Re: kernel build question

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On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Le Mon, 8 Sep 2008 17:59:53 +0530,
> "umesh b" <umesh.kollam@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
>> I am using a custom kernel (2.6.25.6) on a Thinkpad R61i. Why i have
>> asked this question is it took me several builds to come up with a
>> working kernel which take care of most of the THinkapd resources like
>> PCI sound, USB, intel video, PCI express etc. Is it possible to have a
>> probe script that can give a list of devices connected? lspci etc are
>> very generic and too much info. If some info is available analogous to
>> the Kernel options shown during Xconfig, that would help. Am i making
>> any sense at all?
>
> In /boot, you usually have a file named config-<kernelversion> that
> contains the configuration of the kernel. You can use it to compile a
> newer kernel version (I usually copy this file to .config in the new
> kernel source tree, and run make oldconfig).
>
But how to do it the very first time? Once the config is complete, i
think this is what would be the best way.


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