Kernel development on Fedora

[Sérgio Basto]

Hi,

On Sáb, 2015-09-12 at 18:31 -0400, W. Michael Petullo wrote:
> I am interested in doing some kernel development on Fedora. I am familiar
> with kernel internals, but I am looking for some tips to help manage the
> build, compile, and install cycle. Unfortunately, I am developing against
> the Linux Security Module interface, so my work cannot take the form of
> a kernel module.
> 
> I would like to build RPMs because they are convenient to install,
> and they manage the kernel configuration for me. Put another way, I
> would like for practical reasons to track the Fedora kernel source RPMs
> as opposed to the upstream kernel tree. (This will eventually change,
> but not yet.)  However, building RPMs results in a full build each time,
> slowing down the development cycle.
> 
> I thought that I could speed this up using rpmbuild's --short-circuit.
> My idea was to perform an "rpmbuild -bp" once, apply my own changes to
> the build tree, and then on each compile run "rpmbuild -bc", "-bi", and
> "-bb".  The problem is that the RPM build runs "make mrproper" as part
> of the %build target.
> 
> Does anyone know of a good work flow for developing custom kernel code
> on Fedora in a convenient way? The next best thing I could come up with
> is to recreate much of the kernel RPM's %build target without the "make
> mrproper" and other troublesome parts. But this sort of duplicates things
> that I would rather dynamically track by making use of each kernel RPM.

Google for "fedora custom kernel" 

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel

And here is my own notes:

How to patch and building a kernel for Fedora
http://www.serjux.com/build_kernel/build_kernel.txt


> Thank you,
> 
> -- 
> Mike
> 
> :wq

-- 
Sérgio M. B.