Re: [gentoo-hardened] hardened-sources shrinks Processor Family list

[Grant]

>> > > I noticed the Processor Family list is much smaller in hardened-sources
>> > > than in other kernels, even with CONFIG_GRKERNSEC disabled.  Is that an
>> > > unavoidable side-effect of the patches, or can I enable/disable
>> something
>> > > to bring the full list back?
>> > >
>> > > - Grant
>> >
>> > Hi Grant,
>> >
>> > what exactly do you mean? If I compare hardened sources and latest git
>> > (from Linus) I get the same 5 options with an x86_64. It's much less
>> > compared to make ARCH=x86 menuconfig but I don't think that that's
>> > depending on hardened or not but on a guess by menuconfig (or better the
>> > Kconfig stuff) that if I use a 64 bit userland I'll need a 64 bit kernel
>> > to support it.
>> >
>> > Hope that helps..
>> >
>> > WKR
>> > Hinnerk
>>
>> You're right, I tested a few more kernels and I only get the long list of
>> processor families when I use geek-sources from the init6 overlay.  So
>> geek-sources doesn't know I'm using a 64-bit CPU and the other kernels do?
>>  Can I fix geek-sources in this regard?
>>
>> - Grant
>
> I don't know geek-sources. I'd guess it will have a "hacked" buildsystem
> that takes aleast some of the "autodetection" of the normal buildsystem
> away. You could try to make a diff to see differences (especially the
> Kconfig files). The easiest way will most likely be to contact the
> author of geek-sources and try to find out, if the geek-part may be that
> you have to configure such things manually instead of autoconfig... ;)
>
> WKR
> Hinnerk

It turns out the extra choices are due to this patch:

https://github.com/init6/init_6/blob/master/sys-kernel/geek-sources/files/3.7.1/fix/kernel-37-gcc47-1.patch

I'm sorry to have bothered the hardened list with this.

- Grant