Using upstream kernels...

[dom at latter.org]

I thought I'd see if I could get Ubuntu 9.04 to run on top of 2.6.32,
(vaguely hoping to fix various video issues).

I've compiled and booted it, but networking doesn't work.  Further
investigation reveals that there's only about seven modules, and the
kernel config is set to build everything into the kernel.  But
surprisingly the custom kernel isn't *that* much bigger than a
typical Ubuntu one:
  3968128 2010-02-08 17:14 bzImage-2.6.32.custom
  3491824 2010-01-28 04:29 vmlinuz-2.6.28-18-generic

Is that because it's bzip not gzip?  I'd have thought the kernel
would be a lot bigger with all the modules compiled in.