On Tuesday, May 2, 2017 at 3:00:07 PM UTC-4, Reg Tiangha wrote:
> 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 lost me SCSI subsystem, you mean like firmware drivers?  and cryptopgraphy 
system?  no idea.  but sounds very interesting, I appreciate your time.

Also if I install all that stuff in my system. Shouldn't I then make sure to 
uninstall it all, or at least disable all those compilers I installed for 
security reasons?  We might need a guide on how to do that too.

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