build custom kernel (to get >= 3.18) - Githubissues

max-mapper / HyperOS

A 50MB linux distribution that has dat-container for booting live containers on mac OS

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build custom kernel (to get >= 3.18) #1

Open max-mapper opened 9 years ago

max-mapper commented 9 years ago

tinycore x86_64 supports kernel 3.16 by default and doesnt provide newer prebuilt kernels at the moment. to get overlayfs we need 3.18 or newer

theres an introduction to doing this here http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:custom_kernel
boot2docker does this https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker/blob/master/Dockerfile
they have a custom kernel_config but i'm not sure how they manage it https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker/blob/master/kernel_config

overlayfs is just an optimization so this isn't blocking anything, it would just be a nice-to-have

yoshuawuyts commented 8 years ago

The latest version of alpine is built on >=3.18, if a switch was made this would come for free.