I think that "make allmodconfig" is the same but more easy
El 03/10/2014 01:59, "Stroller" <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> escribió: > > > On Thu, 2 October 2014, at 4:15 am, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > > … > > In the past I've lost lots of time doing this: Getting the right > > drivers into the kernel build. > > ... > > I wondered if anyone can offer a `.config' for a very recent kernel or > > at least not ancient that they know will build a bootable (in the env > > mentinoed above) kernel. > > I usually boot a recent liveCD - e.g. the most recent systemrescuecd - and copy its /proc/config.gz to a textfile. > > With this approach, I don't think I've ever found the result lacking - the only thing you need to worry about is that drivers for your hard-drive controller and filesystem are compiled in statically. LiveCD kernels include driver modules for almost every eventuality, likely every component of your laptop. > > If you look at the current systemrescuecd it has a 3.14.x kernel (using the alternative options in the boot menu), and there are 3.14.x kernels in the portage tree. IMO that's a close enough match to start with. > > Stroller. > >