[Aboriginal] Using filesystem images on real hardware

[Matthew J Fletcher]

On 10/07/11 08:34, David Seikel wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:15:15 +0100 Matthew J Fletcher<amimjf at sky.com>
> wrote:
>
>> how did you find that just these config options need to be set,
>> looking at most linux kernel config files there are about 4000 lines
>> in it. I guess most of those are defaults, do you just diff a default
>> config file against a board specific one and see whats different ?
>> then make semi intelligent guesses about if those changes are
>> actually target specific or just the personal preference of the guy
>> who created the kernel config for that board ?
>
> That's called a miniconfig.  Have a look at
> sources/toys/miniconfig.sh for some details about those.
>

Ok, i also looked the comments in the script and the docs at 
http://lwn.net/Articles/160497/ but i think i am missing a bit of 
documentation on how this works.

For my board i have a patched 2.6.31 by freescale, it comes with a 
.config file

So in the LWN article it says 'create a mini.config file', so i 'touch 
mini.config'.

I then run 'make allnoconfig KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=mini.config', my .config 
file is now 14k instead of 17k, but mini.config is still zero bytes.

Looking at the usage for miniconfig.sh "Usage: miniconfig.sh 
configfile". I do './miniconfig.sh mini.config', which gives me the 
following output

-----------------
[mfletcher at purplebox linux-2.6.31]$ ./miniconfig.sh mini.config
cmp: EOF on mini.config
Sanity test failed, normalizing starting configuration...
--- mini.config 2011-07-10 15:09:39.665898664 +0100
+++ .config     2011-07-10 15:17:31.155212675 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,636 @@
+#
+# Automatically generated make config: don't edit
+# Linux kernel version: 2.6.31
+#
+CONFIG_64BIT=y
+# CONFIG_X86_32 is not set
+CONFIG_X86_64=y
+CONFIG_X86=y
+CONFIG_OUTPUT_FORMAT="elf64-x86-64"
+CONFIG_ARCH_DEFCONFIG="arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig"
+CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME=y
+CONFIG_GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE=y
+CONFIG_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG=y
+CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS=y
+CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST=y
+CONFIG_LOCKDEP_SUPPORT=y
+CONFIG_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT=y
+CONFIG_HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT=y
+CONFIG_FAST_CMPXCHG_LOCAL=y
+CONFIG_MMU=y
+CONFIG_ZONE_DMA=y
+CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y
+CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP=y
+CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG=y
+CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS=y
+CONFIG_GENERIC_HWEIGHT=y
+CONFIG_ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC=y
+CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK=y
+# CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM is not set
+CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_CPU_IDLE_WAIT=y
+CONFIG_GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY=y
+CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL=y
+CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX=y
+CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_DEFAULT_IDLE=y
+CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE=y
+CONFIG_HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA=y
+CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_PER_CPU_AREA=y
+# CONFIG_HAVE_CPUMASK_OF_CPU_MAP is not set
+CONFIG_ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE=y
+CONFIG_ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE=y
+CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32=y
+CONFIG_ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP=y
+CONFIG_AUDIT_ARCH=y
+CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING=y
+CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y
+CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS=y
+CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO__DO_IRQ=y
+CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE=y
+# CONFIG_KTIME_SCALAR is not set
+CONFIG_DEFCONFIG_LIST="/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
+CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS=y
+
+#
+# General setup
+#
+# CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is not set
+CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP=y
+CONFIG_INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT=32
+CONFIG_LOCALVERSION=""
+# CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is not set
+CONFIG_HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP=y
+CONFIG_HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2=y
+CONFIG_HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA=y
+CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP=y
+# CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2 is not set
+# CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA is not set
+# CONFIG_SWAP is not set
+# CONFIG_SYSVIPC is not set
+# CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT is not set
+
+#
+# RCU Subsystem
+#
+# CONFIG_CLASSIC_RCU is not set
+CONFIG_TREE_RCU=y
+# CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU is not set
+# CONFIG_RCU_TRACE is not set
+CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT=64
+# CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT is not set
+# CONFIG_TREE_RCU_TRACE is not set
+# CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU_TRACE is not set
+# CONFIG_IKCONFIG is not set
+CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=17
+CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK=y
+# CONFIG_CGROUPS is not set
+# CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 is not set
+# CONFIG_RELAY is not set
+CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y
+# CONFIG_UTS_NS is not set
+# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is not set
+# CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is not set
+CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
+CONFIG_ANON_INODES=y
+# CONFIG_EMBEDDED is not set
+CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
+CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y
+# CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is not set
+CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y
+CONFIG_PRINTK=y
+CONFIG_BUG=y
+CONFIG_ELF_CORE=y
+CONFIG_PCSPKR_PLATFORM=y
+CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y
+CONFIG_FUTEX=y
+CONFIG_EPOLL=y
+CONFIG_SIGNALFD=y
+CONFIG_TIMERFD=y
+CONFIG_EVENTFD=y
+CONFIG_SHMEM=y
+CONFIG_AIO=y
+CONFIG_HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS=y
+
+#
+# Performance Counters
+#
+# CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS is not set
+CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS=y
+CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=y
+# CONFIG_STRIP_ASM_SYMS is not set
+# CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK is not set
+# CONFIG_SLAB is not set
+CONFIG_SLUB=y
+# CONFIG_SLOB is not set
+# CONFIG_PROFILING is not set
+# CONFIG_MARKERS is not set
+CONFIG_HAVE_OPROFILE=y
+CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS=y
+CONFIG_HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT=y
+CONFIG_HAVE_KPROBES=y
+CONFIG_HAVE_KRETPROBES=y
+CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK=y
+CONFIG_HAVE_DMA_ATTRS=y
+CONFIG_HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG=y
+
+#
+# GCOV-based kernel profiling
+#
+# CONFIG_SLOW_WORK is not set
+# CONFIG_HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT is not set
+CONFIG_SLABINFO=y
+CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES=y
+CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=0
+# CONFIG_MODULES is not set
+CONFIG_BLOCK=y
+# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG is not set
+# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY is not set
+
+#
+# IO Schedulers
+#
+CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP=y
+# CONFIG_IOSCHED_AS is not set
+# CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE is not set
+# CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ is not set
+# CONFIG_DEFAULT_AS is not set
+# CONFIG_DEFAULT_DEADLINE is not set
+# CONFIG_DEFAULT_CFQ is not set
+CONFIG_DEFAULT_NOOP=y
+CONFIG_DEFAULT_IOSCHED="noop"
+# CONFIG_FREEZER is not set
+
+#
+# Processor type and features
+#
+# CONFIG_NO_HZ is not set
+# CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS is not set
+CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BUILD=y
+# CONFIG_SMP is not set
+CONFIG_X86_MPPARSE=y
+# CONFIG_X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM is not set
+# CONFIG_SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER is not set
+# CONFIG_PARAVIRT_GUEST is not set
+# CONFIG_MEMTEST is not set
+# CONFIG_M386 is not set
+# CONFIG_M486 is not set
+# CONFIG_M586 is not set
+# CONFIG_M586TSC is not set
+# CONFIG_M586MMX is not set
+# CONFIG_M686 is not set
+# CONFIG_MPENTIUMII is not set
+# CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII is not set
+# CONFIG_MPENTIUMM is not set
+# CONFIG_MPENTIUM4 is not set
+# CONFIG_MK6 is not set
+# CONFIG_MK7 is not set
+# CONFIG_MK8 is not set
+# CONFIG_MCRUSOE is not set
+# CONFIG_MEFFICEON is not set
+# CONFIG_MWINCHIPC6 is not set
+# CONFIG_MWINCHIP3D is not set
+# CONFIG_MGEODEGX1 is not set
+# CONFIG_MGEODE_LX is not set
+# CONFIG_MCYRIXIII is not set
+# CONFIG_MVIAC3_2 is not set
+# CONFIG_MVIAC7 is not set
+# CONFIG_MPSC is not set
+# CONFIG_MCORE2 is not set
+CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU=y
+CONFIG_X86_CPU=y
+CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES=64
+CONFIG_X86_INTERNODE_CACHE_BYTES=64
+CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y
+CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=6
+CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
+CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
+CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG64=y
+CONFIG_X86_CMOV=y
+CONFIG_X86_MINIMUM_CPU_FAMILY=64
+CONFIG_X86_DEBUGCTLMSR=y
+CONFIG_CPU_SUP_INTEL=y
+CONFIG_CPU_SUP_AMD=y
+CONFIG_CPU_SUP_CENTAUR=y
+# CONFIG_X86_DS is not set
+CONFIG_HPET_TIMER=y
+CONFIG_DMI=y
+CONFIG_SWIOTLB=y
+CONFIG_IOMMU_HELPER=y
+# CONFIG_IOMMU_API is not set
+CONFIG_NR_CPUS=1
+CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y
+# CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY is not set
+# CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set
+CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y
+CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y
+# CONFIG_X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS is not set
+# CONFIG_X86_MCE is not set
+# CONFIG_I8K is not set
+# CONFIG_MICROCODE is not set
+# CONFIG_X86_MSR is not set
+# CONFIG_X86_CPUID is not set
+# CONFIG_X86_CPU_DEBUG is not set
+CONFIG_ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT=y
+CONFIG_DIRECT_GBPAGES=y
+CONFIG_ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT=y
+CONFIG_ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE=y
+CONFIG_ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL=y
+CONFIG_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL=y
+# CONFIG_FLATMEM_MANUAL is not set
+# CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL is not set
+CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_MANUAL=y
+CONFIG_SPARSEMEM=y
+CONFIG_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT=y
+CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y
+CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE=y
+# CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is not set
+# CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG is not set
+CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED=y
+CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS=4
+CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT=y
+CONFIG_ZONE_DMA_FLAG=1
+CONFIG_BOUNCE=y
+CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS=y
+CONFIG_HAVE_MLOCK=y
+CONFIG_HAVE_MLOCKED_PAGE_BIT=y
+CONFIG_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR=4096
+# CONFIG_X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION is not set
+# CONFIG_X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K is not set
+# CONFIG_MTRR is not set
+# CONFIG_SECCOMP is not set
+# CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR is not set
+# CONFIG_HZ_100 is not set
+CONFIG_HZ_250=y
+# CONFIG_HZ_300 is not set
+# CONFIG_HZ_1000 is not set
+CONFIG_HZ=250
+# CONFIG_SCHED_HRTICK is not set
+# CONFIG_KEXEC is not set
+# CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is not set
+CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x1000000
+# CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set
+CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN=0x1000000
+# CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL is not set
+CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=y
+
+#
+# Power management and ACPI options
+#
+# CONFIG_PM is not set
+
+#
+# CPU Frequency scaling
+#
+# CONFIG_CPU_FREQ is not set
+# CONFIG_CPU_IDLE is not set
+
+#
+# Memory power savings
+#
+
+#
+# Bus options (PCI etc.)
+#
+# CONFIG_PCI is not set
+# CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI is not set
+CONFIG_ISA_DMA_API=y
+# CONFIG_PCCARD is not set
+
+#
+# Executable file formats / Emulations
+#
+# CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF is not set
+# CONFIG_HAVE_AOUT is not set
+# CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC is not set
+# CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION is not set
+# CONFIG_COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT is not set
+# CONFIG_NET is not set
+
+#
+# Device Drivers
+#
+
+#
+# Generic Driver Options
+#
+CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="/sbin/hotplug"
+CONFIG_STANDALONE=y
+# CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD is not set
+CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y
+# CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL is not set
+CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE=""
+# CONFIG_SYS_HYPERVISOR is not set
+# CONFIG_MTD is not set
+# CONFIG_PARPORT is not set
+# CONFIG_BLK_DEV is not set
+# CONFIG_MISC_DEVICES is not set
+CONFIG_HAVE_IDE=y
+# CONFIG_IDE is not set
+
+#
+# SCSI device support
+#
+# CONFIG_RAID_ATTRS is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_DMA is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_NETLINK is not set
+# CONFIG_ATA is not set
+# CONFIG_MD is not set
+# CONFIG_MACINTOSH_DRIVERS is not set
+# CONFIG_PHONE is not set
+
+#
+# Input device support
+#
+CONFIG_INPUT=y
+# CONFIG_INPUT_FF_MEMLESS is not set
+# CONFIG_INPUT_POLLDEV is not set
+
+#
+# Userland interfaces
