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
mailing lists and freshmeat to chapter09/whatnow.xml. Fixes bug 1583. Thanks
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>
situations. See the <filename>README</filename> file for more
information.</para>
<note><para>When configuring the kernel, be sure to enable the <quote>Support
for hot-pluggable devices</quote> option under the <quote>General Setup</quote>
menu. This enables hotplug events that are used by <command>udev</command> to
populate the <filename class="directory">/dev</filename> directory with device
nodes. Likewise, enable the <quote>Virtual memory file system support</quote>
option under the <quote>File systems</quote>/<quote>Pseudo filesystems</quote>
menu. This enables the virtual filesystem that the <filename
class="directory">/dev</filename> directory will be mounted on.</para></note>
<para>If desired, skip kernel configuration by copying the kernel
config file, <filename>.config</filename>, from the host system
(assuming it is available) to the unpacked <filename
@ -79,10 +70,12 @@ we do not recommend this option. It is often better to explore all the
configuration menus and create the kernel configuration from
scratch.</para>
<note><para>NPTL requires the kernel to be compiled with GCC 3.x, in
this case &gcc-version;. Compiling with 2.95.x is known to cause failures in
the glibc test suite, so it is not recommended to compile the kernel
with gcc 2.95.x.</para></note>
<note><para>NPTL requires the kernel to be compiled with GCC-3.x, in this case
&gcc-version;. Compiling with 2.95.x is known to cause failures in the Glibc
test suite, so it is not recommended to compile the kernel with gcc 2.95.x.
Normally, this wouldn't be mentioned as LFS doesn't build GCC-2.95.x.
Unfortunately, the kernel documentation is outdated and still claims GCC-2.95.3
is the recommended compiler.</para></note>
<para>Compile the kernel image and modules:</para>