Changes

  make menuconfig

  make menuconfig

Select "Load an Alternate Configuration File" and load the file "smeconfig". If you don't want to bother with the manual configuration below, you may also load the ready-made configuration file attached to this document and [[#Step 4: Compiling and installing the kernel|skip to the next step]].

Select "Load an Alternate Configuration File" and load the file "smeconfig". If you don't want to bother with the manual configuration below, you may also load the [http://wiki.contribs.org/images/6/62/Smeconfig.txt ready-made configuration file from this site] and [[#Step 4: Compiling and installing the kernel|skip to the next step]].

We should give our custom kernel a name, to distinguish it from a generic kernel. You may choose any suffix you want, in this example I will use "-custom-via". Select the following in the menu:

We should give our custom kernel a name, to distinguish it from a generic kernel. You may choose any suffix you want, in this example I will use "-custom-via". Select the following in the menu: