Re: Compiling an Alpha kernel

[Christopher Curtis <ccurtis ee fit edu>]

On Mon, 4 May 1998, Jeff DeMaagd wrote:

> > 'make config ; make dep ; make clean ; make boot modules ; make modules_install'

After that, "cp arch/alpha/boot/vmlinux.gz /"

> Thank you.  Now, along time ago I read that Alpha kernels can't be made
> modular.  Has this been changed, and are there any caveats?

Modules work fine on the Alpha; as well as on Intel.

To patch a pristine kernel:
cd /usr/src/linux
gunzip -c patches.gz | patch -p1

regards,
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