Comment 3 for bug 1270889

I examined the centos5 spec for netfpga from the links you specified above. Looks like provided packages build kernel module on-fly during "netfpga-kernel" package installation. I'm pretty sure that these scripts will work on ubuntu (especially the grub configuration part) without an additional work.

There are also numerous issues related to proprer packaging for Ubuntu, described here http://web.archive.org/web/20101127153722/http://netfpga.org/foswiki/bin/view/NetFPGA/OneGig/UbuntuCompatibility

I would advise against building netfpga packages for ubuntu, as the second approach described by Vladimir looks way more easy.