+#
+CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y
+# CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX is not set
+CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_X=1024
+CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_Y=768
+# CONFIG_INPUT_JOYDEV is not set
+# CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV is not set
+# CONFIG_INPUT_EVBUG is not set
+
+#
+# Input Device Drivers
+#
+CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD=y
+CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD=y
+# CONFIG_KEYBOARD_LKKBD is not set
+# CONFIG_KEYBOARD_NEWTON is not set
+# CONFIG_KEYBOARD_STOWAWAY is not set
+# CONFIG_KEYBOARD_SUNKBD is not set
+# CONFIG_KEYBOARD_XTKBD is not set
+# CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE is not set
+# CONFIG_INPUT_JOYSTICK is not set
+# CONFIG_INPUT_TABLET is not set
+# CONFIG_INPUT_TOUCHSCREEN is not set
+# CONFIG_INPUT_MISC is not set
+
+#
+# Hardware I/O ports
+#
+CONFIG_SERIO=y
+CONFIG_SERIO_I8042=y
+# CONFIG_SERIO_SERPORT is not set
+# CONFIG_SERIO_CT82C710 is not set
+CONFIG_SERIO_LIBPS2=y
+# CONFIG_SERIO_RAW is not set
+# CONFIG_GAMEPORT is not set
+
+#
+# Character devices
+#
+CONFIG_VT=y
+CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS=y
+CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
+CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y
+# CONFIG_VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING is not set
+# CONFIG_DEVKMEM is not set
+# CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD is not set
+
+#
+# Serial drivers
+#
+# CONFIG_SERIAL_8250 is not set
+CONFIG_FIX_EARLYCON_MEM=y
+
+#
+# Non-8250 serial port support
+#
+CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
+# CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES is not set
+# CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS is not set
+# CONFIG_IPMI_HANDLER is not set
+# CONFIG_HW_RANDOM is not set
+# CONFIG_NVRAM is not set
+# CONFIG_RTC is not set
+# CONFIG_GEN_RTC is not set
+# CONFIG_R3964 is not set
+# CONFIG_MWAVE is not set
+# CONFIG_PC8736x_GPIO is not set
+# CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER is not set
+# CONFIG_HANGCHECK_TIMER is not set
+# CONFIG_I2C is not set
+# CONFIG_SPI is not set
+
+#
+# PPS support
+#
+CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB=y
+# CONFIG_GPIOLIB is not set
+# CONFIG_W1 is not set
+# CONFIG_POWER_SUPPLY is not set
+# CONFIG_HWMON is not set
+# CONFIG_THERMAL is not set
+# CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON is not set
+# CONFIG_WATCHDOG is not set
+CONFIG_SSB_POSSIBLE=y
+
+#
+# Sonics Silicon Backplane
+#
+# CONFIG_SSB is not set
+
+#
+# Multifunction device drivers
+#
+# CONFIG_MFD_CORE is not set
+# CONFIG_MFD_SM501 is not set
+# CONFIG_HTC_PASIC3 is not set
+# CONFIG_MFD_TMIO is not set
+# CONFIG_REGULATOR is not set
+# CONFIG_MEDIA_SUPPORT is not set
+
+#
+# Graphics support
+#
+# CONFIG_VGASTATE is not set
+# CONFIG_VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL is not set
+# CONFIG_FB is not set
+# CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_LCD_SUPPORT is not set
+
+#
+# Display device support
+#
+# CONFIG_DISPLAY_SUPPORT is not set
+
+#
+# Console display driver support
+#
+CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
+# CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK is not set
+CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
+# CONFIG_SOUND is not set
+# CONFIG_HID_SUPPORT is not set
+# CONFIG_USB_SUPPORT is not set
+# CONFIG_MMC is not set
+# CONFIG_MEMSTICK is not set
+# CONFIG_NEW_LEDS is not set
+# CONFIG_ACCESSIBILITY is not set
+# CONFIG_EDAC is not set
+# CONFIG_RTC_CLASS is not set
+# CONFIG_DMADEVICES is not set
+# CONFIG_AUXDISPLAY is not set
+# CONFIG_UIO is not set
+
+#
+# TI VLYNQ
+#
+# CONFIG_STAGING is not set
+# CONFIG_X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES is not set
+
+#
+# Firmware Drivers
+#
+# CONFIG_EDD is not set
+CONFIG_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP=y
+# CONFIG_DELL_RBU is not set
+# CONFIG_DCDBAS is not set
+# CONFIG_DMIID is not set
+# CONFIG_ISCSI_IBFT_FIND is not set
+
+#
+# File systems
+#
+# CONFIG_EXT2_FS is not set
+# CONFIG_EXT3_FS is not set
+# CONFIG_EXT4_FS is not set
+# CONFIG_REISERFS_FS is not set
+# CONFIG_JFS_FS is not set
+# CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL is not set
+# CONFIG_XFS_FS is not set
+CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING=y
+# CONFIG_FSNOTIFY is not set
+# CONFIG_DNOTIFY is not set
+# CONFIG_INOTIFY is not set
+# CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER is not set
+# CONFIG_QUOTA is not set
+# CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS is not set
+# CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS is not set
+# CONFIG_FUSE_FS is not set
+
+#
+# Caches
+#
+
+#
+# CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems
+#
+# CONFIG_ISO9660_FS is not set
