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submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Greetings,

I want to trim down my Linux kernel to only support a tty and ethernet card, I don't need any other features, has anyone done something similar of trimming down the linux kernel. I know that "make tinyconfig" exist but it's not what I want.

can anyone suggest me something? or provide me some documentation to do it?

Thanks in advance!

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

you might have to read what all those options are about. also, what you are referring to as ethernet may or may not be a specific driver, and tty itself is a somewhat abstract concept, maybe you mean serial - which is often addressed by or attached to TTYs?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

ohk so basically I need enable these two things:

  1. Ethernet Card Driver
  2. Serial Console

other things would be enabled by default in "make menuconfig" right?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Do you want it to boot? If so, you need a lot more

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago
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