Hi We talked about this in our last team meeting. We identified some questions and also some concerns.
On Wed, Jul 09, 2025 at 07:43:35PM +0200, Yunseong Kim wrote: > I believe having an easily selectable debug-enabled kernel would be a > significant > benefit for users, particularly during board bring-up or when troubleshooting > kernel-related issues. I’d love to hear your thoughts on whether this might > be a > direction worth exploring. Yes, this might be useful for troubleshooting. I don't yet understand how it would be useful for board bring-up, I would assume this usually requires code changes. This would also mean we can overall disable many debug options in the normal kernel. > As a potential reference point, Fedora’s approach to debug kernel > configuration > could be quite helpful. Their debug-config is available in the Rawhide branch: > Link: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/kernel/tree/rawhide Sadly this does not look like it actually includes source. I sincerely doubt that they modify all those config files by hand this way. But you can deduct some things. Mainly they enable - many DEBUG options, - many DEBUGFS options, - some CONFIGFS options, and - some handpicked things. Fedora installs the debug kernel as it would any other. But somehow they manage to reduce the priority. Problems for Debian current are as follows: - We have size constraints on our software builders, so right now we just can't build it. - We can not make sure it is not used by default. Regards, Bastian -- Vulcans never bluff. -- Spock, "The Doomsday Machine", stardate 4202.1