+# CONFIG_UDF_FS is not set
+
+#
+# DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems
+#
+# CONFIG_MSDOS_FS is not set
+# CONFIG_VFAT_FS is not set
+# CONFIG_NTFS_FS is not set
+
+#
+# Pseudo filesystems
+#
+CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
+# CONFIG_PROC_KCORE is not set
+CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL=y
+CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR=y
+CONFIG_SYSFS=y
+# CONFIG_TMPFS is not set
+# CONFIG_HUGETLBFS is not set
+# CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE is not set
+# CONFIG_CONFIGFS_FS is not set
+# CONFIG_MISC_FILESYSTEMS is not set
+
+#
+# Partition Types
+#
+# CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED is not set
+CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
+# CONFIG_NLS is not set
+
+#
+# Kernel hacking
+#
+CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT=y
+# CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME is not set
+# CONFIG_ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED is not set
+# CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK is not set
+CONFIG_FRAME_WARN=2048
+# CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ is not set
+# CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS is not set
+# CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is not set
+# CONFIG_HEADERS_CHECK is not set
+# CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL is not set
+# CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON is not set
+# CONFIG_SLUB_STATS is not set
+CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE=y
+CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT=y
+CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS=y
+# CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is not set
+# CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR is not set
+# CONFIG_LATENCYTOP is not set
+# CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK is not set
+CONFIG_USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT=y
+CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER=y
+CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER=y
+CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST=y
+CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST=y
+CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE=y
+CONFIG_HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD=y
+CONFIG_HAVE_FTRACE_SYSCALLS=y
+CONFIG_TRACING_SUPPORT=y
+# CONFIG_FTRACE is not set
+# CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG is not set
+# CONFIG_SAMPLES is not set
+CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_KGDB=y
+CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK=y
+# CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is not set
+# CONFIG_X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP is not set
+CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y
+# CONFIG_IOMMU_STRESS is not set
+CONFIG_HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT=y
+CONFIG_IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80=0
+CONFIG_IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED=1
+CONFIG_IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY=2
+CONFIG_IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE=3
+CONFIG_IO_DELAY_0X80=y
+# CONFIG_IO_DELAY_0XED is not set
+# CONFIG_IO_DELAY_UDELAY is not set
+# CONFIG_IO_DELAY_NONE is not set
+CONFIG_DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE=0
+# CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING is not set
+
+#
+# Security options
+#
+# CONFIG_KEYS is not set
+# CONFIG_SECURITY is not set
+# CONFIG_SECURITYFS is not set
+# CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES is not set
+# CONFIG_CRYPTO is not set
+CONFIG_HAVE_KVM=y
+CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQCHIP=y
+# CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION is not set
+# CONFIG_BINARY_PRINTF is not set
+
+#
+# Library routines
+#
+CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT=y
+CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT=y
+CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_LAST_BIT=y
+# CONFIG_CRC_CCITT is not set
+# CONFIG_CRC16 is not set
+# CONFIG_CRC_T10DIF is not set
+# CONFIG_CRC_ITU_T is not set
+# CONFIG_CRC32 is not set
+# CONFIG_CRC7 is not set
+# CONFIG_LIBCRC32C is not set
+CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM=y
+CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT=y
+CONFIG_HAS_DMA=y
.config mini.config differ: byte 1, line 1
Insanity test failed: reversing blank line removal heuristic.
Calculating mini.config...
[37] 0/0 lines 0 bytes 100%
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but my mini.config is still zero bytes.

anybody got a set of steps to follow for miniconfig.sh




regards

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Matthew J Fletcher
amimjf(at)sky.com
www.amimjf.org
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