Autoconfiguration bus/ic/high level kernel options conf/files arch/myarch/conf/files.myarch bus attachments/bus specific drivers dev/mybus/files.mybus MI kernel configuration conf/GENERIC MD kernel configuration arch/myarch/conf/GENERIC MD install kernel configuration arch/myarch/conf/RAMDISK config(8) generates a compilation directory for us based on the autoconfig definations in the kernel we are compiling. The configuration can be modified by at boot time (get into UKC by boot -c) or by using config -e on an existing kernel.