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by **Mikhail Kuzmins** » Tue, 30 Apr 2002 23:43:22

1)I've RH 7.2 RPM's (kernel-source-2.4.7-10 and kernel-headers-2.4.7-
10) installed, and now I want to do upgrade to 2.4.18.

Tar-file of 2.4.18 contains only linux/* files and directories,
which will place under usual /usr/src/. They'll replace
/usr/src/linux/ files from kernel-source-2.4.7-10.

But RPM kernel-headers-2.4.7-10 includes
/boot/kernel.h-2.4.7,
/usr/include/asm and /usr/include/linux directories
- and where should I take the replacements for files of this RPM ?

2) I want to create the kernel version with features close
to standard RH kernel (2.4.7-10smp). But where I may find the list
of possible new (added) CONFIG_* -parameters for 2.4.18 in comparison
w/2.4.7-10 ?

Should I run make oldconfig and compare w/2.4.7-10smp.config
string-by-string ?

Thanks for a future help !

Mikhail Kuzminsky
Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry
Moscow

3) BTW, in kernel-HOWTO I found that tools like gpm and hdparm
requires kernel patches. Is it just right for 2.4.18 kernel also ?

Yours
Mikhail Kuzminsky

by **Ravindra Jaj** » Wed, 01 May 2002 23:04:27

> 1)I've RH 7.2 RPM's (kernel-source-2.4.7-10 and kernel-headers-2.4.7-
> 10) installed, and now I want to do upgrade to 2.4.18.
> Tar-file of 2.4.18 contains only linux/* files and directories,
> which will place under usual /usr/src/. They'll replace
> /usr/src/linux/ files from kernel-source-2.4.7-10.
> But RPM kernel-headers-2.4.7-10 includes
> /boot/kernel.h-2.4.7,
> /usr/include/asm and /usr/include/linux directories
> - and where should I take the replacements for files of this RPM ?

Actually, you need not worry so much. Things take care of themselves.

untar/(g|b)unzip in, say, /usr/src/kernel, run 'make config; make dep;
make bzImage; make modules; make modules_install', copy the bzImage
file to /boot, edit the grub.conf files, and start using.

In the /lib/modules/<kernel-version> directory, there's a symlink
which will point to ( in this case ) /usr/src/kernel/linux.
Applications which need to use headers etc. will use this.

Quote:> 2) I want to create the kernel version with features close
> to standard RH kernel (2.4.7-10smp). But where I may find the list
> of possible new (added) CONFIG_* -parameters for 2.4.18 in comparison
> w/2.4.7-10 ?
> Should I run make oldconfig and compare w/2.4.7-10smp.config
> string-by-string ?

Well, RH makes quite a few changes to the standard kernel.
So, I suggest you get the kernel-src rpm from ftp.redhat.com
and then install and run 'make oldconfig'. That might help.

They have precompiled binaries for SMP et al too.

Quote:> 3) BTW, in kernel-HOWTO I found that tools like gpm and hdparm
> requires kernel patches. Is it just right for 2.4.18 kernel also ?

Must be an old HOWTO. You need not apply patches.

--
jaju

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