Quoting Gordan Bobic <gordan(a)bobich.net>:
On 05/24/2011 07:27 PM, Alexander Boström wrote:
> mån 2011-05-23 klockan 15:15 +0100 skrev Gordan Bobic:
>
>> What I'm pondering now is something like a dkms package for the
>> cryptodev kernel module, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that
>> dkms is a non-Fedora RHEL thing. What do you guys think would be the
>> best way to approach it, especially since we don't have "standard"
>> kernels at the moment?
>
> It's probably a lot easier to just patch your kernel build (or ask
> whoever builds your kernel to do it). Then you won't need kernel build
> tools installed on your little arm device.
I really don't think that's a big deal. Cryptodev module takes seconds
to build, and even if you are building your own kernel, it means you can
just install the new kernel, and the new module with automatically be
built for it. So it still saves effort.
I think this is a bigger deal then you assume. I sure as heck don't
want a compiler sitting on my embedded device facing the outside world
or on my desktop system, just the same as I don't put a compiler on a
production server system either. It is just as easy to compile a
rootkit as it is a dkms. Embedded also has space at a premium and dev
tools and libraries can eat up space.