configuration see <ulink
  45. url="&hints-root;kernel-configuration.txt"/>. BLFS has some information
  46. regarding particular kernel configuration requirements of packages outside
  47. of LFS at <ulink
  48. url="&blfs-book;longindex.html#kernel-config-index"/>. Additional
  49. information about configuring and building the kernel can be found at
  50. <ulink url="http://www.kroah.com/lkn/"/> </para>
  51. <note>
  52. <para>A good starting place for setting up the kernel configuration is to
  53. run <command>make defconfig</command>. This will set the base
  54. configuration to a good state that takes your current system architecture
  55. into account.</para>
  56. <para>Be sure to enable or disable following features or the system might
  57. not work correctly or boot at all:</para>
  58. <screen role="nodump" revision="sysv">
  59. Device Drivers ---&gt;
  60. Generic Driver Options ---&gt;
  61. [ ] Support for uevent helper [CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER]
  62. [*] Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev [CONFIG_DEVTMPFS]</screen>
  63. <screen role="nodump" revision="systemd">
  64. General setup -->
  65. [ ] Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools [CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED]
  66. [ ] Enable deprecated sysfs features by default [CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2]
  67. [*] open by fhandle syscalls [CONFIG_FHANDLE]
  68. [ ] Auditing support [CONFIG_AUDIT]
  69. [*] Control Group support [CONFIG_CGROUPS]
  70. Processor type and features ---&gt;
  71. [*] Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode [CONFIG_SECCOMP]
  72. Networking support ---&gt;
  73. Networking options ---&gt;
  74. &lt;*&gt; The IPv6 protocol [CONFIG_IPV6]
  75. Device Drivers ---&gt;
  76. Generic Driver Options ---&gt;
  77. [ ] Support for uevent helper [CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER]
  78. [*] Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev [CONFIG_DEVTMPFS]
  79. [ ] Fallback user-helper invocation for firmware loading [CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER]
  80. Firmware Drivers ---&gt;
  81. [*] Export DMI identification via sysfs to userspace [CONFIG_DMIID]
  82. File systems ---&gt;
  83. [*] Inotify support for userspace [CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER]
  84. &lt;*&gt; Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3) [CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS]
  85. Pseudo filesystems ---&gt;
  86. [*] Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists [CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL]
  87. [*] Tmpfs extended attributes [CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR]</screen>
  88. </note>
  89. <note revision="systemd">
  90. <para>While "The IPv6 Protocol" is not strictly
  91. required, it is highly recommended by the systemd developers.</para>
  92. </note>
  93. <para revision="sysv">There are several other options that may be desired
  94. depending on the requirements for the system. For a list of options needed
  95. for BLFS packages, see the <ulink
  96. url="&lfs-root;blfs/view/&short-version;/longindex.html#kernel-config-index">BLFS
  97. Index of Kernel Settings</ulink>
  98. (&lfs-root;blfs/view/&short-version;/longindex.html#kernel-config-index).</para>
  99. <note>
  100. <para>If your host hardware is using UEFI, then the 'make defconfig'
  101. above should automatically add in some EFI-related kernel options.</para>
  102. <para>In order to allow your LFS kernel to be booted from within your
  103. host's UEFI boot environment, your kernel must have this option
  104. selected:</para>
  105. <screen role="nodump">Processor type and features ---&gt;
  106. [*] EFI stub support [CONFIG_EFI_STUB]</screen>
  107. <para>A fuller description of managing UEFI environments from within LFS
  108. is covered by the lfs-uefi.txt hint at
  109. <ulink
  110. url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/lfs-uefi.txt"/>.
  111. </para>
  112. </note>
  113. <variablelist>
  114. <title>The rationale for the above configuration items:</title>
  115. <varlistentry>
  116. <term><parameter>Support for uevent helper</parameter></term>
  117. <listitem>
  118. <para>Having this option set may interfere with device
  119. management when using Udev/Eudev. </para>
  120. </listitem>
  121. </varlistentry>
  122. <varlistentry>
  123. <term><parameter>Maintain a devtmpfs</parameter></term>
  124. <listitem>
  125. <para>This will create automated device nodes which are populated by the
  126. kernel, even without Udev running. Udev then runs on top of this,
  127. managing permissions and adding symlinks. This configuration
  128. item is required for all users of Udev/Eudev.</para>
  129. </listitem>
  130. </varlistentry>
  131. </variablelist>
  132. <screen role="nodump"><userinput>make menuconfig</userinput></screen>
  133. <variablelist>
  134. <title>The meaning of optional make environment variables:</title>
  135. <varlistentry>
  136. <term><parameter>LANG=&lt;host_LANG_value&gt; LC_ALL=</parameter></term>
  137. <listitem>
  138. <para>This establishes the locale setting to the one used on the
  139. host. This may be needed for a proper menuconfig ncurses interface
  140. line drawing on a UTF-8 linux text console.</para>
  141. <para>If used, be sure to replace
  142. <replaceable>&lt;host_LANG_value&gt;</replaceable> by the value of
  143. the <envar>$LANG</envar> variable from your host. You can
  144. alternatively use instead the host's value of <envar>$LC_ALL</envar>
  145. or <envar>$LC_CTYPE</envar>.</para>
  146. </listitem>
  147. </varlistentry>
  148. </variablelist>
  149. <para>Alternatively, <command>make oldconfig</command> may be more
  150. appropriate in some situations. See the <filename>README</filename>
  151. file for more information.</para>
  152. <para>If desired, skip kernel configuration by copying the kernel
  153. config file, <filename>.config</filename>, from the host system
  154. (assuming it is available) to the unpacked <filename
  155. class="directory">linux-&linux-version;</filename> directory. However,
  156. we do not recommend this option. It is often better to explore all the
  157. configuration menus and create the kernel configuration from
  158. scratch.</para>
  159. <para>Compile the kernel image and modules:</para>
  160. <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
  161. <para>If using kernel modules, module configuration in <filename
  162. class="directory">/etc/modprobe.d</filename> may be required.
