Kernel By Hand - tips needed

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 02:40:11AM +0200, Asko Kauppi wrote:

> The initrd question is the puzzling one.  Do I need it, or not?  What's 
> in it?

A good reason to avoid building your own kernel if you don't need to.

> What I'm trying to achieve is just a faster version of the 386 Ubuntu
> kernel, customized for Virtual PC emulated needs (so I do know all the
> hardware, very precisely even).  I'd like to change as little as possible,
> main thing is changing CPU to Pentium-MMX (686 kernel crashes for some
> reason, although VPC is 686 + MMX capable).

The generic kernel should perform reasonably well in that environment.  I'm
not familiar with Virtual PC, but if it emulates the CPU, changing the
kernel optimization may not even have a significant effect.

-- 
 - mdz