Глава 10. Debian и ядро

Да.

There's only one common catch: the Debian C libraries are built with the most recent stable releases of the kernel headers. If you happen to need to compile a program with kernel headers newer than the ones from the stable branch, then you should either upgrade the package containing the headers (linux-libc-dev), or use the new headers from an unpacked tree of the newer kernel. That is, if the kernel sources are in /usr/src/linux, then you should add -I/usr/src/linux/include/ to your command line when compiling.

Users who wish to (or must) build a custom kernel are encouraged to use the Debian package target included with recent versions of the kernel build system. After configuring the kernel, simply run the following command:

make deb-pkg

The new kernel package will be created in the directory one level above the kernel source tree, and it may be installed using dpkg -i.

Пользователи должны отдельно скачивать последнюю версию исходного кода ядра (или нужную им версию ядра) со своего любимого Linux-архива, если у них нет пакета linux-source-версия (где версия означает версию ядра).

A configuration file containing modules to be manually loaded at boot time is kept at /etc/modules. However, editing this file is rarely needed.

Other module configuration is kept in the /etc/modprobe.d/ directory. More information about the format of those files can be found in the modprobe.conf(5) manual page.

Да. Сценарий linux-image-NNN.prerm проверяет, не пытаетесь ли вы удалить работающее ядро. Поэтому вы можете удалить ненужные пакеты с образами ядра командой:

dpkg --purge linux-image-NNN

(NNN, конечно же, нужно заменить на правильный номер версии и редакции ядра)

Further information is maintained in the Debian Linux Kernel Handbook.