On 11/27/2012 06:06 PM, Brian West issued this missive:
On 11/27/2012 07:44 PM, JD wrote:
Hi Bruno, Alan,
The rpmbuild interface does not provide the user a way
to go through the entire config options before proceeding
to build the kernel. If it does, I would really like to know
how it's done.
The current rpmbuild of the kernel builds bazillions of
drivers, most of which are very likely not needed by
the user's platform. This leads to an extremely time
consuming default build, and in my case, I have only
one machine which is a unicore.
Other problems are features that a user might neither
want nor need.
Is there a way to propagate this issue to development leads?
Thanx.
i second that this would be nice so that we can tailor our kernels to
our config and not have unrequired drivers.
rpmbuild's "-ba" option is there to create full binary and source
kernel RPMs. By definition, most modules will be built because that's
how the kernel is distributed. If you want to limit what gets built,
you have to change the build's config file. There's nothing mysterious
about it and the process hasn't changed in at least four years.
Start using the "-bp" option to rpmbuild. After that, go into your
~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-xxx/linux-xxx directory, run "make nconfig",
bugger the config there, save it and do the normal kernel make/make
install operations. Check the README file in that directory for options
on how to configure and how to compile.
Really, it's been like this for a LONG time.
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