Re: Wheezy NSS...
Thank you very much, Jonathan. that helps a great deal. After I posted
my query to the list I did see that the shared kernel configuration was
not enabled in the build. I'll rebuild the kernel, following your
instructions, here tonight.
DJ
On 10/23/2012 10:45 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Dave Jones wrote:
>
>> Can the wheezy s390x kernel be saved as an NSS? If so, how?
>
> Based on [1], it looks like the answer is currently no, based on the
> following line in the kernel config file:
>
> # CONFIG_SHARED_KERNEL is not set
>
> The description of that option says
>
> Select this option, if you want to share the text segment of the
> Linux kernel between different VM guests. This reduces memory
> usage with lots of guests but greatly increases kernel size.
>
> You can build a custom kernel using that option if you wish. It works
> like this[2]:
>
> $ apt-get source linux
> # apt-get install build-essential fakeroot
> # apt-get build-dep linux
> $ cd linux-<version>
> $ fakeroot debian/rules source
> $ fakeroot make -f debian/rules.gen setup_s390_none_s390x
> $ cd debian/build/build_s390_none_s390x
> $ scripts/config --disable DEBUG_INFO
> $ scripts/config --enable SHARED_KERNEL
> $ cd ../../..
> $ fakeroot make -f debian/rules.gen binary-arch_s390_none_s390x
>
> Hope that helps,
> Jonathan
>
> [1] http://www.vm.ibm.com/linux/linuxnss.html
> [2] http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html
>
>
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Dave Jones
V/Soft Software
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