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Re-building a RHEL 5 kernel for Power

Published in digg.com - 110 d 20 h ago    



We are often asked to build a RHEL 5 kernel (e.g., RHEL 5.2) on Power systems for evaluating a new kernel patch or investigating a performance issue. It is actually fairly easy to build the distro kernel if you are careful with the details.Here we will present the simple steps for re-building the ppc64 RHEL 5.2 kernel as delivered by the distro.