From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Craven Subject: Re: Custom kernel Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 15:59:52 +0100 Message-ID: References: <60c00abf5ceeeb6cfe571991f4969c87@mail.teknik.io> <87d1hafkr7.fsf@gnu.org> <87y3zma72y.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52634) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cG5cs-0005Tn-Mt for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2016 10:01:19 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cG5co-0003Fo-R3 for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2016 10:01:18 -0500 Received: from mail-qk0-f177.google.com ([209.85.220.177]:34585) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cG5co-00033k-MW for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2016 10:01:14 -0500 Received: by mail-qk0-f177.google.com with SMTP id q130so61485072qke.1 for ; Sun, 11 Dec 2016 07:00:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87y3zma72y.fsf@netris.org> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Mark H Weaver Cc: Dmitri Anikin , help-guix@gnu.org >> Currently =E2=80=98make-linux-libre=E2=80=99 is not public, but we could= probably make >> it public (David, WDYT?). In the meantime, in your own module, you can >> do. > I think we should avoid exporting 'make-linux-libre' in its current > form. Although it was an improvement in some ways over what we had > previously, I've found it to be an inadequate interface in many > respects, and in my opinion it needs to be redesigned. I don't have > time to make a case now, but in practice it leads to redundancy. I agree that there is room for improvement. But I don't think it's as easy as it may seem... > For example, when I recently added security fixes to linux-libre, I neede= d > to add the patches in two separate places, and every time I update the > version, I need to update two places as well. I believe this was on purpose to avoid having to rebuild two kernels every = time. I was impatient to get this stuff into master because my linux libre arm kernel wasn't building on the beagle bone black (not enough RAM). I think some more patience could have made things better =3DP