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[Adam Hill <sidepipeuk@xxxxxxxxx>]

	Forgot to mention... apply the patch AFTER the git reset --hard and git 
clean -xdf commands, otherwise the files will be replaced with the originals 
again. Apply the patch cd'ed in to the source directory with something like:

bzcat adams-2.6.37-vaioz.patch.bz2 | patch -p1



> > Is it possible to get the source tree of this kernel to be able to
> > rebuild it while changing options ?
> 
> 	I've now put up a patch against the Ubuntu kernel tree in my files 
> directory ( its called adams-2.6.37-vaioz.patch.bz2 ) - note that work will 
> almost certainly be needed to make it apply to any other tree, though you 
may 
> have luck with 2.6.37 based ones.
> 
> 	There is a reasonable explanation of how to get and compile the Ubuntu 
> tree here:
> 
> http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2010/07/14/how-to-compile-a-ubuntu-2-6-35-
kernel-
> for-lucid/
> 
> 	You need to note a few things though:
> 
> - when you clone the repository use ubunti-natty rather than ubuntu-lucid. 
> When listing the tags you can just do git tag -l to find the correct branch, 
> but from memory it was something like Ubuntu-2.6.37-2.10 that I used.
> 
> - arch is amd64 ( well, if you want the 64 bit kernel ) so replace i386 with 
> that.
> 
> - replace all "debian.maverick" with "debian.master"
> 
> - There are a couple of abi files which it tells you to copy but you don't 
> need to ( they're not there any more )
> 
Adam.