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!

  • china🇨🇳@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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    3 months ago

    yes that could work but I don’t know where is the option to only enabled tty and the internet ( Ethernet card ). all options I see seems cryptic and doesn’t make any sense, it’s maybe because I am new to Linux Kernel tinkering…

    • frankenswine@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months 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?

      • china🇨🇳@lemmy.caOPEnglish
        01·
        3 months 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?