barebones kernel:where to look

[Littlefield, Tyler]

Hello:
I started working on a barebones kernel for the server I am running on 
from something someone else had and it seems to be going good.
I would like to take a good clean kernel and use it for my netbook, but 
I'm not really sure what the essentials are and what can be disabled. 
Basically I want it to be as small as possible with minimal module overhead.
Has anyone else done something like this for a netbook or perhaps 
something else I could borrow? Is there somewhere where I can dig deeper 
into the specifics of the kernel configuration?

Any ideas here would be really appreciated.

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