Re: Debian initramfs/initrd, was Re: stack smashing detected

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

On Wed, 2023-02-08 at 10:39 -0700, Stan Johnson wrote:
> On 2/7/23 4:20 PM, Finn Thain wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 7 Feb 2023, Stan Johnson wrote:
> > ...
> > Preventing pointless key generation would be beneficial for all Macs, 
> > Amigas, Ataris, emulators etc. and measuring the performance of one model 
> > of Mac versus that of another model seems a bit irrelevant to me.
> > 
> 
> Sure, but unless Debian unsupported

What do you mean by »Debian unsupported«? You mean »Debian Ports«?

> is willing to manage config files for the various systems, then it's
> not likely to happen. I currently use separate config files for the
> following Macs, to build kernels with no initrd, no modules, and only
> minimal network and video support:
> 
> 1) 68030 8 MiB, no network (PB-170)
> 2) 68030 >8 MiB (SE/30, IIci, IIfx, Centris LC III, etc.)
> 3) 68040 (Centris 650, PB 550c, etc.)

Debian supports different kernel configuration per architecture, the concept
is called »flavors«. We could certainly add a »-lean« or »-light« flavor
for smaller systems.

> If the stack smashing is caused by a kernel bug that is hidden by
> Debian's choice of config options, then it would still be useful to
> identify the bug. If there is something missing from my config files
> that is causing the problem, then that would still be a kernel bug in
> its sanity checking of options. Your script will be helpful if it
> becomes necessary to identify specific offending options.

FWIW, I haven't seen this issue on my Amiga although I haven't run a
dist-upgrade for a while now. I guess, I am going to do that in the
near future.

Adrian

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