Building an OLPC kernel

[Bastien]

Guys, please strip olpc-france@ mailing list from english conversations,
this is confusing.

Thanks!

Scott Douglass <scott at swdouglass.com> writes:

> On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 11:54 +0000, Rekik Hanen wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I found this link http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Kernel_Building and I
>> tried to follow it. But when I run "tar zcvf kern.tar.gz
>> arch/i386/boot/bzImage System.map /lib/modules/$VERS", I got this
>> error "tar: error exit delayed from previous errors".
>> Note that I use ubuntu 8.10 machine.
>> Can anyone help me !!!
>> thanks.
>
> This page is the best one related to building the OLPC kernel:
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rebuilding_OLPC_kernel
>
> You may find cloning my git repo will be slightly more entertaining
> though:
>
> git clone git://dev.laptop.org/users/scott/fedora-kernel
>
> Here you will find various things: a couple of pre-built good OLPC
> kernels (2.6.25 and 2.6.27) for reference, and a simpler way of building
> the kernel RPMS based on the OLPC source. Also some Makefiles for
> building OLPC drivers outside of the kernel source tree, so you can use
> them with Fedora kernels too.
>
> Ultimately, I intend to port the OLPC kernel changes into a Fedora
> kernel. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

-- 
 Bastien