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

Thanks Hinnerk, I'm looking into this.

- Grant