Since the kernel sources are too big to download just to package its headers,
this repository serves the purpose of being a small repository where the headers
are extracted. This also eliminates the requirement of rsync, which is used
by the Linux kernel Makefile to install the headers.
To install the headers run the following:
make ARCH=$arch PREFIX=/usr install
This repository also provides the headers for the latest longterm support kernel
under the branch lts, and tagged releases are made for each release. Only the
latest LTS version series are supported.
Adding a new arch
Supported arches are x86, arm, arm64, powerpc, and openrisc. If you
want to add a new arch edit the tools/install-headers script to include your
architecture, and run the following on the repository root:
./tools/install-headers /path/to/kernel/tree
This will install the headers for the new arch to the include directory, and
store architecture specific headers on include/asm-$ARCH.
Copying
The tools specific to this repository (i.e Makefile, tools/) are all on the
public domain. I don't make any copyright claims on the header artifacts
extracted from the Linux kernel, which is provided under GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note.