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This is Juk's linux kernel config file for vmware
# All options are required unless noted as "Optional" or under a # Begin and # End block, which is also noted as "Optional" or "Hardware Specific"
# It is important that they are selected as built-in or the kernel might fail to correctly detect the partitions and/or filesystems.
# It is a good idea to run "make defconfig" first
Device Drivers --->
Generic Driver Options --->
() path to uevent helper
[*] Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev
[*] Automount devtmpfs at /dev, after the kernel mounted the rootfs
# Optional, required for VMware virtual machines
Misc devices --->
<*> VMware VMCI Driver (!! DANGER !! Virtual Machine Communication Interface - low-latency access to host memory bus)
Network device support --->
<*> VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver
<*> Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) --->
<*> AMD PCnet32 PCI support
<*> Realtek RTL-8139 C+ PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support
[*] Intel devices
<M> Intel(R) PRO/100+ support
<M> Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet support
<M> Intel(R) PRO/1000 PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet support
[*] Wireless LAN (ONLY if you disabled Wireless networking support above)
# Optional, required for VMware virtual machines
[*] Fusion MPT device support --->
<*> Fusion MPT ScsiHost drivers for SPI (used by VMware Player and Workstation by default)
SCSI device support --->
<*> SCSI device support
<*> SCSI disk support
<*> SCSI generic support
[*] Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device (optional, required for some memory cards and other usb storage)
# Optional, required for VMware virtual machines
[*] SCSI low-level drivers --->
< > BusLogic SCSI support (used by older VMware virtual solutions, can be optionally selected)
<*> VMware PVSCSI driver support (used by vSphere I think, but not by default, can be used by Player and Workstation too)
# Use lspci -k and look for "SATA or ATA controller" and its driver. Then select apropriate
# device down below.
#
# On my machine I have:
#
# 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
# Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1670
# Kernel driver in use: ahci
#
# Begin, Hardware dependent (S)ATA controller configuration
<*> Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers --->
[*] ATA ACPI Support
<*> AHCI SATA support
<*> Platform AHCI SATA support (both for the "ahci" driver)
[*] ATA SFF support (OPTIONAL for legacy IDE and PATA)
[*] ATA BMDMA support (both required for drivers below)
<*> Intel ESB, ICH, PIIX3, PIIX4 PATA/SATA support ("ata_piix" driver, also used in VMware virtual machines !!)
<*> Marvell SATA support ("sata_marvel" driver)
<*> NVIDIA SATA support ("sata_nvidia" driver)
<*> SiS 964/965/966/180 SATA support ("sata_sis" driver)
<*> VIA SATA support ("sata_via" driver)
<*> Generic ATA support ("ata_generic" driver, select it anyways if the machine has non-AHCI (S)ATA controller)
# Additionally, select any driver that's apropriate for your hardware and not on this list. The list contains the
# most commonly used desktop hardware nowadays.
# End hardware dependent (S)ATA controller configuration
Graphics support --->
<*> Direct Rendering Manager
[*] Labtop Hybrid Graphic - GPU switching support (!! ENABLE ONLY If you're using labtop with built-in graphic card !!)
< > ATI Radeon (!! ENABLE If you're using ATI Radeon graphic card !!)
<*> AMD GPU (!! ENABLE If you're using AMD CPU with GPU on CPU !!)
<*> Nouveau (NVIDIA) cards (!! ENABLE If you're using NVIDIA graphic card !!)
<*> Intel 8xx/9xx/G3x/G4x/HD Graphics (!! ENABLE If you're using Intel CPU !!)
<*> DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU
[*] Enable framebuffer console support under vmwgfx by default
< > Display Link (OPTIONAL !! If you have multiple monitors !!)
Backlight & LCD devices support --->
<*> Apple Backlight Driver (OPTIONAL !! If you're using iMac, Macbook to control brightness of display !!)
Frane buffer Devices --->
<*> Support for frame buffer devices
Console display driver support --->
-*- Framebuffer Console support
Sound card support --->
<*> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture --->
[*] PCI sound devices
< > (Creative) Ensoniq AudioPCI 1371/1373 (If you using creative !!)
<*> Intel/SiS/nVdia/AMD/ALi AC97 Controller
# Optional, required for booting from USB devices
# Begin USB configuration
[*] USB support --->
<*> Support for Host-side USB
<*> USB Monitor
# One or more of the USB controller drivers, hardware dependent. You can look in the "lsmod"
# output of your distro to figure out which one is loaded.
# Begin hardware specific part
<*> xHCI HCD (USB 3.0) support ("xhci_hcd" driver)
<*> EHCI HCD (USB 2.0) support ("ehci_hcd" driver)
<*> OHCI HCD (USB 1.1) support ("ohci_hcd" driver)
<*> UHCI HCD (most Intel and VIA) support ("uhci_hcd" driver)
# End hardware specific part
<*> USB Mass Storage support
# End USB configuration
File systems --->
# WARNING: It is important that you select the filesystem for your root and (optionally) /boot partition as "builtin",
# while the others can also be selected as "module"
<*> Second extended fs support (ext2)
[*] Ext2 extended attributes
[*] Ext2 POSIX Access Control Lists
[*] Ext2 Security Labels
[*] Ext2 execute in place support
<*> Ext3 journalling file system support (ext3)
[*] Default to 'data=ordered' in ext3
[*] Ext3 extended attributes
[*] Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists
[*] Ext3 Security Labels
<*> The Extended 4 (ext4) filesystem (ext4)
[*] Ext4 POSIX Access Control Lists
[*] Ext4 Security Labels
<*> JFS filesystem support (jfs)
[*] JFS POSIX Access Control Lists
[*] JFS Security Labels
<*> XFS filesystem support (xfs)
[*] XFS Quota support
[*] XFS POSIX ACL support
[*] XFS Realtime subvolume support
<*> Btrfs filesystem support (btrfs)
[*] Btrfs POSIX Access Control Lists
<*> Pseudo filesystems --->
[*] Tmpfs virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)
[*] Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists
# Additionally, any other filesystem not listed here.
# NOTE: Basic LFS install only contains filesystem check tools for ext{2,3,4} filesystems.
# It is a good idea to install the tools specific to other filesystems before first boot
# to avoid warnings and/or failures at boot.
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cscholz commented Oct 4, 2016

Can you share the final.config file? I've tried to build it but failed.

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