How to handle Kernel with a Binary Host

[Pipeng]

Hi all!, I'm looking on mount a binary host for my laptop, from all the things above that, there is one in particular I can't found.

How do we handle the kernel? The kernel is compiled with genkernel using the config we want (lets skip the already compiled ones), so here comes the issue, to fully have a binary server, also needs to compile the kernel on the server, I found we can use Distcc for this task, just... is there any other options? Like compile in the server, and then just retrieve the new ones to install?

Thx!

[sam_]

Why not make a binpkg of sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel?

[Pipeng]

How that can be performed automatically?

the idea is use the custom kernel config/modules and microcodes.

Edited: Maybe I'm confused, does gentoo-kernel actually compiles with genkernel? so any change can be done there and the binpkg will be the same as using gentoo-sources?

[sam_]

sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel builds the kernel like a regular package. It does not use genkernel. See https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Distribution_Kernel.

A binpkg can be made and installed of it like any other package.

[Pipeng]

mm, seems very useful, just there is some options I can't found.

From generkernel I use 3 options, parallel compilations, maybe it uses the same make options as make.conf. Firmware folder to be added, and the microcodes ones.

The latest two things, can't found info about them... how can be customized?

[sam_]

The customisation is described in the wiki page I linked. gentoo-kernel builds using your regular make.conf CFLAGS and parallelisation and so on.

The firmware and microcode is handled via Dracut.

[Pipeng]

I'm checking dracut, it has a lot of options for modules, but for microcodes, it only allows to include all of them.... no info how to choose the microcodes to use....

Is there anywhere to look info for that?

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[AndrewAmmerlaan]