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PostPosted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 3:41 am    Post subject: Status of 3.x hardened-sources for ppc64? Reply with quote

Can anybody say whether / when the 3.x hardened-sources ebuild(s) will be marked stable for ppc64?

Are there any serious problems with these kernels, or is it just a matter of few people using this on ppc64?

Thanks for any info.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 1:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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is it just a matter of few people using this on ppc64?


more than probably, ppc doesnt have enough manpower right now.
I would say, give it a try and if it works for you, open a bug with your experience.

( Will tell the mods to move this to ppc, hopefully you get more answers there).

cheers
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 1:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moved from Kernel & Hardware to Gentoo on PPC.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 3:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

gringo wrote:
I would say, give it a try and if it works for you, open a bug with your experience.

Okay, hardened-3.1.5 compiled using my existing working config, installed in /boot, yaboot.conf updated and yabin run, the new kernel label is present at boot...
...but it refuses to boot the new kernel even though I type in the new image label! It boots to the existing #1 kernel.

Is there anything in yaboot that would cause it to boot to kernel #1 when you type in the label for kernel #5? Is this a symptom of a problem in the kernel? Or is yaboot doing something screwy?

yaboot.conf:
Code:
## Change `unconfigured' to your bootstrap partition eg: /dev/hda2
boot=/dev/sda2

## device is the OpenFirmware device path to the disk containing
## kernel images.  if your disk is /dev/hda you can find the
## OpenFirmware path by running the command: ofpath /dev/hda DO NOT
## specify a partition number for this!  On IBM hardware you can
## generally comment this out.

device=hd:

## partition is the partition number where the kernel images are
## located.  The kernel images should be on your root filesystem, so
## this is usually the same partition number as your root filesystem.
## so if root = /dev/hda3 (the 3rd partition) then you should have
## partition=3  This *MUST* be set correct or yaboot won't boot!  This
## option can be either set globally as shown here, or per image in
## the image= sections

partition=4

## delay is the amount of time in seconds the dual boot menu (if one
## is configured, by the presense of macos, macosx, etc options here)
## will wait before choosing the default OS (GNU/Linux or the value of
## defaultos=).  If you omit this then the value of timeout=
## (converted to seconds) will be used.

delay=10

## timeout is the amount of time in tenths of a second that yaboot
## will wait before booting the default kernel image (the first image=
## section in this config file or the value of default=).

timeout=40
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot

## Change the default colors, fgcolor is the text color, bgcolor is
## the screen background color. (default: fgcolor=white, bgcolor=black)
#fgcolor=black
#bgcolor=green

## Password supplied in plaintext, required for yaboot to boot, unless
## restricted is also present (see below). Be sure to
## chmod 600 /etc/yaboot.conf if you set this!

#password=secret

## Password supplied as an md5 hash, see above

#password=$1$saltstrg$HnJ/gcM3oKhNbnzUPgXTD/

## A password is only required to boot an image specified here if
## parameters are specified on the command line or if the user enters
## an image is not specified in the configuration file at all (ie.
## arbitrary file load).  restricted can also be placed in an image
## section in that case any image not including the restricted keyword
## will be fully password protected.

#restricted

## image is the kernel itself, commonly kept in / but also commonly
## found in /boot.  Note that /boot should generally not be its own
## partition on powerpcs, its not necessary and complicates things.
## Make sure /boot is on the partition specified by partition= see
## above.  /boot should never be an HFS filesystem.  You may point
## image= to a symbolic link so long as the symlink does not cross
## partition boundries.

image=/boot/vmlinux-2.6.36-hardened-r9
   label=linux.hardened
   root=/dev/sda4
   partition=4
   read-only

image=/boot/vmlinux-2.6.37-gentoo-r4
   label=linux
   root=/dev/sda4
   partition=4
   read-only

image=/boot/vmlinux-2.6.37-gentoo-r4-knowngood
   label=linux.good
   root=/dev/sda4
   partition=4
   read-only

image=/boot/vmlinux-2.6.36-hardened-r9-knowngood
   label=linux.good.hardened
   root=/dev/sda4
   partition=4
   read-only

image=/boot/vmlinux-3.1.5-hardened
   label=linux.test.hardened
   root=/dev/sda4
   partition=4
   read-only

image=/boot/G5
   label=linux.installcd
   root=/dev/sda4
   partition=4
   initrd=/boot/G5.igz
   read-only

enablecdboot
enableofboot
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 9:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
the new kernel label is present at boot...
...but it refuses to boot the new kernel even though I type in the new image label! It boots to the existing #1 kernel.


beats me ... really have no clue.
Open a bug and hopefully someone of the toolchain or hardened team can reproduce the problem and help you out.

good luck !
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 8:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

...okay, this is embarrassing. I neglected to update the kernel symlink but I thought I had. I actually was recompiling and installing 2.6.whatever. D'oh! :oops:

So, now I am actually compiling 3.1.x, and I'm getting fatal errors. Sorry for the false alarm about yaboot.
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