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Rewrote the NOTE section on kernel page.
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@ -107,6 +107,9 @@ First a summary, then a detailed log.</para>
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<listitem><para>July 9th, 2005 [archaic]: Rewrote kernel notes.
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<listitem><para>July 9th, 2005 [matt]: Added information regarding security
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mailing lists and freshmeat to chapter09/whatnow.xml. Fixes bug 1583. Thanks
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to Steve Crosby for the report and the suggested text.</para></listitem>
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@ -62,15 +62,6 @@ url="&blfs-root;view/svn/longindex.html#kernel-config-index"/>:</para>
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situations. See the <filename>README</filename> file for more
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information.</para>
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<note><para>When configuring the kernel, be sure to enable the <quote>Support
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for hot-pluggable devices</quote> option under the <quote>General Setup</quote>
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menu. This enables hotplug events that are used by <command>udev</command> to
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populate the <filename class="directory">/dev</filename> directory with device
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nodes. Likewise, enable the <quote>Virtual memory file system support</quote>
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option under the <quote>File systems</quote>/<quote>Pseudo filesystems</quote>
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menu. This enables the virtual filesystem that the <filename
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class="directory">/dev</filename> directory will be mounted on.</para></note>
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<para>If desired, skip kernel configuration by copying the kernel
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config file, <filename>.config</filename>, from the host system
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(assuming it is available) to the unpacked <filename
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@ -79,10 +70,12 @@ we do not recommend this option. It is often better to explore all the
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configuration menus and create the kernel configuration from
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scratch.</para>
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<note><para>NPTL requires the kernel to be compiled with GCC 3.x, in
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this case &gcc-version;. Compiling with 2.95.x is known to cause failures in
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the glibc test suite, so it is not recommended to compile the kernel
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with gcc 2.95.x.</para></note>
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<note><para>NPTL requires the kernel to be compiled with GCC-3.x, in this case
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&gcc-version;. Compiling with 2.95.x is known to cause failures in the Glibc
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test suite, so it is not recommended to compile the kernel with gcc 2.95.x.
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Normally, this wouldn't be mentioned as LFS doesn't build GCC-2.95.x.
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Unfortunately, the kernel documentation is outdated and still claims GCC-2.95.3
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is the recommended compiler.</para></note>
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<para>Compile the kernel image and modules:</para>
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