Installation manual

Conﬁguration of the Custom Kernel

4. 1. Kernel Conﬁguration Summary

Everytime we buy a newlaptop, we are amazed about the lack of useful documentation about the actual hard-

ware conﬁguration and its capabilities. IBM’scustomer support website features an overwhelming amount of

downloadable information — which turns out to be mostly irrelevant or dumbed down beyond anyusefulness.

Our current kernel conﬁguration is based on manyguesstimates. It seems to work, though. But remember: This

story is for your entertainment only.Ifyou use this kernel conﬁguration “as is” without reading and understand-

ing the somewhat more detailed sections below, you will almost certainly damage your precious Thinkpad.

Kernel conﬁguration:

—— Code Maturity Level Options ——

yes Promt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers

—— Loadable Module Support ——

yes Enable loadable module support

yes Set version information on all modules

yes Kernel modules loader

—— Processor Type And Features ——

Pentium−4 Processor family

off High Memory support

yes MTRR (Memory Type Range Regsiters) support

—— General Setup ——

yes Networking support

yes PCI support

any PCI access mode

yes PCI device name database

yes Support for hot−pluggable devices

—— PCMCIA/Cardbus support ——

yes PCMCIA/Cardbus support