Trimming kernel

Nicholas Comino celloworld at gmail.com
Sat Feb 5 23:09:32 UTC 2005


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Wilkinson" <james at westexe.demon.co.uk>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 6:31 AM
Subject: Re: Trimming kernel


> Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
>> AFAICT, you'll have to manually configure the kernel. I don't know of
>> any automatic tool that is able to create a .config for you that
>> reflect your exact hardware configuration.
>
> On the other hand, it's not *that* difficult to configure your own
> kernel. Keep a known good one around, and refer to its .config file. If
> you're not sure, and you can, build stuff as modules. Then look at which
> modules you're actually using. And you'll learn a lot!
>
> James.

[newbie question] how do you find out what modules you're using? (Apologies 
for hijacking).

~Nick 




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