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Re: Custom kernel
From: |
Mark H Weaver |
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Re: Custom kernel |
Date: |
Sun, 11 Dec 2016 14:58:31 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) |
I wrote:
>> For example, when I recently added security fixes to linux-libre, I needed
>> to add the patches in two separate places, and every time I update the
>> version, I need to update two places as well.
David Craven <address@hidden> responded:
> I believe this was on purpose to avoid having to rebuild two kernels
> every time.
My understanding is that most stable kernel updates contain security
fixes. In any case, upstream has a deliberate policy of refusing to
specify which updates are security-critical, so we must assume that they
all are. I'm not comfortable leaving non-Intel kernels with unpatched
security flaws.
> I was impatient to get this stuff into master because my linux libre
> arm kernel wasn't building on the beagle bone black (not enough RAM).
> I think some more patience could have made things better =P
Yes, of course, that makes sense. I very much appreciate your work on
this.
Thanks,
Mark
Re: Custom kernel, Dmitri Anikin, 2016/12/05