On 5 Jan 2008, at 16:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Configuring a new kernel is a dreaded task here. It seems I walk
through a bewildering array of stuff that when pressing F1 on them I
get more bewildering information I barely understand a word of.
For 8 or 9 yrs now I've mostly skirted the issue by using
defaults. ...
I'm not going to read all the details of all of the responses which
have appeared here already, so here's my take.
1) The people who configure the kernel options for commercial distros
are very experienced geeks.
2) I am unlikely to make sufficient performance savings by funroll-
looping my own kernel to justify the time I'll spend doing so.
Now I periodically grab a copy of the latest knoppix CD I can find -
I use these a lot, anyway - and take a copy the kernel .config from
there. Chances are the kernel I want to compile on my Gentoo system
is a little newer than the one from the Knoppix CD, so I run `make
oldconfig` and add in most everythign as modules. I take a couple of
minutes to look for my network card's driver in `make menuconfig` and
compile it in statically. This results in a kernel config which
surely supports all the hardware in my system. An awful lot of the
drivers & also additional drivers that I don't need compiled as
modules - perfect! If I need them they're loaded in dynamically at
boot time, if not they don't consume any system resources.
Stroller.
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