From 233caa0d3ef5c95320a4ee90b307f145a82f5e9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mahdi Dibaiee <mdibaiee@pm.me>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 02:12:32 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] improve linux build scripts

---
 _posts/2021-11-06-linux-contribution.md | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/_posts/2021-11-06-linux-contribution.md b/_posts/2021-11-06-linux-contribution.md
index 3b0c0a6..2393c52 100644
--- a/_posts/2021-11-06-linux-contribution.md
+++ b/_posts/2021-11-06-linux-contribution.md
@@ -39,16 +39,17 @@ pacman -S flex base-devel xmlto kmod inetutils bc libelf git cpio perl tar xz
 {% highlight bash %}
 zcat /proc/config.gz > .config
 {% endhighlight %}
-- Make!
+- Make! The `-j8` parameter specifies the number of threads to be used by the build. My CPU has 8 threads and so I use it all.
 {% highlight bash %}
 make -j8
 {% endhighlight %}
-- Install the newly built Kernel
+- Install the newly built Kernel. I create this as a script file and run it after every build from the root of repository.
 {% highlight bash %}
-make modules_install
-VERSION=5.10
-cp -v arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-linux${VERSION}
-mkinitcpio -k $VERSION -g /boot/initramfs-linux${VERSION}.img
+make -j8 modules_install
+RELEASE=$(cat include/config/kernel.release)
+cp -v arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-linux${RELEASE}
+mkinitcpio -k $RELEASE -g /boot/initramfs-linux${RELEASE}.img
+mkinitcpio -k $RELEASE -s autodetect -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback${RELEASE}.img
 {% endhighlight %}
 - Run grub-mkconfig to add a menu option for this new kernel
 {% highlight bash %}