  163. Information pertaining to modules and kernel configuration is
  164. located in <xref linkend="ch-scripts-udev"/> and in the kernel
  165. documentation in the <filename
  166. class="directory">linux-&linux-version;/Documentation</filename> directory.
  167. Also, <filename>modprobe.d(5)</filename> may be of interest.</para>
  168. <para>Install the modules, if the kernel configuration uses them:</para>
  169. <screen><userinput remap="install">make modules_install</userinput></screen>
  170. <para>After kernel compilation is complete, additional steps are
  171. required to complete the installation. Some files need to be copied to
  172. the <filename class="directory">/boot</filename> directory.</para>
  173. <caution>
  174. <para>If the host system has a separate /boot partition, the
  175. files copied below should go there. The easiest way to do that
  176. is to bind /boot on the host to /mnt/lfs/boot before proceeding.
  177. As the root user in the <emphasis>host system</emphasis>:</para>
  178. <screen role="nodump"><userinput>mount --bind /boot /mnt/lfs/boot</userinput></screen>
  179. </caution>
  180. <para>The path to the kernel image may vary depending on the platform being
  181. used. The filename below can be changed to suit your taste, but the stem of
  182. the filename should be <emphasis>vmlinuz</emphasis> to be compatible with
  183. the automatic setup of the boot process described in the next section. The
  184. following command assumes an x86 architecture:</para>
  185. <screen revision="sysv"><userinput remap="install">cp -v arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-&linux-version;-lfs-&version;</userinput></screen>
  186. <screen revision="systemd"><userinput remap="install">cp -v arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-&linux-version;-lfs-&versiond;</userinput></screen>
  187. <para><filename>System.map</filename> is a symbol file for the kernel.
  188. It maps the function entry points of every function in the kernel API,
  189. as well as the addresses of the kernel data structures for the running
  190. kernel. It is used as a resource when investigating kernel problems.
  191. Issue the following command to install the map file:</para>
  192. <screen><userinput remap="install">cp -v System.map /boot/System.map-&linux-version;</userinput></screen>
  193. <para>The kernel configuration file <filename>.config</filename>
  194. produced by the <command>make menuconfig</command> step
  195. above contains all the configuration selections for the kernel
  196. that was just compiled. It is a good idea to keep this file for future
  197. reference:</para>
  198. <screen><userinput remap="install">cp -v .config /boot/config-&linux-version;</userinput></screen>
  199. <para>Install the documentation for the Linux kernel:</para>
  200. <screen><userinput remap="install">install -d /usr/share/doc/linux-&linux-version;
  201. cp -r Documentation/* /usr/share/doc/linux-&linux-version;</userinput></screen>
  202. <para>It is important to note that the files in the kernel source
  203. directory are not owned by <emphasis>root</emphasis>. Whenever a
  204. package is unpacked as user <emphasis>root</emphasis> (like we did
  205. inside chroot), the files have the user and group IDs of whatever
  206. they were on the packager's computer. This is usually not a problem
  207. for any other package to be installed because the source tree is
  208. removed after the installation. However, the Linux source tree is
  209. often retained for a long time. Because of this, there is a chance
  210. that whatever user ID the packager used will be assigned to somebody
  211. on the machine. That person would then have write access to the kernel
  212. source.</para>
  213. <note>
  214. <para>In many cases, the configuration of the kernel will need to be
  215. updated for packages that will be installed later in BLFS. Unlike
  216. other packages, it is not necessary to remove the kernel source tree
  217. after the newly built kernel is installed.</para>
  218. <para>If the kernel source tree is going to be retained, run
  219. <command>chown -R 0:0</command> on the <filename
  220. class="directory">linux-&linux-version;</filename> directory to ensure
  221. all files are owned by user <emphasis>root</emphasis>.</para>
  222. </note>
  223. <warning>
  224. <para>Some kernel documentation recommends creating a symlink from
  225. <filename class="symlink">/usr/src/linux</filename> pointing to the kernel
  226. source directory. This is specific to kernels prior to the 2.6 series and
  227. <emphasis>must not</emphasis> be created on an LFS system as it can cause
