Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:50:19 +0200 | From | Enrico Weigelt <> | Subject | Re: Automatic Configuration of a Kernel |
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* Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> 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.
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