On Wed, 2023-02-08 at 10:39 -0700, Stan Johnson wrote: > On 2/7/23 4:20 PM, Finn Thain wrote: > > > > On Tue, 7 Feb 2023, Stan Johnson wrote: > > ... > > Preventing pointless key generation would be beneficial for all Macs, > > Amigas, Ataris, emulators etc. and measuring the performance of one model > > of Mac versus that of another model seems a bit irrelevant to me. > > > > Sure, but unless Debian unsupported
What do you mean by »Debian unsupported«? You mean »Debian Ports«? > is willing to manage config files for the various systems, then it's > not likely to happen. I currently use separate config files for the > following Macs, to build kernels with no initrd, no modules, and only > minimal network and video support: > > 1) 68030 8 MiB, no network (PB-170) > 2) 68030 >8 MiB (SE/30, IIci, IIfx, Centris LC III, etc.) > 3) 68040 (Centris 650, PB 550c, etc.) Debian supports different kernel configuration per architecture, the concept is called »flavors«. We could certainly add a »-lean« or »-light« flavor for smaller systems. > If the stack smashing is caused by a kernel bug that is hidden by > Debian's choice of config options, then it would still be useful to > identify the bug. If there is something missing from my config files > that is causing the problem, then that would still be a kernel bug in > its sanity checking of options. Your script will be helpful if it > becomes necessary to identify specific offending options. FWIW, I haven't seen this issue on my Amiga although I haven't run a dist-upgrade for a while now. I guess, I am going to do that in the near future. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
