On 2016-09-23 16:02, James McMechan wrote:
What patches were you thinking are needed for a live CD?
I would expect that either a vanilla or gentoo kernel would handle
being on a live CD without problems.
What is giving you trouble that you are aiming for 4.8-rc6, I have not
seen many problems. Though the most recent gentoo live CD will hang
one of my machines due to radeon driver in the 3.14.14 kernel not
accessing
I/O correctly ( it did not use the access functions just dereferenced
a pointer).
The only other quirk I remember off the top of my head is the 2nd
required
initramfs that the netboot kernel target needs, but even that works
with a empty file.
On sparc64, rsync and ssh are broken due to fault addresses containing
extra context data that is used incorrectly higher in the kernel. For
installation purposes, rsync and ssh are quite important. This is fixed
in 4.8, but i ended up just taking that patches out of 4.8 and applying
them to 4.7.4 via epatch user.
