Re: [linux-audio-user] Realtime-lsm for SuSE 9.3 x86_64 - Attn: Rui Nuno Capela

On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 12:14 +0100, David Haggett wrote:
> Hi, list
>
> Sometime ago (May) I asked about realtime under SUSE 9.3, and received the
> following advice from Rui (for which I am grateful). When it actually came
> down to it, I bottled out so never followed this through, opting to run all
> the applications I needed as root.
>
> "The way to go is installing kernel-source package and apply the
> realtime-lsm patch to the kernel source tree.
>
> "Just (re)build and install the patched kernel, but take special care to
> set the following, while on kernel configuration:
>
> CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES=N
> CONFIG_SECURITY_REALTIME=M "
>
> I'm a bit worried about mucking up my system (also used for general purpose
> computing), and I was hoping someone could give me some further advice:
>
> If I patch and reconfigure the kernel source, is that likely to break
> future compilation using the default kernel?
>
> Is it possible to copy the contents of /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-21.9/
> to another location (something like /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-21.9-rt)
> and apply the patch and compile there, or is it better just to patch
> the suse source directly, accessing it via the /usr/src/linux symlink?
>
> Also I noticed there's a directory called /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-21.9-obj
>
> Do patches automatically change the kernel identifier so that when I do
> a make modules_install it will create a new directory instead of copying
> them over the modules from the running kernel? Is there a way to make
> sure it does?
>
> Is it OK to manually copy the vmlinuz and system.map file into /boot
> with a name appropriate to the kernel version?
>
> Is it good practice to reference kernels directly in the GRUB menu.lst
> by their real names rather than the symlink (when presenting the option
> to boot more then one)?
>
> I'm really sorry for the basic questions - I'm still a relative newbie to
> Linux. I've thought about trying out a dedicated multimedia distro, but
> really comfortable with SuSE now.
>
> Thanks in advance

I googled for "suse compile custom kernel", which returned some useful
info, especially this one:
http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.php?showtopic=13704

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Frode Haugsgjerd
Norway