[linux-audio-user] Realtime-lsm for SuSE 9.3 x86_64 - Attn: Rui Nuno Capela

[Frode Haugsgjerd]

On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 12:14 +0100, David Haggett wrote:
> Hi, list
> 
> Sometime ago (May) I asked about realtime under SUSE 9.3, and received the 
> following advice from Rui (for which I am grateful). When it actually came 
> down to it, I bottled out so never followed this through, opting to run all 
> the applications I needed as root.
> 
>   "The way to go is installing kernel-source package and apply the
>   realtime-lsm patch to the kernel source tree.
> 
>   "Just (re)build and install the patched kernel, but take special care to
>   set the following, while on kernel configuration:
> 
>   CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES=N
>   CONFIG_SECURITY_REALTIME=M "
> 
> I'm a bit worried about mucking up my system (also used for general purpose 
> computing), and I was hoping someone could give me some further advice:
> 
>   If I patch and reconfigure the kernel source, is that likely to break
>   future compilation using the default kernel?
> 
>   Is it possible to copy the contents of /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-21.9/
>   to another location (something like /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-21.9-rt)
>   and apply the patch and compile there, or is it better just to patch
>   the suse source directly, accessing it via the /usr/src/linux symlink?
> 
>   Also I noticed there's a directory called /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-21.9-obj
> 
>   Do patches automatically change the kernel identifier so that when I do
>   a make modules_install it will create a new directory instead of copying
>   them over the modules from the running kernel?  Is there a way to make
>   sure it does?
> 
>   Is it OK to manually copy the vmlinuz and system.map file into /boot
>   with a name appropriate to the kernel version?
> 
>   Is it good practice to reference kernels directly in the GRUB menu.lst
>   by their real names rather than the symlink (when presenting the option
>   to boot more then one)?
> 
> I'm really sorry for the basic questions - I'm still a relative newbie to 
> Linux. I've thought about trying out a dedicated multimedia distro, but 
> really comfortable with SuSE now.
> 
> Thanks in advance

I googled for "suse compile custom kernel", which returned some useful
info, especially this one:
http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.php?showtopic=13704
-- 
Frode Haugsgjerd
Norway