I think that "make allmodconfig" is the same but more easy

El 03/10/2014 01:59, "Stroller" <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> escribió:
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> 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.
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> I usually boot a recent liveCD - e.g. the most recent systemrescuecd -
and copy its /proc/config.gz to a textfile.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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