Linux Kernel Compilation

 Step 1: Install Required Packages

Install additional packages before building a kernel. To do so, run this command:

sudo apt-get install git fakeroot build-essential ncurses-dev xz-utils libssl-dev bc flex libelf-dev bison


Step 2:

Download the Kernel source code from kernel.org, Extract the tar file

Install linux-headers for the base kernel version use following command to know the base kernel version 'uname -a'


Step3 :


Goto the Extracted directory/folder

run following command

make menuconfig


then save the configurationg and click exit


Step 4 :


Run the following command for compiling kernel

make

Step 5 :

Install kernel modules and kernel

make modules_install
make install

 

Step 6:

 

If amd based CPU in the machine

  sudo apt-get install firmware-amd-graphics