Messages in this thread | | | From | (G.W. Wettstein) | Date | Thu, 14 Jan 1999 16:39:44 -0600 | Subject | Re: Building .config into the kernel |
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On Jan 14, 7:09pm, Alan Cox wrote: } Subject: Re: Building .config into the kernel
> > Right: that's quite a few positive replies regarding something like > > /proc/config.gz. > > > > Anyone prepared to argue against it?
> Yes. Because the > > cat .config.in >> zImage > > suggestion is even better. It takes no kernel memory and you can yank it off > the image trivially
This should be a non-issue in my opinion. My team runs a bunch of production Linux servers at my university job. Here is rpm output from one of our servers:
rpm -qa: Base-1.3-4 Kernel-2.0.35-3 Networking-1.0-24 Kerberos-1.0.5-5 Kernel_Static-2.0.36-1
rpm -q Kernel_Static -l: /boot /boot/vm2.0.36-1 /boot/vm2.0.36-1.config /boot/vm2.0.36-1.map
Kernels don't get installed unless they are packed like above. This doesn't have the advantage of the information being physically stuck but I'm not sure if I see the advantage to that.
Greg
}-- End of excerpt from Alan Cox
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