jago25_98 wrote:
Is there a program that can look at my hardware and aid selecting some kernel build options?
Nope. People have been asking for this for years, but no one is willing to create it. The problem is that it needs to be tied to the kernel itself, because you need to create a way to map kernel options to hardware configuration.
For example, you could assign a PCI vendor/device ID to each device driver configuration. That would do about 90% of what you want. However, that would mean that as new device drivers are added, the mapping table would need to be updated accordingly. In other words, you'd be creating more work for everyone, and that still doesn't take care of the remaining 10% of the configuration. The end result is that such a feature would need to be tested and approved by the kernel developers before it was accepted.
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