From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C49BF138010 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:19:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E11ABE01C5; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:18:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx1.hadt.biz (sil.hadt.biz [5.9.16.100]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC6D4E01C5 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:16:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.255.100] (p5B3405B5.dip.t-dialin.net [91.52.5.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.hadt.biz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5357440034 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:16:38 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <5087CE16.6050506@hadt.biz> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:16:38 +0200 From: Michael Hampicke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel 2 manual References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 376e3005-59c2-4419-baa0-db382c58a633 X-Archives-Hash: 63b606f3eff99fe0aa77499c0cf18d2e > Is there any tool that can scan my pc and help me out with the .conf or > even generate one? I guess not. There are lots of options that I have no > idea what they are for. I think this will be the fun part, but I think I > can't get a running kernel before I optimize it, so I can do it gradually. Well good starting points have already been provided, I usually check for modules with lspci -k > Just for curiosity, what is the size of your kernel? Mine is 3.4 MB. 3.0M, initramfs 2.2M