Some suggestions for the LFS book, for your consideration. Let me know if another list is more appropriate for this.
BTW: Just finished LFS--very impressed with the the book's care & attention to detail. 1. Useful free download: I think it would be very worthwhile to provide a link to this in the text, or in the Kernel Configuration Hint by Bruce Dubbs (which was also useful--thanks, Bruce!). Helped me a lot to configure my (first) kernel, especially chapters 7 & 8: http://it-ebooks.info/book/972/ Linux kernel in a nutshell by kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman (also available on Greg's site: http://www.kroah.com/lkn/) Some kernel options have changed, but it's still a great guide. 2. Good to know about, especially for a beginner like me, from Arch Wiki. This is different from 'oldconfig'. They say: "localmodconfig: Since kernel 2.6.32, this should only select those options which are currently being used. Plug in all devices that you expect to use on the system. In your source directory run: $ make localmodconfig The resulting configuration file will be written to .config. Then you can build and install as normal." (Although I actually used make menuconfig, I first did the 'localmodconfig' & saved the config file to refer to during the process) 3. Also from the Arch Wiki, regarding when an initramfs is not being used. Most of the points are in the LFS book or Bruce's hint, but I couldn't find mention of support for AUTOFS4_FS or TMPFS (different from DEVTMPFS_MOUNT, which is mentioned). Should these be mentioned? They say: "Ensure that all your modules required for video/input/disks/fs are compiled into the kernel. As well as support for DEVTMPFS_MOUNT, TMPFS, AUTOFS4_FS at the very least." 4. One other free download--maybe not relevant enough to reference in the book, but the Chapter 4 discussion of toolchains in this book gave me additional perspective on the techniques used in LFS. They mention CLFS very favorably too, but spend more time talking about automating the process: http://it-ebooks.info/book/211/ Building embedded Linux systems, Yaghmour et al. Thanks for all your work!! Bernie T. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
