Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

["Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
<volkerarmin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am 26.10.2014 um 21:16 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés:
>> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel
>> <alec@alectenharmsel.com> 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.

Yeah Volker, whatever you say. You always make me laugh.

> Keep your stupid propaganda to yourself. Thank you.

You are free to stop reading me if you want. Me? I want to keep
reading you, you are hilarious, specially how do you think I will do
anything  you'll say. Funny, funny guy. Keep it up.

> 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.

Actually, with UEFI fastboot and Gummiboot, the kernel starts to boot
in just a couple of seconds. But, as with many other things you say,
is obvious you don't know what you are talking about, so believe
whatever you want.

I'll just keep laughing at you.

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México