Building TinyCore64 kernel 6.1.5 succesful (vmware booting)

[alphons]

Successfully builded the latest kernel 6.1.5 for tineycore64 13.1
Screenshot attached.

Testing extensions samba and openssh, all working.

[nick65go]

wow, congratulation! but why? when we will have it soon, see the kernel + modules from:
https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/tinycorelinux/14.x/x86_64/release/src/kernel/config-6.1.2-tinycore64

[alphons]

why?  I did not see any post of working on new kernel releases on this forum
You pointed out to the 14.x release, also that is not mentioned anywhere 
I think this is the first succesful running of tinycore64 kernel 6.1.5 to my knowledge.

I maintain/administer tinycore machines, all are running on intel esxi hosts.
In the process i always make the kernel/modules/rootfs as small as possible for my specific setup.
(hate docker, tinycore does a better job after all)
Was happy so see my first try on 6.1.5 compiling and running #1 version 

[alphons]

Managed to get 6.1.6 up and running.

I just published my (private) isobuilder on github.
Also included the used .config files for different kernels.

What it does is;

• getting the current TinyCore64 iso
• getting the new linux kernel sources (kernel.org)
• extracts iso
• compiles kernel
• compiles modules
• installs new kernel and modules
• creates new iso

This is only for the people who know what thet are doing ... 
The used .config files are made minimal for my use, they contain a few modules, mostly externel kernel and for runnng in vmware/esxi
Best is to do the r option ( make menuconfig) and add all the stuff you need.

There are NO patches applied to the sources.

https://github.com/alphons/TinyCore/tree/main/src

cheers

[patrikg]

Thank you for getting involving to build our great Linux dist.
And also share your experiences with that and also share it via github.