This site provides an easy way to access the kernel configuration files,
which were used to build the official Debian's binary kernel images from the
linux-2.6 source package. They are normally distributed as a part
of the
linux-image binary packages. For more information on
kernel packaging in Debian see
Chapter 3 of
the
Debian Kernel Handbook.
To access the files select the version of the
linux-2.6 package
and the architecture from the table below.
You can use the configuration files to produce kernel images identical
(or almost so) to the officially provided ones. Good use examples
include various debugging scenarios, as well as creating a custom
configuration file, only slightly differing from the official one. It
is also a simple way to obtain a config file for the version which is
no longer in the archive, or to check whether a particular kernel
option is turned on or off in an official kernel image which you do
not have installed.
You can save the file as
.config (after uncompressing it)
in an unpacked kernel source tree, and run
make oldconfig to
configure the tree using it, or run other configuration frontends to
use the file as a starting point for a custom configuration. See
Chapter
4 of the
Debian Kernel
Handbook for more information.