Re: Why compiling.
On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 09:04 -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
> The reason machine A is not bootable is because a minor hardware change
> is capable of doing that with a custom kernel.
+1
I almost exclusively use self-build kernels only, because I need them,
but I don't drop too much hardware support, usually I try to use as much
of the config of a distro's default kernel as possible. As somebody
already mentioned, even on machines where RAM is an issue, there's no
need to load all modules. Since compiling a kernel does take a long
time, I would like to get rid of stuff I never ever will need, but to
get rid of it IMO is too time consuming itself.
My way is to copy a distro's kernel config, to patch my kernel, choose
my settings (add what is needed and what must be removed) and to run
make oldconfig.
On disk the needed space can become an issue, when collecting many,
many, many kernels, but one or a few kernels shouldn't be an issue.
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