Bug#274939: How can editing a binary kernel be suggested?

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 12:13:06PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > How can this be suggested on an official packaged kernel?
> 
> Because the only alternative is to recompile.
> 
> > Asking an end user to binary-edit a kernel is mindless, from my point of view.
> 
> The most likely explanation for this point of view of yours is that
> you don't really know what you're talking about.  I'd be happy to help
> you change this, please tell me where to start.

Jens, i believe that he is indeed right in saying that suggesting to manually
edit a kernel is not a good idea. The only reason this is acceptable is that
no newbie enduser will ever try to install on prep hardware anyway, so this
should not be too problematic.

I still believe that mkvmlinuz could be adapted to recompile the one prep file
which contains the default command line, and then handle it properly. Will not
work for chrp though.

Notice that a default debian installs installs gcc anyway right now, so this
could not be a major problem.

Friendly,

Sven Luther