Kernel recompile
The use of gcc, binutils, and modutils
from Debian unstable may help when compiling the latest Linux kernel. See /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz, especially the bottom of this, for the official information.
Since it is a moving target, kernel compilation is a difficult subject that may confuse even the most admired developer:
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
--initrd requires a Debian-only cramfs patch.
Herbert Xu wrote:
No it does not, all you have to do to use a filesystem other than CRAMFS is to set MKIMAGE in /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf.
Be careful and always rely on the /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz by Manoj and Kent. Make sure to obtain the latest unstable version of the kernel-package
package if you are to compile the latest version of the kernel.
initrd is not needed for a kernel compiled only for one machine. I use it since I want my kernel to be almost the same as the one provided by the kernel-image packages. If you use initrd, make sure to read mkinitrd(8) and mkinitrd.conf(5). See also http://bugs.debian.org/149236.
