kernel modules question

[Joshua Daniel Franklin]

Is there a special advantage to using "make xo_1_defconfig" instead of
just copying over a stock Fedora 11 .config file?

I've compiled a module but it looks like I need a couple dependencies
so I'm wondering if just compiling the kitchen sink would be easier
than searching through "make menuconfig".

I'm running the latest XO-1 kernel from
http://dev.laptop.org/~kernels/olpc-2.6.31-xo1/

I did basically this on a CentOS 5 machine:

lsb_release -d
# Description:  CentOS release 5.5 (Final)

yum -y install gcc make ncurses ncurses-devel glibc glibc-devel
glibc-headers rpmdevtools rpm-build

adduser olpcdev
su - olpcdev
rpmdev-setuptree

# look for the latest 60M src rpm here:
# http://dev.laptop.org/~kernels/olpc-2.6.31-xo1/?C=M;O=D
wget http://dev.laptop.org/~kernels/olpc-2.6.31-xo1/kernel-2.6.31_xo1-20100505.18...
rpm --nomd5 -i kernel-2.6.31_xo1-20100505.1835.1.olpc.b072a92.src.rpm
cd ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/
tar jxf olpc-2.6.tar.bz2
cd linux-2.6.31
make clean distclean
make ARCH=i386 INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 xo_1_defconfig
make ARCH=i386 INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 menuconfig
# activate bluetooth or whatever
make ARCH=i386 INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 modules

[James Cameron]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 09:56:40PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> Is there a special advantage to using "make xo_1_defconfig" instead of
> just copying over a stock Fedora 11 .config file?

You get the modules and code needed for the XO-1.  That's the special
advantage.