Re: Information for the Kernelnewbies Outreachy Docs

[Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 01:24:17PM -0300, brunodout.dev@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> As     Roopa suggested me on IRC yesterda, I am sharing some
> info    that could be updated in the KernelNewbies Outreachy
> tutorial.  Some instructions for Arch(/Arch based) users and
> possibly    other minimalist VM setups (I run a minimal arch
> install  on a small filesystem for each kernel tree, and all
> space necessary to build the kernel I use virtiofs).
> 
> I will try to enumerate them:

These sound very useful. Can you update the wiki yourself:

From the https://kernelnewbies.org/Outreachyfirstpatch :

'To edit the wiki, create an account, and then send an email to
the outreachy@lists.linux.dev with the subject "[KERNEL NEWBIES ACCESS]
username", where username is your kernel newbies username.'

Someone on list, with edit privileges can grant you edit privilege
and then you can do it yourself. 

Thanks!
Alison

> 
> REQUIREMENTS
> 
> 1. cpio
> A    non-minimalist install will likely have cpio on it, but
> case    it doesn't you'll likely get a tricky error when the
> build   system runs kernel/gen_kheaders.sh. (sorry, I didn't
> save the output, but the error code is 127)
> Perhaps the script also needs a better error message
> 
> Cpio     requirement is also missing in the kernel compiling
> docs[1].
> 
> 2. ncurses5
> This one isn't missing but it's outdated. It says arch users
> must       build it, but actually the arch available package
> 'ncurses'     (version 6) worked for me so far (at least for
> targets like menuconfig, which I believe to be the reason of
> this requirement, right?)
> 
> 3. Possibly python3
> I    was following the tutorial for the staging kernel tree,
> and      ran `make` to build the kernel (I usually run `make
> bzImage`      followed by `make modules`, like usual in 2005
> LOL),  and  got  an  error  that  python3  wasn't  found.  I
> installed  python but then switched back to my old procedure
> and      it worked. I'm not sure if the default target isn't
> doing    something else, since re docs[1] also don't mention
> python3 as a requirement.
> 
> ARCH PACKAGE NAMES
> 
> Arch  packages  are  not  as  much  granular       as  other
> distributions, so some packages will be differently named. I
> have listed them just in case anyone feels stuck:
> 
> 1. gitk => already contained in: git
> 2. git-email => already contained in: git
> 3. esmtp => libesmtp
> 
> REFERENCES
> [1] https://docs.kernel.org/process/changes.html
> 
> 
> I        hope it becomes helpful for other applicants and to
> improve the docs.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Bruno | Pronouns: they/them/theirs
> IRC: CodeAgain
>