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Title: Libre Kernel Gentoo USE Flag and Fixes
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Author: Yuan Liao <liaoyuan@gmail.com>
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Posted: 2023-03-01
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Revision: 1
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News-Item-Format: 2.0
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The latest libre-kernel ebuild (6.1.2) has been revised to support a new
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gentoo USE flag, as well as fixes to the kernel configuration version.
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The new USE flag applies a subset of the Gentoo kernel patchset (from
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the gentoo-kernel package) to the Linux-libre kernel source. Most of the
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patches apply, but the larger patchsets for the kernel do not, in many
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cases because it seems like those patches have already been applied to
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the upstream source.
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Applying of the Gentoo kernel patchset is controlled by the new local
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USE flag gentoo. It is enabled by default. The USE flag can be disabled
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by turning it off in /etc/portage/package.use:
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sys-kernel/libre-kernel -gentoo
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Note: whether or not the USE flag is enabled, the patch for the default
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Gentoo kernel configuration will always be applied.
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Additionally, the Gentoo kernel config version has been fixed in the r1
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ebuild. The kernel configuration applied was being used from a 5.x
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build. In the future, the correct kernel config version will follow the
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gentoo-kernel package.
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