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Author: karl
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities
Daniel Reurich:
> 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


kernel.devuan.org ?

Though it will depend of if and who will set it up.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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