[clue-tech] localyesconfig

[Shawn Perry]

Seems is all that really matters.  Users can be shown the numbers that
X is faster than Y, but if Y SEEMS faster, people will like Y more.

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:52 AM, ErikZ <erik.zolan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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