Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

[Alexander Kapshuk]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> On 26/10/2014 22:21, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel
>>> <alec@××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 10/26/2014 03:47 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>>>>> Am 26.10.2014 um 20:09 schrieb Alexander Kapshuk:
>>>>>> I've been using gentoo-sources for a while now.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I remember reading on this list about some users using alternative
>>>>>> kernels on their gentoo systems. My understanding is that amongst some
>>>>>> of the other alternatives, besides the genkernel, which I'm not
>>>>>> interested in using, are vanilla-sources available in the portage
>>>>>> tree, and the sources available on kernel.org.
>>>>>> I'd appreciate being given some pointers on how the folk here maintain
>>>>>> their alternative kernels.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> .
>>>>>>
>>>>> I let portage update the vanilla-sources and once in a while a build and
>>>>> install a new kernel. At the moment I am on 3.12.23. Maybe I install
>>>>> 3.12.30 tonight. If I find a good reason to do so.
>>>>>
>>>> What happens when you run `emerge --depclean`?
>>>>
>>>> I always un-keyword the exact version of vanilla-sources that I'm
>>>> running since I update and depclean on a weekly basis. I'm not a huge
>>>> fan of having a bunch of kernels under /usr/src/linux-* but only having
>>>> a couple of them compiled, but to each his own I guess.
>>>
>>> I have sys-kernel/vanilla-sources in package.keywords, unversioned. So
>>> depclean cleans away the older versions, and I keep the latest one.
>>>
>>> I'm on 3.17.1 right now, but the moment 3.17.2 comes out I will switch
>>> to it in all my machines: with kerninst is all of it mostly
>>> automatized.
>>>
>>> And with systemd, rebooting to a new kernel takes just a few seconds ;)
>>>
>>> Regards.
>>> --
>>> Canek Peláez Valdés
>>> Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
>>> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
>>>
>>
>> Do you know if vanilla-sources plays well with openrc, as that is what I use?
>> Thanks.
>
>
> Yes it does. There's no logical reason to think it doesn't.
>
> You do have to set some kernel options, but that is true for just about
> everything in the kernel - you won't have support for hardware X unless
> you enable hardware X in the kernel config :-)
>
> One of the additions with gentoo-sources is the very first menu item,
> all it does is enable a bunch of stuff that supported init systems
> (openrc and systemd) use - it's purely a convenience measure and doesn't
> change the kernel itself per se. systemd for example will need cgroups
> enabled, openrc needs udev-mount. It's all in the ebuild, and portage
> throws an error is something required is not set in .config.
>
>
>
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com
>
>

Terrific. Thanks.