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#a11y is an accessibility hash tag you may run across on the internet. |
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That covers assistive technologies like screen readers; refreshable |
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braille displays, magnifiers, and similar other technologies I've been |
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fortunate to have never needed to use for work on technology. |
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The information you provided I think will help my next gentoo install go |
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better in the kernel build phase thanks. |
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On Wed, 6 Apr 2022, Jack wrote: |
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> On 2022.04.06 14:51, Jude DaShiell wrote: |
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> >I'm curious, with a system about to build a kernel does a command or |
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> >command switch exist to tell the kernel build process to build the kernel |
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> >in such a way that all hardware now enabled gets enabled in the build of |
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> >the kernel? |
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> Which pieces get built into the kernel (or as loadable modules) is controlled |
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> by .config. To get the new kernel to include all the drivers/modules enabled |
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> in the current kernel, you can "zcat /proc/config.gz > .config" in the new |
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> /usr/src/linux. (That does assume the running kernel is built with the |
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> parameters to create /proc/config.gz.) Then run "make oldconfig" (or one of |
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> it's variants) to include new lines to .config. To see (a subset) of those |
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> modules are actually used by existing hardware, do "lspci -k". I don't know |
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> of any script to automatically parse that output, although I wouldn't be |
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> surprised if there was one (or more.) Note hat probably won't include modules |
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> used for usb devices, just the usb hubs. Currently loaded modules can be |
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> listed with lsmod, but that doesn't include anything built in. |
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> Is a11y a typo, or just something I don't understand? If you mean to say (all |
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> Y) Y to all kernel config questions, I believe there is a make option for the |
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> kernel which will do that - but I'd have to read the docs for the details. |
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> Also, while that's of use for a distro kernel (where you have no idea what |
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> will be in PCs where it gets used) it will add lots of stuff to the kernel |
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> that you are unlikely to ever use. What is your actual goal? |
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> Jack |
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