Russell Miller wrote:
3) One thing I would really, really like - and I'm half tempted to just
write it myself - is a tool to take the stock fedora kernel and build a
new one - with the options that *I* want. Building a new kernel is a
pain in the kiester, and the lack of a good tool to do so (I'm not aware
of one and a quick search on freshmeat doesn't turn one up) is kind
of... surprising, considering that the kernel has been around for so
many years. Is it that much of a black art?
It cannot be fully automatic unless you want to default lots
of options, then you might as well just use the default
kernel .config.
Here is a link to the kernel compile documentation for fedora.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel?highlight=(kernel)|(source)
And another link good for cross referencing
http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_fedora
But there is no reason there can't be a script that examines
all the hardware present on the system, and creates a
.config that reflects that. All those modules for sound
cards, network cards, etc go away. Well no reason other
than it would take a significant amount of work and require
continuous updates for all new hardware. :-)
Then the user runs menuconfig to choose the options that
they want.
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