Chapter 1 Introduction

1. Using this book

Chapter 2 Requirements for building and using the kernel

1. Tools to build the kernel

2. Tools to use the kernel

Chapter 3 Retrieving the kernel source

1. What tree to use

2. Where to find the kernel source

3. What to do with the source

Chapter 4 Configuring and Building

1. Creating a configuration

2. Modifying the configuration

3. Building the kernel

4. Advanced building options

Chapter 5 Installing and Booting From a Kernel

1. Using a Distribution's Installation Scripts

2. Installing By Hand

3. Modifying the Bootloader For the New Kernel

Chapter 6 Upgrading a kernel

1. Download the new source

2. Applying the patch

3. Reconfigure the kernel

4. Can't this be automated?

Chapter 7 Customizing a Kernel

1. Using a Distribution Kernel

2. Determining the Correct Module From Scratch

Chapter 8 Kernel Configuration Recipes

1. Disks

2. Devices

3. CPU

4. Networking

5. Filesystems

6. Security

7. Kernel debugging

Chapter 9 Kernel boot command-line parameter reference The majority of this chapter is based on the in-kernel documentation for the different kernel boot command line reference options, which were written by the kernel developers and released under the GPL.

1. Module-specific options

2. Console options

3. Interrupt options

4. Memory options

5. Suspend options

6. CPU options

7. Scheduler options

8. Ramdisk options

9. Root disk options

10. Init options

11. kexec options

12. RCU options

13. ACPI options

14. SCSI options

15. PCI options

16. PnP BIOS options

17. SELinux options

18. Network options

19. NFS options

20. Hardware specific options

21. Timer specific options

22. Miscellaneous options

Chapter 10 Kernel build command line reference

1. Informational Targets

2. Cleaning Targets

3. Configuration Targets

4. Build Targets

5. Packaging Targets

6. Documentation Targets

7. Architecture-Specific Targets

8. Analysis Targets

Chapter 11 Kernel Configuration Option Reference This chapter lists the most important configuration options offered when you run make config or one of its graphical interfaces. The majority of the chapter is based on the in-kernel documentation for the different kernel configuration options, which were written by the kernel developers and released under the GPL.

Chapter 12 Bibliography

1. Books

2. Tool locations