I've downloaded a kernel binary which I am using now. In order to use the watchdog on my system I must recompile the kernel with watchdog support. Is it possible to obtain the current kernel configuration of the binary?The binary is obtained from this page. I've used version R5.
Find or create kernel configuration of kernel binary
kernel;configuration
If the kernel config is not distributed in /boot/config-* or available at /proc/config.gz, it is nearly impossible to get it. As Alex wrote, they could also have patched the kernel and included proprietary drivers.But because the kernel is under GPLv2, the owner of the site where you download the binaries, have to give you the corresponding configuration including the source code they used to compile it. In the case you get problems, contact gpl-violations.org.