building from kernel source rpm

[JD]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:19 PM, William Brown <william at firstyear.id.au>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.
>

The main point is that the build takes too darned long.
On my unicore cpu, it takes almost 2 days.
Building bazillions of useless modules is a great waste of time and machine.
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