Compiling your own kernel
From Xbox-Linux
NOTE: THIS is a wip as i am building the kernel myself right now so there are going to be missing step like how to install it and such till i get to that part on my xbox everything that its down here u can start doing it ;)
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Intro:
This guide will help you patch the kernel downloadeble from kernel.org and apply the latest xbox-linux patch to it. u know i feel intimidate when i knew i had to compile the kernel myself i tought woo lot of .c files and c++ coding style files but actually its not intimidating its easy but a little extensive and the only part u are going to get tire its when u have to awnser all the question about what do u want to get in the kernel.
Things u need:
the only thing you should need will be the following ones:
kernel from kernel.org
matching version number kenel patch
if u dont have rpm-build install it the following way
yum install rpm-build
and matching kernel version
what this means it that u have to patch same version kernels example if u download a kernel version
2.6.16 from here ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6
u should download the same kernel version from xbox-linux sourceforge site
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=54192&package_id=147485
we should get the most recent kernel that has a patch for the xbox in this case 2.6.16 without
subnumber so its 2.6.16 not 2.6.16.1
now that u have downloaded the patches.
Extracting the files
u should extract the kernel first to /usr/src/
u can download the kernel in 2 compresion formats gz and bz2. check wich one u downloaded and look for
the method on how to extracting then
for bz2 u can use this
bunzip2 spankythefish.bz2
then move the content of the extrated file to /usr/src/ using mv
mv /where_the_kernel_is/ /usr/src/
now we need to extract the patch file its in .gz format
tar -zxf compressed-patch-file-name-here.gz
then we move the content of that folder to....[have to check where did i extracted them]
mv /xbox-patch.patch /usr/src/......<have to look where dit i extracted this>
Or, you can do the following:
cd /usr/src/<kernel source> cat <path to xbox-patch.patch> | patch -p1
Patching the Kernel
then once we have the .patch file extracted we need to patch the kernel with that file how the
following way
patch -p1 xbox-patch.patch
this command what will do its run patch and the -p1 will strip directorys from that path so if u have /usr/src/ u apply -p1
the the patch will search in /src/ instead of /usr/src
Thanks Too
Shallax and the guys on xbox-linux irc channel Getty ;) and google you dont know how much i have used google while doing this as i am new to linux i have to google every command :P
