From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBSu4-0004Wn-SP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:38:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BBC31E0126; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 10:38:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B59DE0123 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 10:38:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDD59566A1; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 05:38:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:38:22 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: Ff/ar+qO+inc8OVV6k/X4JaCok5NLU17fc8bXppCqnrD 1199615902 Received: from [192.168.2.2] (dslb-088-072-134-124.pools.arcor-ip.net [88.72.134.124]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30D68B32B for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 05:38:22 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A pared down kernel config From: Florian Philipp To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200801051906.28920.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> References: <87r6gwxnpu.fsf@newsguy.com> <200801051906.28920.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-9mBADfADhjGFF7UJ3R3A" Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:38:19 +0100 Message-Id: <1199615900.6048.29.camel@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 X-Archives-Salt: 2efc2038-98f3-4e7f-85f6-3ead530cbb27 X-Archives-Hash: 4a9c92aae0f1e1ee0e3a12340cb045d7 --=-9mBADfADhjGFF7UJ3R3A Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 19:06 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > trial-and-error is probably your best bet. Get it working with a full=20 > genkernel setup. Note which modules get used in real life, start=20 > removing them in batches and make notes when stuff breaks >=20 > There's a reason for the existence of genkernel - it's so that you don't=20 > have to go through all this pain and suffering, and can instead remove=20 > stuff a bit at a time with reasonable confidence it won;t blow up in=20 > your face :-) >=20 There is a fairly easy trick to get rid of pointless options like unused drivers even if you are not sure about your hardware or the kernel options themselves:=20 Compile them as modules, then boot the new kernel. If the modules don't get loaded (lsmod is your friend) and everything works fine, throw them out of your configuration. --=-9mBADfADhjGFF7UJ3R3A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHgK+bqs4uOUlOuU8RAoCeAJ9bnMGYRxXYriEMIiCkX9O5IGL2BACeKZK1 5gVgx8CotZm1JEIxItvWyK8= =0qcU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-9mBADfADhjGFF7UJ3R3A-- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list