Configuring The Kernel

• Before we compile the kernel, we need to configure it.
• This includes telling it which drivers and features to compile ...
• ... and how to compile them (as modules or inside the kernel's main file).
• Several configuration programs are supported by the kernel, to be launched using one of the following commands:

  make config

  A simple text-mode program, that asks a zillion questions one after the other. Not recommended.

  make menuconfig

  A full-screen text-mode program. Use it if you don't have X windows running, or if you're connected from a remote location.

  make xconfig

  A Graphical program. Use this one when you can.

• There is yet another, which will be shown later...

Originally written by guy keren