This repository contains the scripts and patches to build the kernel for SONiC. SONiC uses the same kernel for all platforms. We prefer to out-of-tree kernel platform modules. We accept kernel patches on following conditions:
- Existing kernel modules need to be enabled.
- Existing kernel modules need to be patched and those patches are available in upstream.
- Please include the original upstream commit id and message in the patch. This allows the maintainer to remove upstream patches during the kernel upgrade.
- New kernel modules which are common to all platforms.
- Platform specific kernel modules which are impossible or very difficul to be built out of kernel tree.
Platform specific kernel modules are expected to develop out-of-tree kernel modules, provide them in debian packages to be embeded into SONiC ONE image and installed on their platforms.
For all patches, please ensure you have run the patch with checkpatch.pl and pass it.
Usage:
make DEST=<destination path>
If DEST is not set, package will stay in current directory.