> However, if I start with the .config which workd, and "make xconfig" > and select "Supported processor types" under "Processor type and > features" and then unselect "Support Intel Pprocessors" (I have a > Ryzen) and save the config, it decreases the size of .config from 169K > to under 13K, losing almost every setting in the file. >
Checking my systems, .config is 131k (AMD system, so CONFIG_CPU_SUP_INTEL is not set) and an Intel system is 116k. Try following the same procedure using make menuconfig instead of make xconfig and see what happens.
