How-to guides

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

Source code access and management

You can get access to kernel source code via apt or directly from the kernel Git repositories. You can also check the formatting requirements, review process, and best practices for submitting kernel patches to the Ubuntu kernel team mailing list.

• Enable kernel source package repositories

• Obtain kernel source for an Ubuntu release using Git

• Send patches to the mailing-list

Development and customization

The steps to build a kernel is similar but may have slightly difference configuration requirements on depending on the build package (snap, debs), platform 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