Google Home Mini vs. Amazon Echo Dot 3 – December 2018

Posted on December 19, 2018 by Robbie Ferguson

They cost the same. They look similar. They boast the same features. They use up the same amount of desk space. So… Which is better leading into 2019? Okay, Google or Alexa?

This month, I set out to answer the question: Which is better? Okay, Google, or Amazon Alexa?

For roughly the price of a Bluetooth speaker, you can have one that also responds to your questions, plays music without having to use your phone or other player, and can even turn on and off lights and other smart home devices if you add some accessories, which are also surprisingly affordable.

In order to provide an accurate and unbiased comparison of the two devices, I wrote a query script and endeavoured to stick to it. This query script was written to try to demonstrate the capabilities of each device with an accurate comparison. Some are for the kids’ entertainment (farts, jokes), while others are very much for our use (shopping list, controlling smart devices). Others can be enjoyed by all (playing music).

Here is the query script we used, and the results of each query:

Fart: Alexa farted. Okay, Google did not.
Tell me a joke: Both devices told a dad joke.
Is Crème Brûlée made of custard: Both provided an accurate answer.
Turn on/off the light: Both worked perfectly with our smart powerbar. The word “light” was programmed via the powerbar’s app. It can be set to whatever you like: “Turn on the Christmas tree lights”, for example. The powerbar we use has 4 outlets and each can be programmed and controlled independently of one another.
Play some Christmas music: Both played Christmas music even though we do not have accounts on Amazon Music of Google Music.
Who is this artist: Both responded to this query accurately.
Skip this song: Both devices skipped the playing song.
Play music by TheFatRat: Both were able to play music by artist name, even though we do not have that music on our devices, nor do we have accounts with Amazon Music nor Google Music.
Remind me in 5 minutes to make coffee: Alexa did this perfectly, reminding us 5 minutes later that it was time to make coffee. Okay, Google however simply told us there was a reminder. We’d have to look at our phone to know what that reminder was. Okay, Google does state you can change settings, but our test was of the out-of-box experience, and at this, Okay, Google failed, while Alexa worked as expected, and actually impressed us with its ability to remind us verbally of what we’d asked.
What’s the forecast today: Both devices responded to this query, though the data provided differed between them.
What time will the sun go down tonight in Barrie: Both responded with an accurate answer to this query.
What’s 5 x 32.5 divided by 2: Both responded to this query with the mathematical answer, 81.25.
How much does an Amazon Echo Dot cost: Alexa quoted us a very low price. It was referring to the old 2nd generation device. Okay, Google however, quoted us the correct product (3rd generation) and price. Because I’d expect to find the most current version of any product as the top result, Alexa fails where Okay, Google passes on this one.
Find a Starbucks near me: Both devices found the closest Starbucks.
How long will it take me to get to Starbucks: Both determined how long it would take, though Okay, Google apparently drives a lot faster. Interestingly, Okay, Google also pinged my phone with a notification which launches the map to take me there.
Sing me a song: Both AI’s were able to sing. Neat!
Add cookies to my shopping list: Both devices did this perfectly.
Remove cookies from my shopping list: Alexa did this exactly as you’d expect: removed the cookies we just added from the list. Surprisingly however, Okay, Google was not able to do this “yet” – which makes me think it is a coming feature in a future firmware update. Though it did mention you can change privacy settings and so-on, but why should I have to change privacy settings to remove something from a shopping list that I had just added to using the same device? Google failed. Alexa passed with flying colors, impressing us again.
What’s the temperature outside: Both were able to tell me this based on weather services (ie., I don’t have an outdoor smart thermometer).
What’s the temperature in the house: Both devices correctly reported the temperature from my NEST thermostat at home.

