Question about Kernel

[Jingwen Ye]

I just want to modify chromimum_kernel_5_10, completed step is shown in below

- Added some patches in chromiumos/src/third_party/chromiumos-overlay/sys-kernel/chromeos-kernel-5_10/chromeos-kernel-5_10-9999.ebuild

The questions are :

1. In above path, there is an another ebuild file: chromeos-kernel-5_10-5.10.111-r1825.ebuild, what is the difference between 9999 and r1825? Which file will be used during kernel compiling?

(Based on my resaerach on Google, 9999 is "live" but I cannot understand the meaning of "live". But after my edition, I could see patched are installed from the log. However, I am still confused with the connection among these files)

2. Can someone tell me where is the file(or bash) that contains the information about compiling the kernel? I just want to confirm which instruction calls ebuild.

3. What I need to do for the next step is modifying config. Luckly, I found the bash (kernelconfig). However, I am confused that my edition using kernelconfig will be kept forever(In another word, when I run ./build_img, will the edition of kernel be removed or saved)? This question seems to have connection with 2nd Question. 

[Harry Cutts]

Hi,

Have you read through the Kernel Development page in the docs? That should contain all the information you need for modifying and compiling the Kernel.

[Jingwen Ye]

Thanks, guy

After reading the instruction, I learned the ebuild knowledge. My tasks about patches completed by adding 

PATCHES=(

    "${FILESDIR}"/rtc.patch

    "${FILESDIR}"/acpi_uart.patch

    "${FILESDIR}"/iommu.patch

    "${FILESDIR}"/dmac_iommu_wa.patch

)

to chromeos-kernel-5_10-9999.ebuild and I saw these patches are added by reading the log

14:53:05 >>> Preparing source in /build/amd64-generic/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/chromeos-kernel-5_10-5.10.111-r1825/work/chromeos-kernel-5_10-5.10.111 ...

  [32;01m* [0m Applying acpi_uart.patch ...

[A [198C [34;01m[ [32;01mok [34;01m ] [0m

  [32;01m* [0m Applying dmac_iommu_wa.patch ...

[A [198C [34;01m[ [32;01mok [34;01m ] [0m

  [32;01m* [0m Applying iommu.patch ...

[A [198C [34;01m[ [32;01mok [34;01m ] [0m

  [32;01m* [0m Applying rtc.patch ...

[A [198C [34;01m[ [32;01mok [34;01m ] [0m

>>> Source prepared.

Is it correct? 

The next step is modifying kernel config. Based on my knowledge, I need to run make menuconfig to change the config on Linux. In Chromium OS, I found a script 

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/how-tos-and-troubleshooting/kernel-configuration/

to edit the config manully. But this is not an ideal method. Does chromium OS provides an auto-run method about config edit? (Just like adding PATCHES to 9999.ebuild file instead of manully installing patches on Linux. )

Would you like to give me some hints?

[Brian Norris]

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/HEAD/kernel_development.md#Kernel-configuration
->
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/overlays/chromiumos-overlay/+/HEAD/eclass/cros-kernel/README.md

That tells you how you can specify your own .config (via
CHROMEOS_KERNEL_CONFIG). Or if you really want a "patch"-like
approach, you can use the "config fragments" described here:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/overlays/chromiumos-overlay/+/0231ecbaf9379061044c8495a9029bd47ca82c4d/eclass/cros-kernel2.eclass#154

Heed the warnings, and realize you're accepting some fragility, as
config patching is a bit hard to maintain, given a changing Kconfig
dependency tree over time.

Brian

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