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er76
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 Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 2:14 am Post subject: Way to build all the kernel modules [Solved] |
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Is there a way to build all of the kernel modules or enable all of the options in the kernel?
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Ast0r
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 2:27 am Post subject: |
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Some options are mutually exclusive, so it's not possible to enable all of them and have a working system.
However, if you don't want a custom kernel, then use genkernel. That should give you all of the kernel modules. |
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dsd
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troymc
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 10:10 am Post subject: |
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make help will show you all the useful make targets for your kernel.
Here's mine:
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# uname -r
2.6.16-gentoo-r7-v6
#
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# make help
Cleaning targets:
clean - remove most generated files but keep the config
mrproper - remove all generated files + config + various backup files
Configuration targets:
config - Update current config utilising a line-oriented program
menuconfig - Update current config utilising a menu based program
xconfig - Update current config utilising a QT based front-end
gconfig - Update current config utilising a GTK based front-end
oldconfig - Update current config utilising a provided .config as base
randconfig - New config with random answer to all options
defconfig - New config with default answer to all options
allmodconfig - New config selecting modules when possible
allyesconfig - New config where all options are accepted with yes
allnoconfig - New minimal config
Other generic targets:
all - Build all targets marked with [*]
* vmlinux - Build the bare kernel
* modules - Build all modules
modules_install - Install all modules to INSTALL_MOD_PATH (default: /)
dir/ - Build all files in dir and below
dir/file.[ois] - Build specified target only
dir/file.ko - Build module including final link
rpm - Build a kernel as an RPM package
tags/TAGS - Generate tags file for editors
cscope - Generate cscope index
kernelrelease - Output the release version string
kernelversion - Output the version stored in Makefile
Static analysers
buildcheck - List dangling references to vmlinux discarded sections
and init sections from non-init sections
checkstack - Generate a list of stack hogs
namespacecheck - Name space analysis on compiled kernel
Kernel packaging:
rpm-pkg - Build the kernel as an RPM package
binrpm-pkg - Build an rpm package containing the compiled kernel
and modules
deb-pkg - Build the kernel as an deb package
tar-pkg - Build the kernel as an uncompressed tarball
targz-pkg - Build the kernel as a gzip compressed tarball
tarbz2-pkg - Build the kernel as a bzip2 compressed tarball
Documentation targets:
Linux kernel internal documentation in different formats:
xmldocs (XML DocBook), psdocs (Postscript), pdfdocs (PDF)
htmldocs (HTML), mandocs (man pages, use installmandocs to install)
Architecture specific targets (x86_64):
* bzImage - Compressed kernel image (arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage)
install - Install kernel using
(your) ~/bin/installkernel or
(distribution) /sbin/installkernel or
install to $(INSTALL_PATH) and run lilo
make V=0|1 [targets] 0 => quiet build (default), 1 => verbose build
make O=dir [targets] Locate all output files in "dir", including .config
make C=1 [targets] Check all c source with $CHECK (sparse)
make C=2 [targets] Force check of all c source with $CHECK (sparse)
Execute "make" or "make all" to build all targets marked with [*]
For further info see the ./README file
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AaronPPC
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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This caught my eye:
| Code: | | randconfig - New config with random answer to all options |
How is that useful?
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truc
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| AaronPPC wrote: | This caught my eye:
| Code: | | randconfig - New config with random answer to all options |
How is that useful? |
was actually wondering the same thing  |
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dsd
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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for testing that dependencies between kernel components are explicitly stated in the kernel source (otherwise you can produce a compile/link failure just by selecting 'invalid' option combinations in menuconfig)
as an example, every USB driver must depend on USB support, otherwise it will not compile.
(that was an easy one, but there are some quite complicated relationships, and randconfig helps to point them out)
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