Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
You're not the first person that said they use the CD's .config as a
starting point. Personally, I can't figure out why someone would do
that. The .config has a *lot* of stuff included on it; the kernel has
been patched three times to support reiser4, squashfs and unionfs; the
default .config builds all SCSI drivers it can directly into the kernel
and modularizes nearly everything else. In short, it's a pretty odd
starting place.
I think it's easy to think it might be a good starting point because
afterall - the system apparently just booted from it and seems to be
working. Like I said I think of it as temporary - just has to work long
enough to get the system booting on its own when it is more convenient
to fuss with things.
"make defconfig" might create a good config file (I'll have to try it),
but that doesn't help when you're setting up to do an ALFS build.
All I'm suggesting is maybe putting a config file on the CD someplace
and mentioning that it's there as a good starting point in the docs/readme.
Steve
IMHO, you'd get a much more "generic" and correct starting point if you
just ran 'make defconfig' inside the unpacked linux source. Try that, if
you don't mind, and let me know please just how well the resultant
.config file fits your PC.
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JH
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