>From: alexmcwhir...@triadic.us <alexmcwhir...@triadic.us> >Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 3:48 PM >To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: [gentoo-dev] Patching vanilla-sources with genpatches in catalyst > >For my sparc64 port, i need a livecd with kernel 4.8-rc6 that is patched >to work on a livecd. I'm not going to expect gentoo-sources to be
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. >released for this kernel, and hacking up the kernel eclass for 4.8-rc6 >doesn't seem like the right way to go. So i was looking for some input >on the best way to do this. > >The first thing that comes to mind is to make a vanilla-sources ebuild >for 4.8-rc6 and use that in the spec file. Then after doing a Are you following some set of instructions on building stages and a live CD? >livecd-stage1 put the genpatches in /etc/portage/patches/... and let the >epatch_user interface take care of the rest. > >Does anyone have any better ideas? > Jim McMechan
