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Re: Kernel features and Cloud (and GCE)

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On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 03:37:08PM +0200, Emanuele Rocca wrote:
> > So we have the problem that the Debian cloud kernel supports some, but
> > not all, of the devices our shared users need, and we’re not sure of
> > the right way to solve that. We wondered if we should switch the
> > images to the generic kernel, or if there’s a way we could help the
> > cloud kernel support more clouds, or if there’s a better solution we
> > haven’t thought of.
> 
> I think the best approach is enabling the needed modules one by one in
> the cloud image following the procedure above.

Andrew's question is a bit higher level than that, and mostly boils down
to "Which cloud environments do we actually want to support with the
cloud kernel?"

We have declined requests to enable modules in the cloud kernel in the
past, referring people to the standard kernel instead (see e.g.
#969140).  See also the previous discussion at
#https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2020/04/msg00006.html

We have not, as far as I can recall, ever explicitly stated a policy
around this, nor have we documented what it would take for us to support
more fine-grained kernel builds (i.e. what stops us from generating a
kernel image targeting *only* GCP).

noah

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Kernel features and Cloud (and GCE) Andrew Jorgensen <ajorgens@google.com> - 2024-05-22 17:10 +0200
  Re: Kernel features and Cloud (and GCE) Emanuele Rocca <ema@debian.org> - 2024-05-27 15:40 +0200
    Re: Kernel features and Cloud (and GCE) Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> - 2024-05-27 17:50 +0200
  Re: Kernel features and Cloud (and GCE) Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2024-05-27 21:10 +0200
  Re: Kernel features and Cloud (and GCE) Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> - 2024-05-28 17:20 +0200
    Re: Kernel features and Cloud (and GCE) Andrew Jorgensen <ajorgens@google.com> - 2024-05-29 18:20 +0200

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