Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Mon Oct 15 2007 - 15:17:50 EST


On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 10:04:11AM -0700, Mark Gross wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 07:01:28PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects
>
> Is there already a make config option that will do a good job at setting
> a default .config file based on what is already running on a system?
>
> I get tiered of trimming down my .config for my laptop build so it takes
> less than 30min to build a kernel.

Ehh? You do it once, then leave it aside or in /proc/config.gz, on new
kernel copy it back, "make oldconfig", answer several questions and here
we go.

> Bonus credit to additional "expert" options (like those powertop puts
> out) for target uses, laptop, HPC, home file share, embedded targets....
>
> Oh, and lets make the expert configs easily extensible.
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