Enable KVM support in the Linux kernel #443
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This updates the Linux kernel configuration, removing irrelevant networking-related components, and switching framebuffer drivers to the DRM-based ones. With this, we can finally bootstrap on systems with newer NVIDIA cards, which would green screen with the nvidiafb driver. KVM is still disabled, see fosslinux#443 - VIRTUALIZATION is also disabled, as it's useless without KVM or any other suboption being enabled. Additionally, we can now drop the bad-asm patch, since our newer binutils has no problem supporting that syntax, and it doesn't look quite innocuous to me, removing an offset from a memory access. The kernel is now built in 2 stages: first, we build vmlinux only, then, after cleaning up any intermediate .o files (except the ones needed to build efistub), we convert it to a bzImage. This required some creative use of the -o option to convince Make not to rebuild all of the .o files we've just deleted as dependencies.
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This updates the Linux kernel configuration, removing irrelevant networking-related components, and switching framebuffer drivers to the DRM-based ones. With this, we can finally bootstrap on systems with newer NVIDIA cards, which would green screen with the nvidiafb driver. KVM is still disabled, see fosslinux#443 - VIRTUALIZATION is also disabled, as it's useless without KVM or any other suboption being enabled. Additionally, we can now drop the bad-asm patch, since our newer binutils has no problem supporting that syntax, and it doesn't look quite innocuous to me, removing an offset from a memory access. The kernel is now built in 2 stages: first, we build vmlinux only, then, after cleaning up any intermediate .o files (except the ones needed to build efistub), we convert it to a bzImage. This required some creative use of the -o option to convince Make not to rebuild all of the .o files we've just deleted as dependencies.
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From #442: "KVM, unfortunately, doesn't compile with our current toolchain; I tried to patch it out, with no luck. It causes
undefined reference to `__compiletime_assert___COUNTER__'errors at the final link, and unlike drm_edid, this doesn't seem to be patchable just by removing BUILD_BUG_ONs."This issue is for tracking and solving that compile error.
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