From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92255C433EF for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2022 09:31:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S243192AbiCTJc1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Mar 2022 05:32:27 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:39790 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S235912AbiCTJcX (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Mar 2022 05:32:23 -0400 Received: from gnuweeb.org (gnuweeb.org [51.81.211.47]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CB8102DAB5 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2022 02:30:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (unknown [88.235.220.59]) by gnuweeb.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B19977E2BC; Sun, 20 Mar 2022 09:30:55 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=gnuweeb.org; s=default; t=1647768658; bh=ygkrm1RT86tyG8j/iRFsG6RBtkprW94+sdWpA72M23g=; h=Subject:From:To:Cc:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=iRorJ7lpwjGI+5bAXnD11w50y3D0M4kIeiuKV11AUxq5EwUATViGgDdmJy2RYcXLq hpDaPpc5u3oIyAOdjcEIR9IJlVKq2m49l24ORVZ4Y9Cc8JCPk3hTNExeJZ2YI16bLw L7ixiy8sEFON+dzXkkf1DwSpWJ9UGJsda+0cG2+xoRzK4PJkWYkZv2vrHOyo/ZJsyv eHI+3pgFd3OrW9UErrviJRaw3EBlbqJoOmWp48WVZrdWMLsAA30HQ4GHJKMDt6RFg7 BVvq632iyyrMCi1f8AjzJM/DHUAYyZO93yq4N2bGfumqgCTcHJfvI1/8HzwoKnEZNU RFt7kAuHiVpDw== Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] boot install: Partially refactor the logic for detecting bootloader From: Beru Shinsetsu To: Borislav Petkov Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Dave Hansen , x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, GNU/Weeb Mailing List , Alviro Iskandar Setiawan Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2022 12:30:51 +0300 In-Reply-To: References: <20220316173221.5937-1-windowz414@gnuweeb.org> <2E28CA0C-34F2-4985-86CC-B1823AF8D747@alien8.de> <7b4f98d92a57af35c927aef6c85373f8eeeab29c.camel@gnuweeb.org> <221F34C3-C3E0-4401-BEF2-422F11BF8324@alien8.de> <9fa42069edf92d0ca7d64e967e1b9c0030d9a6ec.camel@gnuweeb.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" User-Agent: Evolution 3.42.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2022-03-19 at 22:20 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 04:46:48PM +0300, Beru Shinsetsu wrote: > > > Well, I saw this on SLE15-SP4 (brand new) yesterday while I haven't > > > seen it on previous service packs. So this doesn't look like it has > > > been there since 2007. I'll try to debug it when I get a chance. > > > > Hmm alright. Good luck from now! Hope everything goes flawlessly. > > Here it is: > > From arch/x86/boot/install.sh: > > ... > # User may have a custom install script > > if [ -x ~/bin/${INSTALLKERNEL} ]; then exec ~/bin/${INSTALLKERNEL} "$@"; fi > if [ -x /sbin/${INSTALLKERNEL} ]; then exec /sbin/${INSTALLKERNEL} "$@"; fi > ... > > so distros *usually* should supply a custom, distro-specific > installkernel script which does that. The distros which you are seeing > it on simply don't have that script installed and I need to talk to > distro people as to what the rule there is for supplying such a script > now. > > Because most distros should supply it though and those new distros > dropping it looks like some new "strategy" or so. > > We'll see. I have seen that, and I had pretty much the same thoughts as well. Arch isn't quite new either. And as I said, installing from AUR works pretty fine (package is `linux-mainline`, it also compiles the kernel on *your* PC locally, then installs it as a PacMan package). Just compiling manually doesn't. I suppose that's one of the quirks of the distro being installed manually by the user from the very first stage. Not even counting Gentoo though, I haven't tried it out as I'm scared it can explode my laptop as it *compiles the whole system locally*. But let's see how it goes. Thank you so much by the way! -- Beru Shinsetsu