On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 01:22:21PM -0800, Grant wrote:
> > > I noticed the Processor Family list is much smaller in hardened-sources
> > > than in other kernels, even with CONFIG_GRKERNSEC disabled.  Is that an
> > > unavoidable side-effect of the patches, or can I enable/disable
> something
> > > to bring the full list back?
> > >
> > > - Grant
> >
> > Hi Grant,
> >
> > what exactly do you mean? If I compare hardened sources and latest git
> > (from Linus) I get the same 5 options with an x86_64. It's much less
> > compared to make ARCH=x86 menuconfig but I don't think that that's
> > depending on hardened or not but on a guess by menuconfig (or better the
> > Kconfig stuff) that if I use a 64 bit userland I'll need a 64 bit kernel
> > to support it.
> >
> > Hope that helps..
> >
> > WKR
> > Hinnerk
> 
> You're right, I tested a few more kernels and I only get the long list of
> processor families when I use geek-sources from the init6 overlay.  So
> geek-sources doesn't know I'm using a 64-bit CPU and the other kernels do?
>  Can I fix geek-sources in this regard?
> 
> - Grant

I don't know geek-sources. I'd guess it will have a "hacked" buildsystem
that takes aleast some of the "autodetection" of the normal buildsystem
away. You could try to make a diff to see differences (especially the
Kconfig files). The easiest way will most likely be to contact the
author of geek-sources and try to find out, if the geek-part may be that
you have to configure such things manually instead of autoconfig... ;)

WKR
Hinnerk

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