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Rebuilding the kernel...TinyCore becomes Not-So-TinyCore?
Ferns:
I have rebuilt the TinyCore 3.x kernel using the patched source and the provided config which can be found in 3.x/release/src/kernel. Everything works (compile, install, run) but the modules section is much larger compared to the one found in the distribution (my version is around 37MB, the lib/modules in the 3.x distribution is around 3.4MB). As a result loading the OS is much slower. I guess the official TC distribution strips some unneeded kernel driver weight but there is no config or special script that I could find. Does someone have this missing link?
Background: I started this excercise because I ultimately need to upgrade my kernel to 2.6.34+ for it includes a Quanta multi-touchscreen driver.
As an alternative maybe TC 3.5 (or TC 4.x) can upgrade the kernel to 2.6.35.9 (the last LTS kernel)? However, I rather be able to upgrade the kernel myself while keeping the core tiny :-)
Juanito:
The modules are stripped out into extensions named *2.6.33.3-tinycore.tcz
I didn't see a script to do this, but you could concatenate *2.6.33.3-tinycore.tcz.list for the full module listing.
gutmensch:
you can also do a
--- Code: ---make localmodconfig
--- End code ---
to get only the modules for your special system (requires all wanted modules to be loaded before that).
curaga:
The script is sorter.sh, in release/src/kernel.
robc:
Do you need to upgrade the kernel or is it just that the modules are prepackaged with the new kernel?
Have you tried building this module? http://hidtouchsuite.sourceforge.net/
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