Teleidoscope

Wed, Oct 17, 2007

Kernel Makefiles

Posted at 10:58 pm MDT to Code

I'm looking at the makefiles and tools that are used to build the Linux kernel. Lovely stuff.

There's a small tweak to the format of the generated config files that was mentioned on the kernel mailing list. I'm going to try to implement it.

Even if someone else ends up doing it first, exploring the change gives me a goal in exploring the files. I find that new software is opaque unless I have something in particular that I'm looking for

And if no one else makes the change before I figure things out, maybe I'll be able to make my first contribution to Linux development.

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