On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 03:17:44PM +0200, Mario Marietto via Dng wrote:
> Did you read my post ? I can't use kernel 5.10 on my Arm Chromebook. The

You can't use any 5.10 kernel? Or just not any precompiled kernel?

Is it Debian that dropped support for you CPU? Or did kernel.org abandon
it upstream?

-- hendrik

> latest version that I can use is 5.4. Despite this,my question is :
> Can I use a preconfigured 5.4 kernel config file and use it to recompile
> the (5.4) kernel for Devuan ? I need a kernel config file that already has
> inside all the options enabled to enable the iptables and the nftables and
> the bridge. Where can I find it ? If I grab the 5.4 source code from
> kernel.org I will grab only the source code or also the kernel config file ?
>
> On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 7:59 AM tito via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 19 Aug 2023 01:01:30 +0200
> > Mario Marietto via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello to everyone.
> > >
> > > What am I trying to do ? I have enabled Kvm for armhf on my ARM
> > Chromebook
> > > with the kernel 5.4. Now I'm trying to configure iptables and nftables by
> > > manually selecting every necessary entry inside the kernel file needed to
> > > enable those features. I need to do this to configure a network that I
> > will
> > > use with qemu with the aim to virtualize FreeBSD 13.2 for arm on the
> > > Chromebook.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately I have recompiled the kernel several times,but I couldn't
> > get
> > > iptables or nftables to work. It seems very complicated to reach the goal
> > > using this approach.
> > >
> > > The closest (for my needs) precompiled kernel I found for Devuan is the
> > > 5.10,present by default on the Devuan 4. But I can't use it,because the
> > > support for kvm for armhf has been removed on the kernel 5.7. So,I've
> > been
> > > forced to grab an older kernel. For sure,Devuan uses a kernel version
> > lower
> > > than 5.10,but it is not shipped on Devuan 4,but on Devuan 3...and it is
> > too
> > > low. Furthermore,Devuan 3 is much older than 4 and I don't want to use
> > it.
> > >
> > > So I've got an idea : If I get the kernel 5.4 config file of Ubuntu for
> > > armhf and then I use it with the devuan 4,can this approach work ? I know
> > > that Ubuntu has a release,more or less it is 20.04,that I can install on
> > a
> > > different sd card and then I can extract the kernel config file and I
> > > should hope that it is already configured for the iptables and / or the
> > > nftables. For sure that kernel file will not be configured for enabling
> > > kvm,but this step is easier.
> > >
> > > Can this approach work ? thanks.
> >
> > Hi,
> > ever thought of using the source from kernel.org? e.g. longterm:
> > 5.10.191.
> >
> > I use some script like this (untested) to compile it:
> >
> > #! /bin/sh
> > arch=x86_64
> > SRCDIR=YOURDIR
> > cd $SRCDIR
> > CONFIG="/path/to/config.yours"
> > cp -f $CONFIG "$SRCDIR/.config"
> > echo "REMOVE CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYS"
> > ./scripts/config --set-val CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYS \"\"
> > echo "REMOVE CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO"
> > ./scripts/config --set-val CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO n
> > grep CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYS .config
> > make oldconfig
> >
> > # add the configs you need
> > ./scripts/config --set-val CONFIG_THAT_YOU_NEED y
> > make oldconfig
> >
> > make -j4 bindeb-pkg LOCALVERSION=-custom
> >
> > the result will be 3 debs that you can install e.g.:
> >
> > linux-headers-5.10.191-custom_5.10.191-custom-53_amd64.deb
> > linux-image-5.10.191-custom_5.10.191-custom-53_amd64.deb
> > linux-libc-dev_5.10.191-custom-53_amd64.deb
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> > Ciao,
> > Tito
> >
> >
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>
> --
> Mario.

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