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Customizing the Kernel Config

After cloning a kernel's git repository, it is possible to customize the configuration file to your liking. The procedure is slightly different depending on if you're using hardy or intrepid.

Customizing the Hardy Kernel Config

The eeepc kernel configuration is stored within the following file on ubuntu-hardy-eeepc.git:

• debian/binary-custom.d/eeepc/config.i386

It is possible to edit this file directly, or to use the traditional kernel "config" or "menuconfig" on it via symlink:

ln -s debian/binary-custom.d/eeepc/config.i386 .config

make menuconfig

This should automatically update our eeepc configuration file debian/binary-custom.d/eeepc/config.i386, however it will leave a bit of a mess. Make sure you get "Mr. Proper" to clean the kernel up of any temporary config/build files!

make mrproper

(Don't worry, "Mr. Proper" was modified in my repository to skip the debian sub directory. If you were to run "make mrproper" on a direct ubuntu-intrepid.git clone, it would turf your entire debian folder. Lame!)

Now you're ready to build!

Customizing the Intrepid Kernel Config

Intrepid is slightly different from hardy. The eeepc kernel configuration is stored within the following files on ubuntu-intrepid-eeepc.git:

• debian/config/i386/config
• debian/config/i386/config.eeepc
• debian/config/i386/config.eeepc-lean

Note, the first config file actually contains shared configuration options for all of the config.* flavours. The completed .config file used at build time is actually config and config.<flavour> concatenated together.

Depending on which kernel you're interested in (eeepc or eeepc-lean) it is possible to edit these files directly, or to use the traditional kernel "config" or "menuconfig" on it via manual copy:

cat debian/config/i386/config debian/config/i386/config.eeepc > .config

make menuconfig

Once complete, you need to restore your new configuration back where ubuntu expects it to be.

cp .config debian/config/i386/config.eeepc

However, now our config.eeepc is actually the FULL config, whereas the config.generic and config.eeepc-lean are still the split config. Run updateconfigs to fix it:

debian/rules updateconfigs

Finally, "Mr. Proper" to clean up the mess

make mrproper

Now you're ready to build!