Kernelconfig from scratch

Creating a Kernel Config from scratch

If you've followed the "roll your own kernel" section, you wind up at a point where you have the Linux kernel source for a certain version of Linux, but no configuration file to compile that source into a viable kernel - more specifically, a kernel that is viable for your hardware and your purposes. Suppose you decide to make such a kernel configuration file from scratch, without any example file or other starting point. What do you have to do?

First off, there are three main ways in which to create the required kernel configuration file:

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