Hi John, If you try to set ALL the configuration params by yourself, you will get lost quickly ! As I did the first time I tried... The best is to take the prepared sources, either from your distrib CD's (I think it's something like kernel-sources) or one of Benjamin Herrenschmidt kernel sources. Try here : http://www.ppckernel.org/ under the "Ben kernel" section Then, first try to compile a kernel "as is" without any reconfiguration. If that works, you can go ahead and try to reconfigure. One warning. The .config file is the original configuration file. If you do a gmake clean or gmake mrproper, it will erase it. So you better save it somewhere, and not as .config.old, which is also erased. I think that both mentioned kernels are configured such that they rebuild correctly (I mean for PPC) the config file. But I'm not sure... Cheers Damir John Koenig wrote:
Hi,
May I impose and ask a general question about re-compiling the kernel?
I started to do this and I got lost (and discouraged due to great amount of time expended) trying to specify the configuration for my new kernel build...
Is there a way to get the config file that was used to compile my kernel that was installed by Yast2? That way I could just recompile sources with the same config as I am currently running, and test, before I start tweaking things?
thanks... for any advice or pointers/URLs...
J
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