README - General description of the linux-configs collection

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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation. See the COPYING file.

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The linux-configs Collection is a set of Kconfig configuration files for the Linux kernel. This collection tracks the stable and longterm releases of the Linux kernel from the Linux Kernel Archives https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html.

The collection contains Kconfig files that have been preconfigured in order to be used, with different architectures and with certain hardware requirements, when a new Linux kernel is manually built.

This collection is originally designed to work with the BANDIT toolkit https://github.com/phyglos/bandit and the phyglos-kernel bundle https://github.com/phyglos/phyglos. In this case everything is handled by the BANDIT; only the desired kernel version needs to be selected in the phyglos-kernel bundle configuration.

However, the Kconfig files included in this collection can be used as independent configuration files when manually building a new Linux kernel. In order to use these files manually just download the wanted file from the GitHub repository https://github.com/phyglos/linux-configs or download and uncompress the package from the FTP site ftp://phyglos.org/linux-configs and copy it as ".config" in the kernel source tree.

The linux-config collection is in DEVELOPMENT status. This means that the structure of the repository and some other elements like naming conventions, etc. can still suffer some changes.

The package is already in regular use in the phyglos-kernel bundle in the phyglos catalog for the phy GNU/Linux operating system. Also, the individual KConfig files can be used as a starting point when manually building a new Linux kernel for a given configuration.

The COPYING file contains the GNU License for this software.

The RELEASE file describes the main changes in this release.

See the documentation at https://docs.phyglos.org/linux-configs