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howtos:slackware_admin:cross_compiling_the_linux_kernel [2018/06/01 21:59 (UTC)] – [Cross-compiler] bifferoshowtos:slackware_admin:cross_compiling_the_linux_kernel [2018/06/01 22:23 (UTC)] – [Kernel preparation] bifferos
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 <code>Target options -> Target Architecture Variant (i486)</code> <code>Target options -> Target Architecture Variant (i486)</code>
  
-You can play around with many options like kernel version and glibc etc.. however for building the kernel itself none of these matter.  The only option that may conceivably make a difference is the GCC version, particularly if you are building a particularly old kernel version which doesn't support later versions of GCC.  For this we can just leave all defaults though.  Save the config and then:+You can play around with many options like kernel version and glibc etc.. however for building the kernel itself none of these matter.  The only option that may conceivably make a difference is the GCC version, particularly if you are building a particularly old kernel version which doesn't support later versions of GCC.  For this demonstration we can just leave all defaults though.  Save the config and then:
  
 <code>$ make</code> <code>$ make</code>
  
 +While that's running we'll configure the kernel so it's ready to compile.
 ==== Kernel preparation ==== ==== Kernel preparation ====
  
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 $ wget https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-14.2/kernels/hugesmp.s/config -O .config</code> $ wget https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-14.2/kernels/hugesmp.s/config -O .config</code>
  
-You should now have a .config in /usr/src/linux which says 'CONFIG_64BIT is not set' at the top.+You should now have a .config in /usr/src/linux which says 'CONFIG_64BIT is not set' at the top.  That will replace your old 64-bit kernel .config that you had before (included from the 'K' disk set).  Obviously copy the kernel someplace else if you wanted to keep that!
  
 ==== Kernel compilation ==== ==== Kernel compilation ====

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