The LEAF Bering-uClibc is build from a patched kernel source and compressed afterwards to reduce space.

The list of patches and the order in which you should apply them are described in kernel.txt. This file is provided as well as the kernel .config here. The needed patches can be found in the patches cvs repository .

Now it's time to download a clean 2.4.24 kernel source from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/.

Add the kernel .config downloaded above, apply the patches as described in kernel.txt and follow the process explained there.

Build the kernel as usual:

make oldconfig; make dep; make bzImage; make modules

Finally, download upx-1.90 from: http://upx.sourceforge.net/#unstable and compress the kernel:

upx --best -f -o linux.upx arch/i386/boot/bzImage