Re: [gentoo-user] Inquiry about gentoo kernel configuration

[Dongliang Mu]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 1:23 AM Ramon Fischer <Ramon_Fischer@×××××××.de> wrote:
>
> In addition to this:
>
> I did some further research about this, since I actually never thought
> about getting the Kernel sources without having an installed Gentoo system:
>
> You may take a look at one of the HTTP mirrors[1], preferably one in
> your country and navigate to "/releases/<cpu_architecture>/". There you
> will find a Live DVD image - "livedvd-amd64-multilib-20160704.iso" for
> example - from which you could boot from; either virtually in VirtualBox
> or other virtualisation solutions or directly from hardware.
>
> Click on "Login" to login and get the Kernel sources from
> "/usr/src/linux/.config".

Thanks for your effort. But it seems such livecd is not maintained
anymore. The latest version is 20170118 [1], right?

[1] http://mirrors.kernel.org/gentoo/releases/amd64/20170118/

>
> -Ramon
>
> [1] https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/mirrors/
>
> On 10/07/2021 14:24, William Kenworthy wrote:
> > On 10/7/21 7:40 pm, Ramon Fischer wrote:
> >> Hello Dongliang,
> >>
> >> you could retrieve kernel configuration files from a "Minimal
> >> Installation CD"[1] of Gentoo. Mount it and look for
> >> "/boot/gentoo-config".
> >>
> >> But I guess, you want a untouched version, don't you?
> >>
> >> -Ramon
> > Hi, to expand on this - Gentoo doesn't really have a standardised kernel
> > config - the nearest to that is the above install CD, or the default
> > generic catchall "genkernel" one - most people seem to manually
> > configurate and tune/customise a .config and then copy it from system to
> > system.  There are a few bin(ary) kernels in portage/sys-kernel/* that
> > might work for you but I have never tried them.
> >
> > You can boot almost any linux live media on your target hardware and
> > extract the config (sysrescuecd is a good one) and use their sources, or
> > build the kernel using their config on top of Gentoo's vanilla-sources,
> > or gentoo-sources.
> >
> > Or grab another distros boot directory (containing the kernel, initrd
> > and config files), the matching /lib/modules directory and boot that
> > instead of building your own (I do this often on uboot based arm systems
> > and raspberry pi's.)
> >
> > Or ask on the list if someone has a config that matches your target
> > (occasionally it comes up).
> >
> > BillK
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> [1] https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/
> >>
> >> On 10/07/2021 11:15, Dongliang Mu wrote:
> >>> Hi Gentoo users,
> >>>
> >>> I am a newbie to Gentoo. For Debian, I can get configuration files
> >>> from Debian packages. I wonder if possible to get the kernel
> >>> configuration files of Gentoo.
> >>>
> >>> If this question is invalid, please let me know.
> >>>
> >>> [1]
> >>> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux/linux-config-5.10_5.10.46-1_amd64.deb
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> My best regards to you.
> >>>
> >>>        No System Is Safe!
> >>>        Dongliang Mu
> >>>
>
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