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Kernel Configuration Features
- Loadable Module Support: Allows daemons like a webserver to load modules as they are needed.
- Processor Type and Features: Support for a particular system like selecting the processor type and the amount of memory system supports.
- General Setup: Networking, PCI BIOS support, Power management, ELF support, and a.out binaries.
- Block Devices: Lists entries that enable support for IDE, floppy drive, parallel port devices, RAM disk support, and loopback devices for mounting CD-ROM image files.
- Multi-Device Support (RAID) and LVM (Device Drivers): Enable the use of RAID devices, by choosing the RAID support level, enable Logical Volume Management (LVM) to combine partitions into logical volumes managed dynamically.
- Networking Options: It supports device drivers, networking support & capabilities to operate as a gateway, firewall, or router, and networking devices, including Ethernet, token ring, AppleTalk devices, and WAN interface.
These options are enabled:
* TCP/IP – for Internet networking
* Network Packet Filtering – to support for an IPtables firewall
* AppleTalk- for NetTalk and to connect to the Machintosh system on the network - ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL Device Drivers Support: To select the support for IDE ATA hard drives and ATAPI CD-ROMs.
- SCSI Support Device Drivers: It supports SCSI disk, SCSI Low-Level Drivers, tape drives, and CD-ROMs.
- Multimedia Device Drivers to support various multimedia cards like Video4Linux
- Bluetooth Device Drivers: It supports Bluetooth enabled peripherals, listing drivers for USB serial and PC card interfaces.
- Sound Device Drivers: Kernel 2.6 and later supports different sound cards via Advanced Linux Linux Architecture.
- Character Device Drivers: Lists features for devices like keyboard, mouse, and serial ports.
- File Systems: It includes DOS, VFAT, NTFS, CDROM's file systems like ISE & UDF, Network file systems like NFS, SMB (Samba), NCP (Netware) and HFS (Macintosh).
- Kernel Hacking: For developer's interest who works on kernel-level. They need to modify kernel-code for debugging or provide a measure of control during crashes.
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