Compiling a kernel on debian is easy. Kernel 3.3 came out today, and here's how to build it for debian testing:
sudo apt-get install kernel-package fakeroot
wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.3.tar.bz2
tar -xvf linux-3.3.tar.bz2
cd linux-3.3/
cat /boot/config-`uname -r`>.config
make oldconfig
EDIT: 3.3.1 is here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.3.1.tar.bz2 -- the build instructions are the same
EDIT 2: This has been tried with 3.3.4 as well. All is fine.
EDIT 3: And it's fine with 3.3.5
You'll also be asked about the new inclusions in the kernel. You can pick the default if you don't know - Yes means to compile into the kernel, m mean to provide as a module and no means don't support. Some drivers are better provided as modules -- see e.g. http://justlinux.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-127876.html
"Some things obviously have to be compiled into the kernel - file system support for your / filesys, stuff like that. Most everything else can be modules, if you desire." and "f you hot-swap different usb peripherals then I would recommend compiling those drivers as modules". Same goes for network drivers.
You can also look up the different options here: http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/.
Seems like there's a lot of network and touch/screen drivers. And the fabled android drivers are available now:
make-kpkg clean
fakeroot make-kpkg -j7 --initrd --revision=3.3.0 --append-to-version=amd64 kernel_image kernel_headers
The build takes a LONG time. Once it's done:
mv ../linux*3.3.0*.deb .
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
Done.
Linux tantalum 3.3.0-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 20 06:29:46 EST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
sudo apt-get install kernel-package fakeroot
wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.3.tar.bz2
tar -xvf linux-3.3.tar.bz2
cd linux-3.3/
cat /boot/config-`uname -r`>.config
make oldconfig
EDIT: 3.3.1 is here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.3.1.tar.bz2 -- the build instructions are the same
EDIT 2: This has been tried with 3.3.4 as well. All is fine.
EDIT 3: And it's fine with 3.3.5
You'll also be asked about the new inclusions in the kernel. You can pick the default if you don't know - Yes means to compile into the kernel, m mean to provide as a module and no means don't support. Some drivers are better provided as modules -- see e.g. http://justlinux.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-127876.html
"Some things obviously have to be compiled into the kernel - file system support for your / filesys, stuff like that. Most everything else can be modules, if you desire." and "f you hot-swap different usb peripherals then I would recommend compiling those drivers as modules". Same goes for network drivers.
You can also look up the different options here: http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/.
Seems like there's a lot of network and touch/screen drivers. And the fabled android drivers are available now:
Make audit loginuid immutable (AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE) [N/y/?] (NEW) YesContinuing,
Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting (EXPERIMENTAL) (CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM) [N/y/?] (NEW) No
EFI stub support (EFI_STUB) [N/y/?] (NEW) No
UNIX: socket monitoring interface (UNIX_DIAG) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) m
UDP: socket monitoring interface (INET_UDP_DIAG) [N/m/?] (NEW) m
Netfilter NFACCT over NFNETLINK interface (NETFILTER_NETLINK_ACCT) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) m
Supply CT list in procfs (OBSOLETE) (NF_CONNTRACK_PROCFS) [Y/n/?] (NEW) Yes
"nfacct" match support (NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_NFACCT) [N/m/?] (NEW) No
IPVS source hashing table size (the Nth power of 2) (IP_VS_SH_TAB_BITS) [8] (NEW)
"rpfilter" reverse path filter match support (IP_NF_MATCH_RPFILTER) [N/m/?] (NEW) No
"rpfilter" reverse path filter match support (IP6_NF_MATCH_RPFILTER) [N/m/?] (NEW) No
Open vSwitch (OPENVSWITCH) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) No
Network priority cgroup (NETPRIO_CGROUP) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) m
