Lee Revell wrote: > On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 18:46, Erik Steffl wrote: > >>>So, I am speaking more from my sysadmin background. Most Linux audio >>>users are more interested in intensively tweaking one box rather than >>>having to keep 100 of them just working. The requirements are very >>>different. >>> >>>A good compromise is compiling your own kernel from your vendor's >>>sources. Once you get it working, please post .rpms or .debs somewhere >>>for others to use, especially if you applied some patch to get a feature >>>that's not in the stock kernel. This is an excellent way for non-coders >>>to contribute a lot to the open source process. >> >> did you read my email? if you get debian source it creates configured >>package for you. there's no point in making it available because the >>whole point is to customize the kernel to your HW (which anybody can do, >>just as easily) >> > > > My main point was that removing things you don't need from the kernel > will not speed up your system. You don't need to remove anything to > customizing the kernel to your hardware, unless you just want it to > build faster and save a negligible amount of memory. All that needs to > be done to customize a kernel to a given hardware configuration is to > add the features that are missing from the stock kernel. This has the > added benefit that most people can install the .deb > and it will work. who's talking about removing? there's plenty of stuff to customize, picking the right drivers is part of it but e.g. you might want ext3 support not as module since you want to boot off of the ext3 disk, add support for chipset xxx (which is not default because it can cause problems if the chipset is not present) so that your machine does not freeze, you pick either acpi or apm or neither, you want the SATA disk to appear as SCSI disk (because when it appears as IDE disk your computer freezes) etc. not saying everybody should do it but if you know what HW you have (i.e. willing to read lables, output of lspci etc.) it's fairly easy to do, in some cases it might be a significant performance difference (e.g. if you are able to tweak it so that you can do DMA for HDs which might not be possible with distro built kernel) erik
