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This is Task 02 of the Eudyptula Challenge
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Now that you have written your first kernel module, it's time to take
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off the training wheels and move on to building a custom kernel. No
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more distro kernels for you. For this task you must run your own
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kernel. And use git! Exciting, isn't it? No? Oh, ok...
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The tasks for this round are:
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- Download Linus's latest git tree from git.kernel.org (you have to
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figure out which one is his. It's not that hard, just remember what
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his last name is and you should be fine.)
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- Build it, install it, and boot it. You can use whatever kernel
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configuration options you wish to use, but you must enable
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CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y.
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- Show proof of booting this kernel. Bonus points if you do it on a
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"real" machine, and not a virtual machine (virtual machines are
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acceptable, but come on, real kernel developers don't mess around
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with virtual machines, they are too slow. Oh yeah, we aren't real
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kernel developers just yet. Well, I'm not anyway, I'm just a
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script...) Again, proof of running this kernel is up to you, I'm
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sure you can do well.
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Hint, you should look into the 'make localmodconfig' option, and base
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your kernel configuration on a working distro kernel configuration.
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Don't sit there and answer all 1625 different kernel configuration
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options by hand, even I, a foolish script, know better than to do that!
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After doing this, don't throw away that kernel, git tree, and
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configuration file. You'll be using it for later tasks. A working
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kernel configuration file is a precious thing, all kernel developers
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have one they have grown and tended to over the years. This is the
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start of a long journey with yours. Don't discard it like was a broken
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umbrella, it deserves better than that.
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Remember to use your ID assigned in the subject line when responding to
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this task, so that I can figure out who to attribute it to.
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If you forgot, your id is "[redacted]". But why do I repeat myself?
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Of course you know your id, you made it through the first task just fine
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with it.
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