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Re: Custom kernel
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David Craven |
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Re: Custom kernel |
Date: |
Sun, 11 Dec 2016 15:59:52 +0100 |
>> Currently ‘make-linux-libre’ is not public, but we could probably make
>> it public (David, WDYT?). In the meantime, in your own module, you can
>> do.
> I think we should avoid exporting 'make-linux-libre' in its current
> form. Although it was an improvement in some ways over what we had
> previously, I've found it to be an inadequate interface in many
> respects, and in my opinion it needs to be redesigned. I don't have
> time to make a case now, but in practice it leads to redundancy.
I agree that there is room for improvement. But I don't think it's as
easy as it may seem...
> For example, when I recently added security fixes to linux-libre, I needed
> to add the patches in two separate places, and every time I update the
> version, I need to update two places as well.
I believe this was on purpose to avoid having to rebuild two kernels every time.
I was impatient to get this stuff into master because my linux libre
arm kernel wasn't building on the beagle bone black (not enough RAM).
I think some more patience could have made things better =P
Re: Custom kernel, Dmitri Anikin, 2016/12/05