A different approach to kernel configuration

Posted Sep 13, 2017 4:31 UTC (Wed) by unixbhaskar (guest, #44758)
Parent article: A different approach to kernel configuration

I am looking forward to such a thing to come up. I have been hand-tuning kernel for many years now and it is a cumbersome process, but you gain a lot of insight about it. But having a tool like this would have certainly help lesser mortals better time.

A different approach to kernel configuration

Posted Sep 13, 2017 18:40 UTC (Wed) by Tara_Li (guest, #26706) [Link] (1 responses)

Perhaps if the tool scanned the hardware first, and then generated a "suggested config" that could then be tweaked - bonus points if it includes comments on what it found and why it suggested that configuration - and even a "Found nVidia graphics chipset - would you like to use the free nouveau driver, or will you be installing the nVidia proprietary driver later?"

A different approach to kernel configuration

Posted Sep 14, 2017 19:05 UTC (Thu) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

Graphics drivers are particularly annoying here. You either want everything for a distro kernel, or want a very specific one for a custom kernel. But unlike (say) sound cards, the latter's not an option — you need to compile in support for all nVidia cards or all Radeons or all Intel chips. My /boot/vmlinuz is growing almost a megabyte per year because of it.