Inlining...
Justin Patrin wrote:
On Apr 11, 2005 12:58 PM, Robert G. Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:<snip>
<snip> If you go the make 'config route, *do* by all means read all the help you can find in there before changing thins; you cwill probably find something that interacts with something else that you've already done that makes "what you've already done" irrelevant or -wrong-, so read all through the [deleted] thing before making changes. Itsa drag, yeah, but it does make things like kernels more safely.
We both know its gotta be in there somewhere, right? Followed by the inevitable compile, if you _do_ find something.
<snip> I recommend using genkernel for creating a kernel. You still have to deal with configuring yourself, but then Gentoo deals with the compile and moving the kernel around and such.
I was warned off of genkernel by several people, who were saying that genkernel does things to the kernel config, and that its basic purpose is to make a kernel that will run on anything just like the CD-kernel does. This, if true, could be part of why Gentoo is slower -- it can't really optimize anything since it has to run everything, including 'crippled' hardware. The compiler switches are what control this, and the CD kernel can't have "the right" ones set. Genkernel, per the above, can't either.
If by chance you know about genkernel things that contradict what I was told, please enlighten me!
Best, rgh.
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