On 05/02/2017 12:41 PM, cooloutac wrote: > I too would have trouble compiling kernel for fedora too. I only know how > to do it with debian using make-kpkg which is much easier. > The Qubes kernel build scripts actually make it very easy; assuming you have all the software dependencies installed, you just need to run 'make rpms.' The tricky part is the qubes-kernel-vm-support package has yet to make it down to fc23 stable yet, so there's still some manual configuration that needs to be done to get 4.9+ to compile on that template. Hopefully, that'll fix itself within a week or whenever the next batch of current-testing stuff migrates over to stable and things will just work out-of-the-box. Of course, you can grab it yourself by temporarily enabling the current-testing repo on an fc23 build template.
But my hope is to have that nicely-formatted kernel compile write-up done by the end of this week; I'm not sure how much free time I'll have past this week leading into July to work on this stuff so my hope is that more people will feel empowered to compile their own kernels and to share their results to see if everyone can find more kernel config options that can be trimmed out while still having the kernel work on a variety of hardware. For me, each compile-install-test cycle takes about 20-40 minutes on the laptop I use to test (longer if I actually compile the kernel on it; my desktop is way faster), so there's diminishing returns on my end in regards to time spent in trying to finesse more options to disable by testing them out one-at-a-time. But if everyone were to do a little bit on their own and compare their results, then maybe things would move a bit faster. Personally, I'd like to know how much of the SCSI subsystem or deprecated ciphers in the Cryptography system could be cut out and still have things work, but again, I don't have much more free time to work on this stuff. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/oeakv5%24b9b%241%40blaine.gmane.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
