Re: Automatic Configuration of a Kernel

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* Pavel Machek <[email protected]> wrote:

<snip>
> > It's for new linux users? They should use distributions kernels.
> > It's for "power users"? They just do make menuconfig...
> > It's for kernel developers? They just do vi .config.
> 
> Actually its "emacs .config" :-). But tool to help would be nice. For
> development, minimum config is nice (compiles fast), and creating
> config from scratch is quite painfull.

Yeah, I'd like to see it.

I often have to set of machines with very different hardware.
Of course such a autoconfig system cannot be perfect, but it can
be a great help for getting at least sub-optimal values and later
let the user do fine-tuning.


cu
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