On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:41:22 -0500 Rob Landley wrote: > On Thursday 20 September 2007 12:10:50 pm Tim Bird wrote: > > Andy Whitcroft wrote: > > > Knowing nothing about these options, from a test perspective it would > > > be nice if we were able to simply enable "the lot" so we can do "normal" > > > -mm runs and "tiny" -mm runs without any manual intervention? > > > > I agree completely. > > > > I have been thinking for a while about how to make a "monster switch" > > (the kind they always seem to have in Frankenstein movies) that > > switches a whole bunch of settings at once. We currently have methods > > in the kernel for: > > * default (or recommended) config for a particular platform > > * all yes - to build as much as possible > > * all no - to build as little as possible > > > > The problem with "allno" is that it rarely produces a usable > > kernel. > > Beyond that, allno doesn't come close to switching everything off. > > 1) You have to _enable_ CONFIG_EMBEDDED in order to go into that menu and > switch _off_ the stuff in there. > > 2) The stuff CONFIG_EMBEDDED reveals isn't all in that menu. CONFIG_BLOCK is > at the top level menu. CONFIG_VT and CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS are buried down > under device drivers->character devices, and there's more sprinkled all over. > > You have to track it all down and switch it off to get an _actual_ > allnoconfig kernel. > > (I cut the bit where you reinvent miniconfig. People keep doing this. I dig
I noticed that too. > it up and resubmit it every year or so, so Roman Zippel can shoot it down > again. Meanwhile, not only is Firmware Linux happily using it, but I even > wrote more documentation at > http://landley.net/code/firmware/new_platform.html although you have to > scroll down a bit to get to the stuff about miniconfig...) I use it for daily build/boot/run-some-number-like-30-tests kernel testing. --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