And here are some observations I’ve made after using both devices side-by-side for 3 days:

There’s one thing I actually hate about Google Home Mini. I want to be able to take my smart speaker with me. When I leave home, I take it to the studio to listen to music. During the Christmas season, I bring it to work to listen to Christmas music in the office. Then I bring it home at night. The Amazon Echo Dot 3 handled this fine: I can add my studio WiFi to the device and it connects and works. Then when I take it home, it connects to the home network, no having to re-configure. The Google Home Mini on the other hand, you have to remove the WiFi network before you leave one location, otherwise you cannot connect to the WiFi at your destination. True story. If I am using Google Home Mini at home and simply pack it up and take it to the studio, it will not work. I can make it work by actually deleting the Google Home Mini from my app and resetting it and re-adding it as a new device. Seriously? On the other hand, if I delete the WiFi from the Google Home Mini before packing it up, I can connect to the destination WiFi, but then if I forget to delete it when leaving there, it won’t work at home when I return that night. Amazon Echo Dot 3 wins this hands down, as the WiFi works as it should. The connectivity of the Google Home Mini absolutely sucks. It’s meant to be installed at one location, and left there. If you plan to move your device around at all or take it with you, go with Amazon’s product.
Both devices have a button to turn off mic. Google Home Mini has a mute switch on its side. Amazon Echo Dot has a mute button on top. I thought this would be good for privacy, but find I use it more to prevent my kids from stopping my music to setup reminders for the device to fart.
The mute toggle on the Amazon Echo Dot is way better than that of the Google Home Mini. I know, this is a bit knit-picky, but it stands to be noted: you have to pick up the Google Home Mini to mute it. Amazon’s Echo Dot 3, you just tap the botton on the top. This just feels like a design fail to me on the Google Home Mini. The switch feels like it was made to be big and tactile (and hard to switch) as a way of screaming from the rooftop “Look, you can mute my mic and have privacy! I’m not spying on you!” It comes across as awkward and a bit annoying. To top it off, when I pick up the Google Home Mini to mute its mic, I tend to accidentally touch the hidden sensors under the mesh screen, triggering it to start playing music.
Amazon Echo Dot seems to be a bit better at listening. Amazon Echo Dot almost always hears me. Google Home Mini had trouble hearing its key phrase if music was playing reasonably loud.
Amazon Echo Dot 3 sounds better than Google Home Mini. Sound quality of the Google Home Mini is that of a standard small Bluetooth speaker. It sounds okay. Whereas the sound on the Amazon Echo Dot is impressive. Both sound good, but side-by-side, the Echo Dot sounds remarkable.

If you’d like to see both devices in action as we tested the above script, here is a video. Please turn off your phone’s AI assistant and mute your mics on any smart home devices, since we’ll be commanding them throughout this video.

Who do you feel is the winner? Okay, Google? Or Alexa?

The day that Facebook died

Posted on November 21, 2018 by Robbie Ferguson

We live in an interconnected world, where I, as one guy, can simultaneously exist in many places. But I can’t possibly be everywhere at once. So I rely on the amazing inter-connectivity of technology.

In August, Facebook made a big mistake. They cut off Twitter from cross posting thanks to changes to their API that are meant to make Facebook more secure against groups like Cambridge Analytica. They made changes that broke Hootsuite. But what I think the decision makers there don’t realize is that Facebook essentially isolated themselves as a desolate island that you must travel to in order to visit its dwindling population.

Neah, just come visit me on the mainland.

With Facebook no longer receiving my posts, my wall has quickly become a wasteland. That means people aren’t responding to my posts on their platform, which means I don’t get any relevant notifications, which means I never open the app. As if I’m going to login to Facebook, having posted on every other platform with two clicks, to then copy and paste my same post to their platform. As if!

I don’t use Messenger anymore (XMPP discontinuation: another bonehead move on Facebook’s part), have moved our chat to Discord (who have a wonderful API and webhooks, I might add), and haven’t checked my wall in two months … and growing.

Facebook thinks they’re too big to fail. I remember when MySpace was huge. I think I still have a MySpace account somewhere. I think my Facebook account will inevitably fall into that same forgotten realm of useless services that I no longer use.

So… follow me on Twitter… @RobbieFerguson

https://twitter.com/RobbieFerguson/status/1065420674645327873

Fix: ESET Security Management Center Virtual Appliance Operating System is Not Up To Date

Posted on November 9, 2018 by Robbie Ferguson

In some previous iterations of the ESET management virtual appliance (ie., ESET Remote Administrator) the operating system would update itself. However, with the new ESET Security Management Center virtual appliance, there is no such task scheduled.

