Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic <dan...@scratchpost.org> skribis:
>> So, I can think of the following ways to address that: >> >> 1. Remove for example *.c, assuming the out-of-tree modules we package >> only care about *.h + build machinery. > > The biggest source files, see above, are header files > (drivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg). > >> 2. Don’t add all of the Linux source to the store, or at least not >> under a new name each time. One way to do that would be to unpack >> the Linux-libre tree within the build tree of the out-of-tree >> module. We’d be reducing GC stress at the expense of a >> (reasonable?) increase in module build time. [...] > I checked--that would reduce the size of linux-libre-builder by about 800 MB > (to 255 MB; see [1][2]). > That would mean that some modules can't be out-of-tree. But I guess > that's okay--and we could not-delete some files later if need be. Yes, that’s OK. I’d say let’s delete as much as possible, and then, if it eventually turns out to be a problem for a new out-of-tree module package, we can re-add files selectively. Could you give it a try? > Btw, linux-libre is currently not reproducible--see bug 43301. > That could introduce a security problem if the Linux kernel and > an out-of-tree module are compiled differently (they are) and then loaded > into the same kernel (even now). One thing at a time. :-) Thanks, Ludo’.
