Quoting Gordan Bobic <[email protected]>: > On 05/24/2011 07:27 PM, Alexander Boström wrote: >> mån 2011-05-23 klockan 15:15 +0100 skrev Gordan Bobic: >> >>> What I'm pondering now is something like a dkms package for the >>> cryptodev kernel module, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that >>> dkms is a non-Fedora RHEL thing. What do you guys think would be the >>> best way to approach it, especially since we don't have "standard" >>> kernels at the moment? >> >> It's probably a lot easier to just patch your kernel build (or ask >> whoever builds your kernel to do it). Then you won't need kernel build >> tools installed on your little arm device. > > I really don't think that's a big deal. Cryptodev module takes seconds > to build, and even if you are building your own kernel, it means you can > just install the new kernel, and the new module with automatically be > built for it. So it still saves effort.
I think this is a bigger deal then you assume. I sure as heck don't want a compiler sitting on my embedded device facing the outside world or on my desktop system, just the same as I don't put a compiler on a production server system either. It is just as easy to compile a rootkit as it is a dkms. Embedded also has space at a premium and dev tools and libraries can eat up space. _______________________________________________ arm mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
