contribution in kernel community & testing kernel

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

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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