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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: contribution in kernel community & testing kernel
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 20:15:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <97708.1458778526@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHLvXObZYjpuXPT7Ffwkw16L83bN1jZ5+VEEsMXZiatzsOyJ1w@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 16:06:37 +0530, shubham k said:

> I want to work on x86 architecture. I am not sure how to go about unit
> testing. I can use qemu for testing but i find kernel on x86 architecture
> too big to compile. How i can get the smaller size kernel on x86
> architecture?

'make localmodconfig' is your friend.  Just make sure you plug in all your
USB devices at least once after rebooting, but before running it, so their
modules will be probed - localmodconfig parses (among other things) the
output of lsmod.
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-24  0:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-23 10:36 contribution in kernel community & testing kernel shubham k
2016-03-23 10:58 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2016-03-23 13:22 ` Hao Lee
2016-03-24  0:15 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu [this message]

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