Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Mipsel gNS 3 + crypto

[Sam Geeraerts]

Ted Smith schreef:
> On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 23:04 +0200, Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> > Ted Smith schreef:
> > > The kernel has no crypto support compiled in, and the modules for crypto
> > > support aren't in the initramfs or even in the gNewSense package.
> > We pull in what linux-libre.fsfla.org provides.
> I mean, the kernel has support for all of those things; they just
> weren't included in the binary or in the initrd as modules provided. The
> build seems to have been custom-rolled by Robert Milan.

Netboot files: yes; regular kernel is Linux-libre.

> In fact, it seems so custom-rolled that 'apt-get source
> linux-image-2.6.31.6-libre1' is an impossible command on my system.

I haven't looked at our Linux-libre repo section in detail, but I 
believe the source is provided in linux-source-xxx debs rather than the 
usual tar.gz+.dsc way.

> > > Further, it was very difficult to find the source package for the
> > > linux-image-2.6.31.6-libre1 package, and I don't even know if it's
> > > possible to find the source for the netboot image I downloaded off of
> > > the gNewSense servers. Could anyone point me to that?
> > As said before, the netboot image was created before we had our metad 
> > code under VCS. At the time we were happy that we could get the distro 
> > booted and didn't worry too much about the source. We don't have the 
> > source to the netboot image. This must be fixed.
> Yikes. Is that even GPL-compliant?

Well, *cough* as I said: this must be fixed.

> > > I think the best solution would be to try to rebuild the initramfs with
> > > a more recent kernel, since the 2.6.33 kernel builds have all the
> > > modules I need. I'm not sure if the partitioner will recognize that, but
> > > if it doesn't I can go from there.
> > Your findings will be appreciated.
>
> I'll post them here as soon as I have them, and/or document them on the
> wiki depending on how much energy for this I have.

Thanks.