* Coming up with a generic kernel config
@ 2014-06-25 19:26 Ludovic Courtès
2014-06-25 19:48 ` Sree Harsha Totakura
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2014-06-25 19:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-libre; +Cc: guix-devel
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Hello,
In trying to get a generalist kernel config with Linux-Libre 3.15 for
the GNU system (via GNU Guix), I thought I’d start from ‘allmodconfig’.
Then I figured there are several issues:
1. Serial console is unavailable when booting. I thought that’d be
addressed by explicitly setting CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y etc. (see
below for the list), but that’s not enough. What am I missing?
2. A whole bunch of test suites that run at startup are enabled by
‘allmodconfig’ (and not ‘defconfig’.) I’ve explicitly added =n
options to disable some of them, but it seems there are still some
lying around. Any idea whether/how these could be systematically
turned off?
For reference, below is my current patch.
Please let me know if this is off-topic.
(And apologies for being such a noob.)
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
index 841ec58..03411d8 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/linux.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
@@ -20,11 +20,14 @@
;;; along with GNU Guix. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
(define-module (gnu packages linux)
+ #:use-module (guix utils)
#:use-module ((guix licenses)
#:hide (zlib))
#:use-module (gnu packages)
#:use-module ((gnu packages compression)
#:renamer (symbol-prefix-proc 'guix:))
+ #:use-module ((gnu packages openssl)
+ #:renamer (symbol-prefix-proc 'guix:))
#:use-module (gnu packages flex)
#:use-module (gnu packages bison)
#:use-module (gnu packages gperf)
@@ -158,10 +161,47 @@
`insmod', `lsmod', and more.")
(license gpl2+)))
+(define-syntax-rule (string-append* rest ...)
+ "Compile-time string concatenation."
+ (compile-time-value (string-append rest ...)))
+
(define-public linux-libre
(let* ((version "3.15")
+ (common-options
+ (string-append*
+ ;; Require support for loadable modules.
+ "CONFIG_MODULES=y\n"
+ ;; Disable drivers not for this platform.
+ "CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST=n\n"
+ ;; Disable various test suites.
+ "CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST=n\n"
+ "CONFIG_RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST=n\n"
+ "CONFIG_KGDB_TESTS=n\n"
+ "CONFIG_KGDB_TESTS_ON_BOOT=n\n"
+ "CONFIG_DEBUG_NMI_SELFTEST=n\n"
+ ;; FIXME: Try to make sure we can use 'console=ttyS0' early on.
+ "CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE=y\n"
+ "CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y\n"
+ "CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE=y\n"
+ "CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CS=y\n"
+ "CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PCI=y\n"
+ "CONFIG_PARPORT=y\n"
+ "CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y\n"
+ "CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL=y\n"
+ "CONFIG_NETCONSOLE=y\n"
+ "CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y\n"
+ ;; Disable some of the debugging facilities.
+ "CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL=n\n"
+ "CONFIG_MEMTEST=n\n"
+ "CONFIG_USB_DEBUG=n\n"
+ "CONFIG_DEBUG_DEVRES=n\n"
+ "CONFIG_DEBUG_NX_TEST=n\n"
+ "CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE=n\n"
+ "CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW=n\n"
+ ;; https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-04/msg00039.html
+ "CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES=y\n"))
(build-phase
- '(lambda* (#:key system #:allow-other-keys #:rest args)
+ `(lambda* (#:key system #:allow-other-keys #:rest args)
(let ((arch (car (string-split system #\-))))
(setenv "ARCH"
(cond ((string=? arch "i686") "i386")
@@ -169,27 +209,15 @@
(format #t "`ARCH' set to `~a'~%" (getenv "ARCH")))
(let ((build (assoc-ref %standard-phases 'build)))
- (and (zero? (system* "make" "defconfig"))
+ ;; We take options (1) from 'allmodconfig', and (2) from our
+ ;; own set of options. When concatenating option lists, the
+ ;; last one wins.
+ (and (zero? (system* "make" "allmodconfig"))
(begin
;; Appending works even when the option wasn't in the
;; file. The last one prevails if duplicated.
(let ((port (open-file ".config" "a")))
- (display (string-append "CONFIG_NET_9P=m\n"
- "CONFIG_NET_9P_VIRTIO=m\n"
- "CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK=m\n"
- "CONFIG_SATA_SIS=y\n"
- "CONFIG_VIRTIO_NET=m\n"
- "CONFIG_SIS190=y\n"
- ;; https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-04/msg00039.html
- "CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES=y\n"
- "CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI=m\n"
- "CONFIG_VIRTIO_BALLOON=m\n"
- "CONFIG_VIRTIO_MMIO=m\n"
- "CONFIG_FUSE_FS=m\n"
- "CONFIG_CIFS=m\n"
- "CONFIG_9P_FS=m\n"
- "CONFIG_E1000E=m\n")
- port)
+ (display ,common-options port)
(close-port port))
(zero? (system* "make" "oldconfig")))
@@ -226,17 +254,26 @@
(build-system gnu-build-system)
(native-inputs `(("perl" ,perl)
("bc" ,bc)
- ("module-init-tools" ,module-init-tools)))
+ ("module-init-tools" ,module-init-tools)
+
+ ;; OpenSSL is used to sign modules.
