Re: Mac Mini PPC - Is this the right list?

matt hull <[email protected]> Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:15:46 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.ppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>    This is my first PPC machine. I have used Gentoo for years as a
> user type so I've probably built 30 x86 boxes but never a PPC so I
> wasn't sure how to configure the kernel by hand so I swiped the
> /proc/config.gz fine from the CD boot environment and pushed it down
> into the chroot to use to configure my first PPC kernel. Does that
> sound reasonable for a Mac Mini? I ran make oldconfig and just hit
> enter until it finished. I figured if that kernel config could boot
> the machine from the CD it should be OK for a first kernel from the
> hard drive. Would you agree

the gentoo handbook tells you how to configure the kernel.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc.xml?part=1&chap=7

Code Listing 3.1: Invoking menuconfig

# cd /usr/src/linux
# make pmac32_defconfig
# make menuconfig

the default enables most if not all the ppc options you might need.   
after you get it working you will probably want to start removing some.

matt