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On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se> wrote: |
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> Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> having a standardized kernel with a few flags probably isn't a bad idea. |
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> That doesn't scale at all. Suggest instead take a .config as input to |
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> the emerge, maybe something like savedconfig for busybox, and add |
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> shortcuts for common options. |
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> That way, the same mechanism can be used for arbitrarily complex |
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> configurations too. |
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The intent would be to have all non-mutually-incompatible options |
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enabled as modules and an accompanying initramfs. That's what every |
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single other distro does - it works reasonably well. USE flags might |
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be used for any odd situations that can't be covered in this way |
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(though I can't think of any offhand - odd situations are probably |
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handled best with a manual build). |
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If you're just going to feed it a .config file then you might as well |
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use genkernel - the idea is to be bulletproof. Just emerge the |
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package and run grub-install and you have a bootable system. |
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Rich |
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