After some time, this will result in the ESMC Security Notification:

Operating system is not up to date

In today’s ESMC exercise, we’ll achieve:

Learn to create a client task,
Learn to schedule a client task to run on a schedule,
Learn to initiate a client task immediately.
And of course, we’ll update our virtual appliance’s OS and get rid of that nasty warning!

Here are the steps to follow. Pay attention along the way so you understand what’s happening. I don’t need to explain it here, since it will be clear on screen as you follow the steps. But by doing this, you will better understand how ESMC’s client tasks operate, and will resolve this issue immediately.

TIP: Note that in the second section (where we run the task immediately) we do not have to create a new client task. Once a client task is created once, you can re-use it (run on) as many times as you like. Similarly, if you create say, a task to install ESET Endpoint Security on Windows Workstations, you can later “Run on” the new laptop you got, without having to create a new Client Task (resulting in redundant client tasks in your list).

Here are the steps to fixing the ESET Security Management Center Operating System is Not Up To Date issue:

Click Client Tasks
Click New at the bottom.
Name the task something like “Update Operating System”
Set Task Category to “Operating System”
Choose task “Operating System Update”.
Press Continue (not Finish)
Check all 3 boxes.
Click Finish.
Click Create Trigger.
Name the trigger “Weekly Update ESMC” or something to that effect.
Click Continue (not Finish).
Click Add Computer and put a checkbox next to emsc.local, and press OK
Press Continue (not Finish).
Change “Scheduled” to “Weekly” and set which day/time you’d like it to occur. Make it during off hours since it might require a reboot.
Hit Finish.

NEXT we’ll run the task now.

Single-click the new “Update Operating System” task (or whatever you called it in Step 3 above).
Click Run On.
Click Target at left.
Add computer->esmc.local->ok
Hit Finish.
Computers->click the esmc.local system and press Send wake-up call.

Give it some time to complete, and then….

– Robbie

Remove ESET Management Agent / ESET Remote Administrator Agent – Batch File for GPO

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Robbie Ferguson

I’ve got a customer who used to have an ESET Remote Administrator 6 server, and about 85 computers connected to it. That server was deprecated, but a client task was not initiated to remove the old agent first. So essentially, they ended up with 85 machines with an agent pointing to a dead server.

A new ESET Security Management Center server was deployed, and a new agent installer created. However, because ESET changed the name of the agent, installing the new ESMC agent does not in fact upgrade the old agent. So you either end up with two agents, or just remain with the old one pointing to a non-existent server.

You could go around to every workstation and manually uninstall the ERA agent. But yikes, that’d be brutal. You can’t do it unattended even, because the uninstaller asks for a password.

The customer’s site doesn’t have a password to remove it, so you just push enter. But the prompt still appears.

So I wanted to help them do this via a GPO. After all, what’s the point in having a network if you still have to treat each system as independent?

wmic product get name

This command gives me a list of all applications that can be uninstalled. I ran it on my own system and see ESET Management Agent. I have ESMC 7. I ran it on an older system we have here, and it shows “ESET Remote Administrator Agent”. So I wrote a quick batch file to remove either of those two applications.

You can find that batch file here: https://github.com/Cat5TV/eset/blob/master/uninstallers/eset-uninstall-agent.bat

I figure there are probably various names for various versions of the agent, and I’ll add them as I find them.

ESET is currently evaluating my solution, as their support team says they have been encountering this problem more and more and had yet to come up with a solution. I hope it’s able to help some folks.

Robbie // Bald Nerd

Savory Vegetable Pot Roast with Easy Vegan Option

Posted on September 24, 2018 by Robbie Ferguson

Here’s a veggie pot roast recipe we really enjoy at our place. If you want to make it vegan, all you have to do is use vegan Worcestershire sauce and veggie stock. Easy, right?

