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+    <note os="kc"><para>A good starting place for setting up the kernel
+    configuration is to run <command>make defconfig</command>. This will set the    base configuration to a good state that takes your current system
+    architecture into account.</para>
+
+    <para>Be sure to enable or disable following features or the system might
+    not work correctly or boot at all. Refer to
+    <filename>/usr/share/doc/systemd-&systemd-version;/README</filename>:</para>
+
+    <screen role="nodump">General setup  ---&gt;
+  [*] open by fhandle syscalls
+  [ ] Auditing support
+  [*] Control Group support
+Processor type and features  ---&gt;
+  [*] Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode
+Networking support  ---&gt;
+  Networking options  ---&gt;
+    &lt;*&gt; The IPv6 protocol
+Device Drivers  ---&gt;
+  Generic Driver Options  ---&gt;
+    ()  path to uevent helper
+    [*] Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev
+    [ ] Fallback user-helper invocation for firmware loading
+File systems  ---&gt;
+  [*] Inotify support for userspace
+  &lt;*&gt; Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)
+  Pseudo filesystems  ---&gt;
+    [*] Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists
+    [*] Tmpfs extended attributes
+Firmware Drivers ---&gt;
+  EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) Support ---&gt;
+    &lt;*&gt; EFI Variable Support via sysfs
+-*- Enable the block layer ---&gt;
+  Partition Types ---&gt;
+    [*] Advanced partition selection
+    [*]   EFI GUID Partition support
+Kernel Hacking ---&gt;
+  [*] Collect scheduler debugging info
+  [*] Collect scheduler statistics</screen></note>
+
+    <note os="kd"><para>While "The IPv6 Protocol" is not strictly required, it
+    is highly recommended by the Systemd developers. "EFI Variable support" and
+    "EFI GUID Partition support" are for UEFI systems. "Collect scheduler
+    debugging info" and "Collect scheduler statistics" is for systemd-bootchart.
+    </para></note>
+
     <para os="h">Configure the kernel via a menu-driven interface.
-    Please note that the udev bootscript requires "rtc", "tmpfs" and "devtmpfs" to be
-    enabled and built into the kernel, not as modules. CBLFS has
-    some information regarding particular kernel configuration requirements of
-    packages outside of CLFS at <ulink
+    CBLFS has some information regarding particular kernel configuration
+    requirements of packages outside of CLFS at <ulink
     url="&cblfs-root;"/>:</para>