building from kernel source rpm

Brian West bionicfreeze at gmail.com
Wed Nov 28 02:28:45 UTC 2012


On 11/27/2012 09:19 PM, William Brown wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 21:06 -0500, Brian West wrote:
>> On 11/27/2012 07:44 PM, JD wrote:
>>> Hi Bruno, Alan,
>>>
>>> The rpmbuild interface does not provide the user a way
>>> to go through the entire config options before proceeding
>>> to build the kernel. If it does, I would really like to know
>>> how it's done.
>>>
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel
>
>>> Thanx.
>> i second that this would be nice so that we can tailor our kernels to
>> our config and not have unrequired drivers.
> The current kernel is module based, so you don't have "unneeded drivers"
> loaded.
>
>
>
>
So does this mean that when you install fedora or update your kernel 
that it only configures the modules that your hardware requires thus 
creating a custom kernel for your system?

-Brian
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