ISA Bus based legacy SJA1000 driver (CAN_SJA1000_ISA) [N/m/?] (NEW) No
Bosch CC770 and Intel AN82527 devices (CAN_CC770) [N/m] (NEW) No
NFC LLCP support (EXPERIMENTAL) (NFC_LLCP) [N/y/?] (NEW) No
Block Device Driver for Micron PCIe SSDs (BLK_DEV_PCIESSD_MTIP32XX) [N/m/?] (NEW) No
NVM Express block device (BLK_DEV_NVME) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) No
Ethernet team driver support (EXPERIMENTAL) (NET_TEAM) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) Yes
Calxeda 1G/10G XGMAC Ethernet driver (NET_CALXEDA_XGMAC) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) No
Micrel KS8995MA 5-ports 10/100 managed Ethernet switch (MICREL_KS8995MA) [N/m/y] (NEW) No
Atheros ath9k bluetooth coexistence support (ATH9K_BTCOEX_SUPPORT) [Y/n/?] (NEW) Yes
Hardware support that overlaps with the brcmsmac driver (B43_BCMA_EXTRA) [Y/n] (NEW) Yes
Broadcom IEEE802.11n PCIe SoftMAC WLAN driver (BRCMSMAC) [N/m/?] (NEW) No
iwlwifi experimental P2P support (IWLWIFI_P2P) [N/y/?] (NEW) No
Enable full debugging output in iwlegacy (iwl 3945/4965) drivers (IWLEGACY_DEBUG) [N/y/?] (NEW) No
TCA8418 Keypad Support (KEYBOARD_TCA8418) [N/m/?] (NEW) No
AUO in-cell touchscreen using Pixcir ICs (TOUCHSCREEN_AUO_PIXCIR) [N/m/?] (NEW) No
EETI eGalax multi-touch panel support (TOUCHSCREEN_EGALAX) [N/m/?] (NEW) No
PIXCIR I2C touchscreens (TOUCHSCREEN_PIXCIR) [N/m/?] (NEW) No
Sharp GP2AP002A00F I2C Proximity/Opto sensor driver (INPUT_GP2A) [N/m/?] (NEW) No
Polled GPIO tilt switch (INPUT_GPIO_TILT_POLLED) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) No
SBS Compliant gas gauge (BATTERY_SBS) [N/m/?] (NEW) No
National Semiconductor LP8727 charger driver (CHARGER_LP8727) [N/m/?] (NEW) No
Battery charger manager for multiple chargers (CHARGER_MANAGER) [N/y/?] (NEW) No?
VIA Watchdog Timer (VIA_WDT) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) No
Support STMicroelectronics STMPE (MFD_STMPE) [N/y/?] (NEW) No
Support Dialog Semiconductor DA9052/53 PMIC variants with SPI (MFD_DA9052_SPI) [N/y/?] (NEW) No
Enable IR raw decoder for the Sanyo protocol (IR_SANYO_DECODER) [M/n/?] (NEW) No
JL2005B/C/D USB V4L2 driver (USB_GSPCA_JL2005BCD) [N/m/?] (NEW) m
V4L PCI(e) devices (V4L_PCI_DRIVERS) [Y/n/?] (NEW) Yes
V4L ISA and parallel port devices (V4L_ISA_PARPORT_DRIVERS) [N/y/?] (NEW) No
V4L platform devices (V4L_PLATFORM_DRIVERS) [N/y/?] (NEW) No
Intel GMA5/600 KMS Framebuffer (DRM_GMA500) [N/m/?] (NEW) No
Roccat Isku keyboard support (HID_ROCCAT_ISKU) [N/m/?] (NEW) No
Microsoft Hyper-V mouse driver (HID_HYPERV_MOUSE) [N/m/?] (NEW) No
EHCI support for Marvell on-chip controller (USB_EHCI_MV) [N/y/?] (NEW) No
Inventra Highspeed Dual Role Controller (TI, ADI, ...) (USB_MUSB_HDRC) [N/m/?] (NEW) No
Marvell USB2.0 Device Controller (USB_MV_UDC) [N/m/?] (NEW) No
LED Support for TCA6507 I2C chip (LEDS_TCA6507) [N/m/?] (NEW) No
LED support for the Bachmann OT200 (LEDS_OT200) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) No
InfiniBand SCSI RDMA Protocol target support (INFINIBAND_SRPT) [N/m/?] (NEW) No
Support for rtllib wireless devices (RTLLIB) [N/m/?] (NEW)
Android Drivers (ANDROID) [N/y/?] (NEW) No
Fujitsu Tablet Extras (FUJITSU_TABLET) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) No
Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo rfkill support (AMILO_RFKILL) [N/m/?] (NEW) No
AMD IOMMU Version 2 driver (EXPERIMENTAL) (AMD_IOMMU_V2) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) No
Btrfs with integrity check tool compiled in (DANGEROUS) (BTRFS_FS_CHECK_INTEGRITY) [N/y/?] (NEW) No
NFS server manual fault injection (NFSD_FAULT_INJECTION) [N/y/?] (NEW) No
Kernel memory leak detector (DEBUG_KMEMLEAK) [N/y/?] (NEW) No
NMI Selftest (DEBUG_NMI_SELFTEST) [N/y/?] (NEW) No
Serpent cipher algorithm (x86_64/SSE2) (CRYPTO_SERPENT_SSE2_X86_64) [N/m/y/?] (NEW)
No
make-kpkg clean
fakeroot make-kpkg -j7 --initrd --revision=3.3.0 --append-to-version=amd64 kernel_image kernel_headers
The build takes a LONG time. Once it's done:
mv ../linux*3.3.0*.deb .
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
Done.
Linux tantalum 3.3.0-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 20 06:29:46 EST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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