> ... the point is, that with pre-compiled kernels, AfAIK, I'll have a lot > of non-modular capabilities built-in to the kernel, thus wasting RAM (and > speed?) that otherwise could be used for stuff I really need on the > machine. > > So compiling myself is option #1 (I'm definitely not keen on extra-work at > this beautiful summer here ... :) > If it will not work, I'll probably use the options from kernel .configs I > found on www ... But most of the time I'm not a friend of copying without > understanding. > That's why I came here ... :)
Fair enough. For a .config, start with the one that came with the Debian kernel you're using. It's in /boot/config-2.4.21-powerpc (or whatever version number). Then you can take out other options that you don't need. Frank
