On 02/27/2013 01:52 PM, Jon wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:21 AM, William Cohen <wcohen@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:wcohen@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > On 02/27/2013 11:51 AM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > > Is it advisable to build my own kernel for the Chromebook? I glanced > > through the IRC chat from last week and saw a note about kernels. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > arm mailing list > > arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm > > > > I built a local version of the kernel because I needed some additional options enabled in the kernel (kprobes and debuginfo) so I could test out systemtap on the chrome book. If the existing kernel works for you, why spend the time on building you own local kernel? > > -Will > > > Darryl, > > I would advise you build your own kernel. > > The upstream chromeos-3.4 contains many fixes, including the audio fix so you do not risk melting the speakers. > I would also advise you enable audit_syscall. > Enabling the PERF stuff is also a good idea. There have been a number of corrections and improvements in the git repo kernel, but the earlier comment was kind of the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." It takes a little while to set things up and build the kernel and install it. Daryl, if you need help to set it up I can help you. > > William has a great kernel doc on his people page that goes over this stuff. http://people.redhat.com/wcohen/chromebook/chrome_kernel.txt I wished that we had a srpm setup for the chromebook git kernel, then could point people at the koji build. However, need to have the uboot built for chromebook also need vboot-utils. -Will _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
