[clue-tech] localyesconfig

[ErikZ]

I'm not a Gentoo user, but I know about it. With all the tweaking you
can do with Gentoo, shouldn't there be a way to measure speed? "It
seems to boot faster." is a horrible metric.

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Jason Ash <wizardofki at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently downloaded kernel 2.6.32.7 from kernel.org for my Gentoo
> box. Starting with kernel 2.6.32, they have a new feature that allows
> you automatically configure it to the hardware on your computer. The
> two variations are localmodconfig which makes modules for your
> hardware drivers, and localyesconfig, which builds it directly into
> the kernel. I chose the latter which resulted in very few modules and
> a much larger vmlinuz image. I also double-checked it with menuconfig,
> and it got everything right except for drivers for my ATI radeon card,
> and I chose to build support for ext4 file systems although I still
> use ext3. I seems to boot faster. I wonder if the same can be done
> with Ubuntu although it seems to have Ubuntu-specific stuff it its
> kernel. Also, the current 9.10 kernel is only version 2.6.31 which
> doesn't have this configuration feature yet. So, I guess I'll wait to
> try it. This is neat because it helps configure the kernel specific to
> the box it's on and gets rid of some bloat and unneeded drivers.
>
> Jason
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