How to Build a PREEMPT_RTkernel

Install required toolsand package

For ubuntu 12.04 LTS, before start to compile Linux Kernel, Thehost machine needs to install the following packages:

sudo apt-get installgawk wget git-core diffstat unzip texinfo build-essential chrpath libsdl1.2-devxterm libncurses5 libncurses5-dev

Download Linux Kerneland patch package

Go to www.kernel.org and download a mainline kernel and the RTpatch file. Move the document to the place where kernel are created

 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt

sudo mv linux-3.8.13tar.bz2/usr/src

sudo mv patch-3.8.13-rt14.patch.bz/usr/src/

cd /usr/src/
sudo tar xvjf linux-3.8.tar.bz2
sudo cd linux-3.8.13

sudo patch –p1 <<(bunzip2 –c ../patch-3.8.13-rt14.patch.bz2)

Configure the kernel

If you wish to re-use the configuration of yourcurrently-running kernel, start with this command

cd /usr/src/linux-3.8.13

sudo cp -vi/boot/config-`uname -r` .config

sudo make menuconfig

Customize the build and kernel options。

 

 

 

 

Build the kernel

You can enable parallel make use make –j*.  –j6 denotes that compilation is done spawning6 threads

sudo make –j4

sudo makemodules_install

sudo make install

Update grub

1.      For Ubuntu, we can use the automatic method toupdate the grub

After execute below command, just rebootand the new kernel should automatically load.

sudo update-grub

2.      For other version of Linux, maybe you need to editthe grub file manually.

/boot/grub/grub.cfg or  /etc/default/grub

Reboot