dphys-kernel-packages Kernel Tools

Project Basics

This project has produced an dphys-kernel-packages script which generates variant config files and then invokes make-kpkg on each of them for the kernel and for all external modules the user wants. For external modules the user must provide Makefile fragments for including into the generated debian/rules file, for the module specific compilation process. It also generates for each kernel an fitting reboot package that can be used to force dphys-admin to reboot the system after install/upgrade of the kernel.

It has also produced an dphys-kernel-cputype script which detects at install time which generated set of kernel and module packages to install on a given system.

This project was spawned from the dphys3 project, aimed at automating our site setup. dphys3 itsself sets up the base system, then the custom kernels form here are installed by dphys-admin.

Project Status

Done are:

• Generate variant configs
• unpack and compile kernel
• unpack and compile external modules
• also support 2.6 kernels
• auto detect which kernel type is needed

• Updated dphys-kernel-cputype to detect dual core CPUs
• Added some more example modules rules

• dphys-kernel-cputype: Fixed memory detection via lshw
• dphys-kernel-cputype: Optionally suppress detection of older hardware (less than 1GB RAM and non-SMP machines)
• dphys-kernel-cputype: More configurable via /etc/dphys-kernel-packages and ~/.dphys-kernel-packages
• dphys-kernel-cputype: Recognizing of Intel Xeon CPUs

• Fixes falling into interactive mode with make oldconfig
• Added concurrency level configuration option
• Changed reboot package names from kernel-* to linux-*
• Bumped debhelper compatibility from 3 to 5
• Fixed syntax error on Sid because lshw now reports MiB instead of MB, GiB instead of GB, etc.
• Support for Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU

• Making reboot packages optional
• Making working dir configurable (default: /var/tmp)
• Support for Intel Pentium E2200 and similar CPUs

Todo are:

• Docs + Testing: concurrency level configuration option<

Code Download

• Installation Guide
• entire project: dphys-kernel-packages.tar.gz
• single files:
  • Makefile, control process
  • dphys-kernel-packages, generate kernel packages
  • dphys-kernel-packages.1, man page for dphys-kernel-packages
  • dphys-kernel-cputype, check which variant to install
  • dphys-kernel-cputype.1, man page for dphys-kernel-cputype
  • dphys-kernel-packages.example, example config file, containing only the default settings as comments, to adapt to your site
  • 2.4.example, example p1-1gb .config file and some modules .rules files, as we use them for 2.4 kernels
  • 2.6.example, example p1-1gb .config file and some modules .rules files, as we use them for 2.6 kernels
  • rules.example/, examples for some modules .rules (3w-9xxx, OpenAFS, Nvidia, VMware, ALSA, shfs)

• Installation Guide
• entire project: dphys-kernel-packages-20080612.tar.gz
• single files:
  • Makefile, control process
  • dphys-kernel-packages, generate kernel packages
  • dphys-kernel-packages.1, man page for dphys-kernel-packages
  • dphys-kernel-cputype, check which variant to install
  • dphys-kernel-cputype.1, man page for dphys-kernel-cputype
  • dphys-kernel-packages.example, example config file, containing only the default settings as comments, to adapt to your site
  • 2.4.example, example p1-1gb .config file and some modules .rules files, as we use them for 2.4 kernels
  • 2.6.example, example p1-1gb .config file and some modules .rules files, as we use them for 2.6 kernels
  • rules.example/, examples for some modules .rules (3w-9xxx, OpenAFS, Nvidia, VMware, ALSA, shfs)

• Installation Guide
• entire project: dphys-kernel-packages-20080213.tar.gz
• single files:
  • Makefile, control process
  • dphys-kernel-packages, generate kernel packages
  • dphys-kernel-packages.1, man page for dphys-kernel-packages
  • dphys-kernel-cputype, check which variant to install
  • dphys-kernel-cputype.1, man page for dphys-kernel-cputype
  • dphys-kernel-packages.example, example config file, containing only the default settings as comments, to adapt to your site
  • 2.4.example, example p1-1gb .config file and some modules .rules files, as we use them for 2.4 kernels
  • 2.6.example, example p1-1gb .config file and some modules .rules files, as we use them for 2.6 kernels
  • rules.example/, examples for some modules .rules (3w-9xxx, OpenAFS, Nvidia, VMware, ALSA, shfs)

• Installation Guide
• entire project: dphys-kernel-packages-20070307.tar.gz
• single files:
  • Makefile, control process
  • dphys-kernel-packages, generate kernel packages
  • dphys-kernel-packages.1, man page for dphys-kernel-packages
  • dphys-kernel-cputype, check which variant to install
  • dphys-kernel-cputype.1, man page for dphys-kernel-cputype
  • dphys-kernel-packages.example, example config file, containing only the default settings as comments, to adapt to your site
  • 2.4.example, example p1-1gb .config file and some modules .rules files, as we use them for 2.4 kernels
  • 2.6.example, example p1-1gb .config file and some modules .rules files, as we use them for 2.6 kernels
  • rules.example/, examples for some modules .rules (3w-9xxx, OpenAFS, Nvidia, VMware, ALSA, shfs)

• Installation Guide
• entire project: dphys-kernel-packages-20061027.tar.gz
• single files:
  • Makefile, control process
  • dphys-kernel-packages, generate kernel packages
  • dphys-kernel-packages.1, man page for dphys-kernel-packages
  • dphys-kernel-cputype, check which variant to install
  • dphys-kernel-cputype.1, man page for dphys-kernel-cputype
  • dphys-kernel-packages.example, example config file, containing only the default settings as comments, to adapt to your site
  • 2.4.example, example p1-1gb .config file and some modules .rules files, as we use them for 2.4 kernels
  • 2.6.example, example p1-1gb .config file and some modules .rules files, as we use them for 2.6 kernels

Authors

External Stuff (Links)

• Debian main site
• Our Debian mirror
• dphys3 project this project was spawned from

This page is by Neil Franklin, last modification 2006.10.27