How do you generate the config file?

[Abel]

Hi!

Where do you get the config file from? or do you generate it yourself?

I'm using xUbuntu 16.04 in a VM inside VMWare, following the instructions
described in kernelnewbies wiki
<https://kernelnewbies.org/OutreachyfirstpatchAlt?action=show&redirect=OPWfirstpatchAlt>.
(By the way, the download links to the iso images of Ubuntu don't work for
me)

If I copy the latest config file in /boot, kernel 4.4.0, it starts to ask
me many config parameters that I don't know what to answer. I tried to
press always <enter> to set up the default parameters, but after compiling
I get an error trying to boot from that kernel (see atachment).

I tried with make menuconfig and that seems to work, but it takes too long
because it builds and includes many many drivers modules.
Yeah, I know I could navigate through the ncurses window and select the
stuff I want and deselect what I don't want, but I'd rather prefer just a
simple config file that builds and works and don't waste time in
understanding all the stuff that it's in there.

So, isn't there a way to get a simple config file just to develop kernel
stuff for an Ubuntu image?
I've even gone to the kernel ppa sources for Ubuntu:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.9.5/; but it only provides
a patch using the debian config files (which don't come from git sources of
course).

I just want a config file, copy it to the kernel root code and compile.

*Greetings,*

*                                                        Abel.*
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