[ale] kernel .config reverse engineering

David Tomaschik david at systemoverlord.com
Thu May 8 19:39:32 EDT 2014


You can build with IKCONFIG and without IKCONFIG_PROC, in which case
scripts/extract-ikconfig is your friend (
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14958192/getting-config-from-linux-kernel-image
).


On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 4:48 AM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:

> There is a blog post which almost describes my problems with solution
> given as well. I'll try to read it carefully :)
>
> http://glandium.org/blog/?p=2664
>
>
> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Matt Hessel <matt.hessel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If you can't find one, you can try 'make localmodconfig' which tries to
>> configure the kernel config based on the modules you have loaded.
>>  On May 7, 2014 1:14 PM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at dsservices.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Those /boot/config-* files exist in RHEL and Centos as well for each
>>> kernel version you install.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
>>> Derek Atkins
>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 12:25 PM
>>> To: mhw at WittsEnd.com
>>> Cc: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>>> Subject: Re: [ale] kernel .config reverse engineering
>>>
>>> "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at WittsEnd.com> writes:
>>>
>>> > On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 19:42 -0400, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>>> >> Some distros (should?) have a config.gz somewhere under /proc for the
>>> >> running kernel, I thought...enabling that in the kernel configuration
>>> >> is something I habitually do in Gentoo.
>>> >
>>> > Not present in Fedora.  Interesting idea, though.
>>>
>>> No, but Fedora distributes a /boot/config-`uname -r` file for each
>>> kernel.
>>>
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