  228. problems for packages you may wish to build once your base LFS system is
  229. complete.</para>
  230. </warning>
  231. <warning>
  232. <para>The headers in the system's <filename
  233. class="directory">include</filename> directory (<filename
  234. class="directory">/usr/include</filename>) should
  235. <emphasis>always</emphasis> be the ones against which Glibc was compiled,
  236. that is, the sanitised headers installed in <xref
  237. linkend="ch-system-linux-headers"/>. Therefore, they should
  238. <emphasis>never</emphasis> be replaced by either the raw kernel headers
  239. or any other kernel sanitized headers.</para>
  240. </warning>
  241. </sect2>
  242. <sect2 id="conf-modprobe" role="configuration">
  243. <title>Configuring Linux Module Load Order</title>
  244. <indexterm zone="conf-modprobe">
  245. <primary sortas="e-/etc/modprobe.d/usb.conf">/etc/modprobe.d/usb.conf</primary>
  246. </indexterm>
  247. <para>Most of the time Linux modules are loaded automatically, but
  248. sometimes it needs some specific direction. The program that loads
  249. modules, <command>modprobe</command> or <command>insmod</command>, uses
  250. <filename>/etc/modprobe.d/usb.conf</filename> for this purpose. This file
  251. needs to be created so that if the USB drivers (ehci_hcd, ohci_hcd and
  252. uhci_hcd) have been built as modules, they will be loaded in the correct
  253. order; ehci_hcd needs to be loaded prior to ohci_hcd and uhci_hcd in order
  254. to avoid a warning being output at boot time.</para>
  255. <para>Create a new file <filename>/etc/modprobe.d/usb.conf</filename> by running
  256. the following:</para>
  257. <screen><userinput>install -v -m755 -d /etc/modprobe.d
  258. cat &gt; /etc/modprobe.d/usb.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
  259. <literal># Begin /etc/modprobe.d/usb.conf
  260. install ohci_hcd /sbin/modprobe ehci_hcd ; /sbin/modprobe -i ohci_hcd ; true
  261. install uhci_hcd /sbin/modprobe ehci_hcd ; /sbin/modprobe -i uhci_hcd ; true
  262. # End /etc/modprobe.d/usb.conf</literal>
  263. EOF</userinput></screen>
  264. </sect2>
  265. <sect2 id="contents-kernel" role="content">
  266. <title>Contents of Linux</title>
  267. <segmentedlist>
  268. <segtitle>Installed files</segtitle>
  269. <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
  270. <seglistitem>
  271. <seg>config-&linux-version;,
  272. <phrase revision="sysv">vmlinuz-&linux-version;-lfs-&version;,</phrase>
  273. <phrase revision="systemd">vmlinuz-&linux-version;-lfs-&versiond;,</phrase>
  274. and System.map-&linux-version;</seg>
  275. <seg>/lib/modules, /usr/share/doc/linux-&linux-version;</seg>
  276. </seglistitem>
  277. </segmentedlist>
  278. <variablelist>
  279. <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
  280. <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
  281. <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
  282. <varlistentry id="config">
  283. <term><filename>config-&linux-version;</filename></term>
  284. <listitem>
  285. <para>Contains all the configuration selections for the kernel</para>
  286. <indexterm zone="ch-bootable-kernel config">
  287. <primary sortas="e-/boot/config">/boot/config-&linux-version;</primary>
  288. </indexterm>
  289. </listitem>
  290. </varlistentry>
  291. <varlistentry id="lfskernel">
  292. <term revision="sysv"><filename>vmlinuz-&linux-version;-lfs-&version;</filename></term>
  293. <term revision="systemd"><filename>vmlinuz-&linux-version;-lfs-&versiond;</filename></term>
  294. <listitem>
  295. <para>The engine of the Linux system. When turning on the computer,
  296. the kernel is the first part of the operating system that gets loaded.
  297. It detects and initializes all components of the computer's hardware,
  298. then makes these components available as a tree of files to the
  299. software and turns a single CPU into a multitasking machine capable
  300. of running scores of programs seemingly at the same time</para>
  301. <indexterm zone="ch-bootable-kernel lfskernel">
  302. <primary sortas="b-lfskernel">lfskernel-&linux-version;</primary>
  303. </indexterm>
  304. </listitem>
  305. </varlistentry>
  306. <varlistentry id="System.map">
  307. <term><filename>System.map-&linux-version;</filename></term>
  308. <listitem>
  309. <para>A list of addresses and symbols; it maps the entry points and
  310. addresses of all the functions and data structures in the
  311. kernel</para>
  312. <indexterm zone="ch-bootable-kernel System.map">
  313. <primary sortas="e-/boot/System.map">/boot/System.map-&linux-version;</primary>
  314. </indexterm>
  315. </listitem>
  316. </varlistentry>
  317. </variablelist>
  318. </sect2>
  319. </sect1>