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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Patching vanilla-sources with genpatches in catalyst
From:       alexmcwhirter () triadic ! us
Date:       2016-09-24 4:37:02
Message-ID: dd13110b999793a2ba1e15c10d99b08d () triadic ! us
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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.

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