How-to guides

These guides accompany through the various stages and building and publishing kernel packages and components.

Source code access and management

Get access to kernel source code if you need to modify the kernel for specific requirements, optimize the performance for selected hardware, inspect the source tree to build custom kernel modules, and more.

• Obtain kernel source for an Ubuntu release using Git

Development and customization

The steps to build a kernel is similar but may have slightly difference configuration requirements on different platforms and/or architectures.

• Build an Ubuntu Linux kernel

• Build an Ubuntu Linux kernel snap

Testing and verification

These guides relate to testing the kernel to ensure its stability and functionality before you push or release a patch.

• Test kernels in -proposed