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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] hardened-sources shrinks Processor Family list
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:03:09
Message-Id: CAN0CFw3CwaVUgZGkuDUgEDVFbBu43UfCW_GwTy-_L+KTs-+JBA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] hardened-sources shrinks Processor Family list by Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
1 > > I noticed the Processor Family list is much smaller in hardened-sources
2 > > than in other kernels, even with CONFIG_GRKERNSEC disabled. Is that an
3 > > unavoidable side-effect of the patches, or can I enable/disable
4 something
5 > > to bring the full list back?
6 > >
7 > > - Grant
8 >
9 > Hi Grant,
10 >
11 > what exactly do you mean? If I compare hardened sources and latest git
12 > (from Linus) I get the same 5 options with an x86_64. It's much less
13 > compared to make ARCH=x86 menuconfig but I don't think that that's
14 > depending on hardened or not but on a guess by menuconfig (or better the
15 > Kconfig stuff) that if I use a 64 bit userland I'll need a 64 bit kernel
16 > to support it.
17 >
18 > Hope that helps..
19 >
20 > WKR
21 > Hinnerk
22
23 You're right, I tested a few more kernels and I only get the long list of
24 processor families when I use geek-sources from the init6 overlay. So
25 geek-sources doesn't know I'm using a 64-bit CPU and the other kernels do?
26 Can I fix geek-sources in this regard?
27
28 - Grant

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Re: [gentoo-hardened] hardened-sources shrinks Processor Family list Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruinehsen@×××××××××.de>