building a kernel (with a twist)

zigga15 · #1 (**permalink**) 02-11-2009

Hey all,

I am working on a static analysis tool and I wan't to see if it can find bugs in the linux kernel, it uses LLVM framework to analyse the instructions.

Long story short I need to build the kernel with a custom compiler. The compiler will create byte code files where binaries usually are (as well as the binaries), if I could have a single folder full of all the byte codes files that would be awesome.

I am running ubuntu 8 on a virtual box, I am a little stuck as to how I proceed.

So far I have gotten the kernel source code but I need to know how to build it. Usually I point CC and CXX env variables at the custom compiler when I am testing apps and run the configure and Makefile scripts.

If anyone has a link as to how to get started or can give me some advise that would be great. Cheers,

~ Dan

FYI - naturally if I find any bugs I will report them, all found bugs will be manually verified

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