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Auteur: Daniel Reurich
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Aan: karl, dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities
On 06/01/16 07:55, karl@??? wrote:
> Rainer Weikusat:
> ...
>> The sensible way to handle this is really "the distribution ships a
>> kernel which optionally supports everything" (via aggressive
>> modularization) and people who think they want/ need more control over
>> this part of the system can change that as they see fit (by compiling a
>> custom kernel). Insofar someone feels his custom kernel is of more
>> general use than just "run on this machine", the configuration could be
>> shared via internet. It's even failrly easy to share the kernel itself:
>> I posted a script I've been using since 1998 to build kernels for
>> different machines on a dedicated one and for someone who likes "shot
>> from behind trough the chest right into the eye" constructions, there's
>> always kernel-package for creating custom-kernel Debian packages.
>
> Building the kernel is easy, tools are provided (later kernels have a
> deb-pkg target), choosing configuration is the hard part.
>
> Would it be sensible for devuan to set up a user contrib site where one
> can upload kerlnels and or configs, together with reasons why that
> config is choosen ?
>

Sure, how about talk.devuan.org



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