[64studio-devel] Kompiling kustom kernel under 64Studio

[J. Grant Boling]

Hello Everyone,

I've really been impressed with how well 64Studio does pro audio. 
Thanks for all of your hard work!

I'm going to be building a rackmounted cpu to carry around in my PA rig, 
and I'm planning to put 64Studio on a compact flash drive to avoid 
having to worry about head crashes.  I will be recording to an external 
firewire drive, just booting from an internal CF drive.

So I'd like to compile a custom kernel to make it as lean as possible 
while retaining all of the capabilities I need.  Plus I like having the 
geek cred of running a custom compiled kernel :)..

I've compiled a bunch of kernels on Slackware and Gentoo, but every time 
I try to compile under a Debian flavor I run into dependency problems 
which I don't know how to fix, and I haven't been able to find 
documentation specific enough to 64Studio to successfully do it.  I 
don't really want to dedicate another box solely to Debian development 
(I'm an engineer, not a programmer), I'd prefer to use the Athlon64 on 
which I've already installed 64Studio to compile.

So, if someone who knows the differences between compiling a kernel 
under Slack and 64Studio would kindly post them - plus a list of the 
required dependencies and a little about applying appropriate kernel 
patches I would be grateful.  Once I do it a few times I'll be happy to 
write up a howto and post it to the site for everyone else to use.

Thanks again!
Grant