2.7.2 Tools to build custom kernels
Users who wish to (or must) build a custom kernel are encouraged to download
the package kernel-package. This package contains the script to
build the kernel package, and provides the capability to create a Debian
kernel-image package just by running the command
# make-kpkg kernel_image
in the top-level kernel source directory. Help is available by executing the
command
# make-kpkg --help
and through the manual page make-kpkg(8) and The Linux kernel under Debian, Chapter 7.
Users must separately download the source code for the most recent kernel (or
the kernel of their choice) from their favorite Linux archive site, unless a
kernel-source-version package is available (where version
stands for the kernel version). The Debian initrd boot script
requires a special kernel patch called initrd; see http://bugs.debian.org/149236.
Detailed instructions for using the kernel-package package are
given in the file /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz.
