[clue-announce] Kernel Customization

[Charles Hutchinson]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Kevin Fries <kfries at cctus.com> wrote:

> For those of you on both lists, sorry for the cross post, but this is an
> esoteric enough question, I need to broaden my net if I ever want to have a
> chance of finding the answer.
>
> Doe anyone know if there is a way to have the kernel dump its currently
> running configuration in a way that I can pump that into a kernel compile to
> have the kernel support all the equipment on my current machine, and only
> the parts of my current machine?
>
> I want a kernel compile that is the smallest possible kernel without
> breaking anything that is installed and configured for my current machine.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Thxs
>


In SuSE there was a "make cloneconfig" command you could use in the kernel
source tree provided from their package repositories.  I have not seen
anything similar in Ubuntu but I have not had to do any compiles of the the
kernel nor drivers against the kernel in Ubuntu.

Charlie


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