If you're asking about a general Linux kernel, you'd be better off finding a mailing list tailored to beginner distro development.
If you're asking about a specific device that you'd like to port Android to, it would be best to start with hardware known to be compatible. But it sounds like what you're asking is an even simpler question: what are the advantages of compiling your own kernel? This is much different than authoring your own extensions to the kernel, which will take quite a bit of knowledge about Linux and C. Compiling your own kernel has some advantages, but the main ones are being able to include features (e.g., hardware extensions) in the kernel without having to load them as modules. For most things these days, loading your own modules is sufficient. Kris On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 6:40 AM, Andybbop <andybedford2...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi all, apologies as this may be a post in completely the wrong place but if > you can send me in the right direction that would be help enough! > > I am starting to get into development and it would help my understanding a > lot as well as being a potential future project to know how I might go about > the following. If I had say an old netbook and wanted to turn this into a > media centre with all my music on and re code everything so that it > autobooted into a media player so it had only the functionality of reading > usb keys etc and playing back music, what would I need to be doing? > > Would I need to create my own kernel? Or would there be benefits such as > quicker boot times etc or security advantages to doing so? > Would I ultimately be looking to create my own linux distro and then add > packages to it that added a media player etc and then recode this to > autoboot and lock out other functionality like web browsing etc? > > Many thanks! > > -- > -- > unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Linux Kernel Development" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Linux Kernel Development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
