[gentoo-soc] kernelconfig - progress report #10

[gentoo-soc] kernelconfig - progress report #10

[André Erdmann]

Hi everyone,


== Brief summary of this project ==

kernelconfig is about generating kernel configuration files,
using various sources such as curated defconfigs, detected hardware,
installed packages and user input.

The project's code can be found at [0].


== This week's progress ==

This week's work has been about extending hardware detection.

Creation of files necessary for "modalias"-based hardware detection has
been added. Basically, "make allmodconfig && make modules" is run to create
all modules, and the desired "modules.alias" file is then created with depmod.
Since this takes a lot of time to compile, it is not done automatically.
Instead, kernelconfig offers a command for creating "modalias" files,
and tries to use previously created files (depending on e.g. kernel version).

A "hardware collector" shell script has been written,
which allows to detect required/useful kernel modules on another machine
than the one configuring/building the kernel.
The idea here is to run this script on a live system (practically
anything with a few busybox applets), and feed kernelconfig with the data.


== Plans for the next week ==

* write documentation for "hardware detection"

* start with "pm integration",
  so far there is a draft-doc [1] on what could be done


[0] https://github.com/dywisor/kernelconfig
[1] https://github.com/dywisor/kernelconfig/blob/2f4ceefc79d2ca677e63537ade42d6bff10d0e00/doc/rst/draft/pmintegration.rst

Regards,
André E.