Re: [CentOS] compiling centos 6.5 linux-2.6.32-431.el6-kernel

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Ned Slider ned@unixmail.co.uk wrote:

On 19/06/14 05:57, Dilip Basavaraju wrote:

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Dear all,

         I have compiled the  linux-2.6.32-431.el6-kernel with the following steps

1. Make mproper

2. Make menuconfig

3. Make

4. Make modules

5. Make modules_install

The compilation is successful but there is a huge change in the size of the .ko generated compared to original .ko from the rpm.

Please suggest the steps to compile the centos linux-2.6.32-431.el6-kernel and use the modules and to build the kernel.rpm

It's extremely well documented in the 3 kernel articles on the Wiki:

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos#head-c4dbf9ecb355694c78175c7eaad46a2472a3849b

And as to the size of the modules being big, this blog explains it all:

http://blog.toracat.org/2009/03/strip-it-but-not-all-of-it/

Akemi