···218218219219 NOTES on "make config":220220221221- - having unnecessary drivers will make the kernel bigger, and can221221+ - Having unnecessary drivers will make the kernel bigger, and can222222 under some circumstances lead to problems: probing for a223223 nonexistent controller card may confuse your other controllers224224225225- - compiling the kernel with "Processor type" set higher than 386225225+ - Compiling the kernel with "Processor type" set higher than 386226226 will result in a kernel that does NOT work on a 386. The227227 kernel will detect this on bootup, and give up.228228···232232 but will work on different machines regardless of whether they233233 have a math coprocessor or not. 234234235235- - the "kernel hacking" configuration details usually result in a235235+ - The "kernel hacking" configuration details usually result in a236236 bigger or slower kernel (or both), and can even make the kernel237237 less stable by configuring some routines to actively try to238238 break bad code to find kernel problems (kmalloc()). Thus you