From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 944991387D3 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 21:02:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8FBB1E092A; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 21:01:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f171.google.com (mail-wi0-f171.google.com [209.85.212.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6AE4BE0912 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 21:01:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f171.google.com with SMTP id hi2so1267944wib.16 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 14:01:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=g8vXkvF3Y1DXCr1zZHcF46wowNxw1qe3y01y6aKyvF8=; b=PiMhI1dhP25aiE65Cr3EmPKrOCClKQmJxNofl7l41kPkGL8CDLdnppW2FP9N1Ljc8J XoxO0nBoD9hRdjWaJAbNWbmcImXf71N0WVJMxy9ABXQgxsUWuKKLEc3uGRNAfDfTg6Xc yOo35Zp4O4VilBMvhwhunF1iAhiTh1xdctRin9RqFYCZ32qzDCVtzV7MfPftv2qhq/5C NiUug8V3tCL1s05Br5nTNzT9HGePGirBRSMjkN97OG4RxS9X9Fxo5lfkKwKHMxWuywYg OLoHqz/ss9bqIfmdusXUFlokx+kpOamUH+aY3MLfkcaDmn4u9wtMySXPv59rMpLROkoz dRzg== X-Received: by 10.194.48.116 with SMTP id k20mr18671900wjn.7.1414357317105; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 14:01:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.178.21] (pD952DB21.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [217.82.219.33]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id t16sm13254158wjr.44.2014.10.26.14.01.56 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 26 Oct 2014 14:01:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <544D6144.1050305@googlemail.com> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 22:01:56 +0100 From: Volker Armin Hemmann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels References: <544D4FB6.3030701@googlemail.com> <544D51E6.6030302@alectenharmsel.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: fb414fad-a402-45c5-80ff-468db1d6b04b X-Archives-Hash: cf0c2826a411bc052dcc0c16a04ac2d4 Am 26.10.2014 um 21:16 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel > wrote: >> On 10/26/2014 03:47 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> Am 26.10.2014 um 20:09 schrieb Alexander Kapshuk: >>>> I've been using gentoo-sources for a while now. >>>> >>>> I remember reading on this list about some users using alternative >>>> kernels on their gentoo systems. My understanding is that amongst some >>>> of the other alternatives, besides the genkernel, which I'm not >>>> interested in using, are vanilla-sources available in the portage >>>> tree, and the sources available on kernel.org. >>>> I'd appreciate being given some pointers on how the folk here maintain >>>> their alternative kernels. >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> . >>>> >>> I let portage update the vanilla-sources and once in a while a build and >>> install a new kernel. At the moment I am on 3.12.23. Maybe I install >>> 3.12.30 tonight. If I find a good reason to do so. >>> >> What happens when you run `emerge --depclean`? >> >> I always un-keyword the exact version of vanilla-sources that I'm >> running since I update and depclean on a weekly basis. I'm not a huge >> fan of having a bunch of kernels under /usr/src/linux-* but only having >> a couple of them compiled, but to each his own I guess. > I have sys-kernel/vanilla-sources in package.keywords, unversioned. So > depclean cleans away the older versions, and I keep the latest one. > > I'm on 3.17.1 right now, but the moment 3.17.2 comes out I will switch > to it in all my machines: with kerninst is all of it mostly > automatized. > > And with systemd, rebooting to a new kernel takes just a few seconds ;) > > Regards. and without systemd, rebooting to a new kernel takes just a few seconds too. Keep your stupid propaganda to yourself. Thank you. As long as most time of a boot is spend by the bios, it really does not matter if the init system needs 1.5 seconds until X starts or 2.5 seconds.