Wednesday, June 17, 2009

How about a Detailed Tour of the Linux Kernel?

The Building Process

Trying to build all the file systems from 2.6.x is quite a challenge by itself due the span of more than 5 years which passed from 2.6.0 (December 2003) to 2.6.29 (March 2009). Luckily, kbuild, the makefile-based build system did not change that much and I had to divide the releases in two groups: 2.6.0 to 2.6.12 (older half) and 1.6.13 o 2.6.29 (newer half). For the first one I had to use the....


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