on Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:56:41AM -0600, Paul E Condon insinuated: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 12:29:07PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > i'm looking into grabbing a new kernel (because the one i'm using > > doesn't appear to have the "soundcore" option either compiled in or as > > a module -- can i fix this without updating kernels?). the one i have > > right now, i hand-rolled froum the 2.4.20 source. i don't feel like > > doing anothert one myself right now if i don't have to. > > > > in general, is there much of an advantage to hand-rolling over > > grabbing a stock kernel? i feel like everything i probably want to > > insert as a module (soundcore; usb; whatever) should be available in a > > stock kernel. > > > > thanks, > > > > </nori> > > > > I'm not a kernel expert, but I offer some 'practical' advice: > Choose a stock kernel that will boot on your hardware as a starting point. > Use make-kpkg to create a duplicate of that stock kernel. (this tests > your setup for creating kernels) > Then modify the .config to get where you want to be. > Take care to never loose an old .config file.
what you just described is, to me, equilavent to "rolling your own."
no?
> In the process you may discover that a stock kernel meets your needs.
how? by noticing that everything you want to turn on is already turned
on?
thanks,
</nori>
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