Re: Compiling kernels - choosing options
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 01:38:09PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
| Hi all,
|
| Whenever I have compiled a kernel - twice so far on Debian, many times
| on Slackware - I've struck this issue.
|
| There are several features of a kernel that are expected to be
| configured a particular way for a particular distribution.
|
| For example, proc fs support, UNIX98 ptys or whatever they're called,
| whether parallel printer support should be a module or not.
|
| Does Debian (or any distro for that matter) have documents on this? Is
| the config file in the kernel source package preconfigured with these
| defaults?
The kernel-image packages for Debian include the config file used to
build them as /boot/config-<version>.
| Or do I just have to do lots of research myself before I start to make
| sure I get a kernel that will function properly with my system?
You have to do that anyways if you are going to know which features
you do and don't want. Building a kernel and trying it out is a part
of that research. Nothing beats experience :-).
-D
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