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Since I should document this somewhere, here's the procedure
for building the Slackware kernel package.  I do not patch the official
kernel sources, but it's not exactly a virgin either.

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Version specific notes (if any):
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For a 2.6.x kernel (much easier):

   Untar Linus' source in /usr/src.
   Make all files owned by root:root with reasonable perms.
   Install a suitable .config, or use make menuconfig, etc.

   An example would be to use one of the config files here:
   # cat config-generic-2.6.33.4 > /usr/src/linux-2.6.33.4/.config

   Then run the build programs:

   make oldconfig
   make bzImage
   make clean
   make prepare
   rm .version

That's it!  You now have a clean Slackware-configured Linux source
tree.

The kernel in Slackware supports SMP.  With as common as
multicore CPUs and SMP boards have become, this seemed like the
obvious choice.  The kernels are probably better for single CPU
machines, too, if they will run them.

At this point if you are running huge.s or generic.s, you should have
no problems building kernel modules.
 
Have fun! :-)

Pat

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 kernel-generic-smp/                                  13-May-2010 04:41    -   
 kernel-generic/                                      13-May-2010 07:00    -   
 kernel-huge-smp/                                     13-May-2010 05:48    -   
 kernel-huge/                                         13-May-2010 07:28    -   
 kernel-modules-smp/                                  13-May-2010 04:41    -   
 kernel-modules/                                      13-May-2010 07:00    -   
 README.TXT                                           13-May-2010 09:05  1.2K  
 README_SPEAKUP_PATCH.TXT                             13-May-2010 09:06  2.6K  
 config-generic-2.6.33.4                              13-May-2010 06:28  106K  
 config-generic-smp-2.6.33.4-smp                      13-May-2010 04:08  106K  
 config-huge-2.6.33.4                                 13-May-2010 07:17  106K  
 config-huge-smp-2.6.33.4-smp                         13-May-2010 05:41  106K  
 config-speakup-2.6.33.4                              13-May-2010 07:44  106K  
 linux-2.6.33.4.tar.sign                              13-May-2010 00:09  248   
 linux-2.6.33.4.tar.xz                                13-May-2010 00:09   52M  
 speakup-2009-12-30.tar.xz                            31-Dec-2009 02:15  105K  

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