[Linux-disciples] 2.6.7 kernel (fwd)

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

By the way, I would recommend menuconfig, but YMMV.


On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 06:06:09PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> Note that Adam expressed his preference for 'make
> menuconfig' in an earlier message. I have no choice but to
> conclude that Adam is in fact a very helpful bot.
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Adam Kessel <adam at rosi-kessel.org> -----
> 
> Subject: Re: [Linux-disciples] 2.6.7 kernel
> From: Adam Kessel <adam at rosi-kessel.org>
> To: Community of interest for free software support <linux-disciples at lists.bostoncoop.net>
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> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:12:03 -0400
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> On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 16:06, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> > > But you should just build your own, like other real men.
> > I'm just getting to this now. It's been a while since I've
> > rebuilt the kernel, and I was going to ask you guys whether
> > one could extract configuration information from a running
> > kernel, rather than having to keep the config info from the
> > kernel source laying around. Turns out that the IKCONFIG
> > does just that.
> 
> Yeah, but it's also always in /boot/config-`uname -r`, as I said in my
> last email.
> 
> > It also turns out that 'make xconfig' is much more
> > user-friendly than I remember it being. Neat neat neat.
> 
> I prefer make menuconfig, but to each his own.  
> 
> Also note make oldconfig, which only prompts you for questions which are
> new since the last config was made.
> 
> > /*
> > Kernel .config support (IKCONFIG)
> > 
> > This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
> > contents, information on compiler used to build the kernel,
> > kernel running when this kernel was built and kernel version
> > from Makefile to be saved in the kernel. It provides
> > documentation of which kernel options are used in a running
> > kernel or in an on-disk kernel. This information can be
> > extracted from the kernel image file with the script
> > scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as input to rebuild the
> > current kernel or to build another kernel. It can also be
> > extracted from a running kernel by reading /proc/config.gz
> > and /proc/config_built_with, if enabled (below).
> > /proc/config.gz will list the configuration that was used
> > to build the kernel and /proc/config_built_with will list
> > information on the compiler and host machine that was used
> > to build the kernel.
> > */
> -- 
> Adam Kessel
> http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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