Am 11.01.2013 07:28, schrieb Stroller: > I most always take the .config from a recent systemrescuecd and it > has always worked well for me. > > I change "processor type and features" and disable the initrd.
What to choose for a i7-2600 ... ? > There may be some stuff on a LiveCD based distro which is optimised > for running off an optical disk, so I guess a RedHat or Ubuntu > default .config might be better. Ah, ok, might be. I took one from gentoo as I assumed the config might fit the gentoo-sources better somehow (although I still don't know what patches are applied to vanilla-sources to get gentoo-sources ... I just thought the config might somehow make use of those changes). > These should provide everything you need to boot, and most everything > else as modules, which will be automatically loaded. IMO this is > pretty much optimal. > > The engineers at RedHat and Ubuntu know a heck of a lot more about > kernels than I do. One might be able to make one's kernel > milliseconds more efficient by tuning it by hand, but it will surely > take hours of tinkering to attain that. > > I do not believe you can properly understand the consequences of any > given kernel option merely by reading the one- or two-line > description in makeconfig's help. To *properly* customise a kernel > for oneself will take more research than that, I reckon. Yep. I don't look for those last milliseconds, I just want to get rid of some old stuff I might drag along for years already ... Thanks, Stefan
