On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 08:17:08AM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2025, at 07:29, Efraim Flashner wrote: > > As the owner of several aarch64 and riscv64 machines, I can tell you > > that if they are running Guix System then I have them using the -generic > > kernel. > > Thanks for chiming in! > > This is basically the only feedback I get about these non-Intel platforms. > Please give an opinion: should we retire the non-generic kernels for these > platforms?
I feel so far out of my depth looking at the config options that I'm much happier just leaving it up to the kernel project itself to figure out some Sane Defaults™, and then I'd add any changes I'd need using our kernel config modifier options. I wouldn't want to cut off anyone else from those kernels though if they're using them. > I want users to take an active role in making decisions and support. As it is > now, it feels like I'm wasting my effort making configs for hardware that I > don't have and that nobody else seems to use. I believe Zheng Junjie (z572) uses a custom kernel config for the visionfive2 (riscv64). I also see in the linux kernel tree there's a arch/x86/configs/xen.config that I assume is a minimal kernel for configs running on top of a machine running Xen. I think it might be nice to offer something similar for running on a VPS, if it were possible to make something similar. I also see there's a arch/arm64/configs/virt.config and a kernel/configs/kvm_guest.config which might be interesting. -- Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted
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