Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:38:37 -0700 | From | Joel Becker <> | Subject | Cloning arch-independant KConfig |
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Sam, I guess this is either a feature request or just wondering whether KConfig supports this idea. Often I have a wonderful minimal .config that builds a test kernel. It only compiles the things I want in my kernel and modules, nothing more. Usually I start from a distro kernel and then keep turning things off until I reach some minimum. However, when I get a new machine of a different architecture, I can't bring that work forward. If I take this .config to that arch, the oldconfig just breaks. I don't get good defaults for the arch-specific stuff. Conversely, if I start from a distro .config for the new arch, I have to repeat all the whittle-down work. Is there any way to "extract" the non-arch-specific config values? Essentially, all the "use USB, build ext3, give me these network cards" fields should be kept, but I want to start from a default architecture config.
Joel
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