+ ("openssl" ,guix:openssl)))
(arguments
`(#:modules ((guix build gnu-build-system)
(guix build utils)
(srfi srfi-1)
- (ice-9 match))
+ (ice-9 match)
+ (ice-9 rdelim))
#:phases (alist-replace
'build ,build-phase
(alist-replace
'install ,install-phase
(alist-delete 'configure %standard-phases)))
+
+ ;; Shrink all the .ko files. With just --strip-debug, the whole thing
+ ;; is twice as big (350 MiB vs. 160 MiB.)
+ #:strip-flags '("--strip-all")
+
#:tests? #f))
(synopsis "100% free redistribution of a cleaned Linux kernel")
(description
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* Re: Coming up with a generic kernel config
2014-06-25 19:26 Coming up with a generic kernel config Ludovic Courtès
@ 2014-06-25 19:48 ` Sree Harsha Totakura
2014-06-25 20:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Sree Harsha Totakura @ 2014-06-25 19:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: guix-devel
On 06/25/2014 09:26 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> 1. Serial console is unavailable when booting. I thought that’d be
> addressed by explicitly setting CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y etc. (see
> below for the list), but that’s not enough. What am I missing?
My kernel config has the following for serial console:
CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PNP=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_DMA=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PCI=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_EXTENDED=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_MANY_PORTS=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_SHARE_IRQ=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RSA=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE=y
Sree
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* Re: Coming up with a generic kernel config
2014-06-25 19:48 ` Sree Harsha Totakura
@ 2014-06-25 20:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-06-27 4:20 ` Mark H Weaver
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2014-06-25 20:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Sree Harsha Totakura; +Cc: guix-devel
Sree Harsha Totakura <sreeharsha@totakura.in> skribis:
> On 06/25/2014 09:26 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> 1. Serial console is unavailable when booting. I thought that’d be
>> addressed by explicitly setting CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y etc. (see
>> below for the list), but that’s not enough. What am I missing?
>
> My kernel config has the following for serial console:
> CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD=y
> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y
> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PNP=y
> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE=y
> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_DMA=y
> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PCI=y
> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_EXTENDED=y
> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_MANY_PORTS=y
> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_SHARE_IRQ=y
> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RSA=y
> CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE=y
> CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE=y
The one I built has all these as well. :-/
Ludo’.
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* Re: Coming up with a generic kernel config
2014-06-25 20:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
@ 2014-06-27 4:20 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-06-27 9:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Mark H Weaver @ 2014-06-27 4:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ludovic Courtès; +Cc: guix-devel
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Sree Harsha Totakura <sreeharsha@totakura.in> skribis:
>
>> On 06/25/2014 09:26 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>> 1. Serial console is unavailable when booting. I thought that’d be
>>> addressed by explicitly setting CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y etc. (see
>>> below for the list), but that’s not enough. What am I missing?
>>
>> My kernel config has the following for serial console:
>> CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD=y
>> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y
>> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PNP=y
>> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE=y
>> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_DMA=y
>> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PCI=y
>> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_EXTENDED=y
>> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_MANY_PORTS=y
>> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_SHARE_IRQ=y
>> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RSA=y
>> CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE=y
>> CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE=y
>
> The one I built has all these as well. :-/
I think you need to pass something like "console=ttyS0" as a kernel
command line option. See Documentation/serial-console.txt in the
linux-libre source tree.
Mark
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* Re: Coming up with a generic kernel config
2014-06-27 4:20 ` Mark H Weaver
@ 2014-06-27 9:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2014-06-27 9:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mark H Weaver; +Cc: guix-devel
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Sree Harsha Totakura <sreeharsha@totakura.in> skribis:
>>
>>> On 06/25/2014 09:26 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>>> 1. Serial console is unavailable when booting. I thought that’d be
>>>> addressed by explicitly setting CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y etc. (see
>>>> below for the list), but that’s not enough. What am I missing?
>>>
>>> My kernel config has the following for serial console:
>>> CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD=y
>>> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y
>>> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PNP=y
>>> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE=y
>>> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_DMA=y
>>> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PCI=y
>>> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_EXTENDED=y
>>> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_MANY_PORTS=y
>>> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_SHARE_IRQ=y
>>> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RSA=y
>>> CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE=y
>>> CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE=y
>>
>> The one I built has all these as well. :-/
>
> I think you need to pass something like "console=ttyS0" as a kernel
> command line option.
Yes, of course. :-) When I wrote serial console is unavailable, I meant
it’s unavailable when I pass ‘console=ttyS0’.
Ludo’.
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