Prep time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 6 hours

Ingredients:

4 Large Yellow Potatoes
Approximately 2lbs bite-sized White or Brown mushrooms
2 Large Carrots
1 Medium red onion
3 cups veggie stock
1/2 cup red wine
4 cloves garlic
3 TSP dried thyme leaves
3 TBSP tomato paste
2 TBSP Worcestershire sauce
Sea salt & fresh pepper to taste
1/4 cup Pot Barley
2 TBSP Corn Starch

Directions:

Pour 2.5 cups veggie stock (not the bland unsalted stuff – the good stuff) into your slow cooker.
Add 1/2 cup red wine.
Add 4 cloves minced garlic.
Add 3 TSP dried thyme leaves.
Add 3 TBSP tomato paste.
Add 2 TBSP Worcestershire sauce.
Grind some sea salt & fresh pepper into the liquid. A couple palm-fulls of each.
Rinse and stir in 1/4 cup Pot Barley, blending all the ingredients thus far.
Chop all vegetables into single-bite pieces (no need for knives when served). Mushrooms can be left whole, stems in, if they are not too large (they shrink a bit). Cut into half or quarter if they’re large. Firm mushrooms are nicest.
- 2 Large Carrots (peeled)
- 4 Large Yellow Potatoes (peeled)
- Whole White or Brown Mushrooms, roughly twice the amount size-wise as the potatoes. Eyeball it. You can’t go wrong.
1 whole medium-sized red onion, peeled, cut in half, then into 1/8ths (like a pie). When you cut off the ends, try to leave enough to hold the onion together in the pot.
Place each of those prepped veggies into the crock pot of liquid.
Stir it all together to coat everything.
Slow cook, covered on low for 5 hours. Do not stir.
After 5 hours, whisk up 1/2 cup vegetable stock with 2 TBSP cornstarch in a separate bowl and pour evenly into hot crockpot. Again stir to coat / mix.
Continue cooking, covered on low for 1 more hour. Do not stir.

Serve as is in pasta plates or other deep plates, with a fresh loaf of bread for dipping. For the kids, I boil a bit of pasta during the last 30 minutes of cooking so they can enjoy it with a side of noodles.

Enjoy!

-Robbie

Why I want to switch to DaVinci Resolve 15

Posted on September 8, 2018 by Robbie Ferguson

There’s one thing–only one thing–that keeps me stuck on Windows 10 on my laptop, and that’s my need to edit video for the Category5 TV Network. It has to be pro, and Linux has traditionally lagged far behind in its available offerings in comparison to Mac or Windows when it comes to video editing.

I’ve used Cyberlink PowerDirector for years. I know, it’s a cheap application and professionals will laugh at me. But fact is, it works very well, and has all the features I need to make a professional looking broadcast.

But it only works on Windows, and so I’ve been stuck on Windows.

I’ve been watching the progress of DaVinci Resolve from BlackMagic since it was first released, and even tried getting it going a few times, but it’s always been unstable on Linux. So I’m still stuck. But seeing video tutorials about it, and watching the changelogs, it really looks like it could be the video editor of Linux.

I installed LMDE 3 to see if it would take DaVinci Resolve, and I see BlackMagic has still not made any strides toward improving Linux support. The installer sucks. The software depends on old libraries, yet doesn’t install them. It’s trash, really. A sad state to be sure.

I’m going to do some tinkering, try moving over to Linux Mint to see if the Ubuntu base helps things (ie., proprietary NVIDIA drivers will probably be a bit newer), convert Resolve’s installer to a deb pack, and try installing it there. I’ll probably go through a few distros just trying to see where I can get Resolve working stable. I have v14 working on our family desktop computer running Ubuntu, but it’s unstable. Hoping for better results with Resolve 15.

So beyond the Windows requirement I’m currently under, there are a few things I absolutely require out of my video editor, and these are things that have prevented me from being able to move to a Linux editor in the past, but DaVinci Resolve appears to meet the requirements.

ProRes 4:2:2 editing. Yeah, I need that now that we’re recording to an Atomos Ninja Flame. Cyberlink PowerDirector handles ProRes files like a boss. I know DaVinci Resolve will do the same.

When I produce shows like New Every Day, I badly need multi-cam editing functionality in my editor. We only have one camera on that set, but because it is 4K we punch in to cut it into 3 different camera shots. In Cyberlink Power Director, I assign each of these “cameras” (punched-in shots) to keyboard keys, and simply press the key to change cameras. It automatically creates the edits on the timeline, and saves me a TON of editing work, while making the show appear like it has 3 cameras. I’ve even thought about getting a second StreamDeck (or even a mini) just for multi-cam editing.

Multi-Cam Editing looks just as good, and possibly better in DaVinci Resolve than it is in Cyberlink PowerDirector. Though this video doesn’t mention anything about keyboard shortcuts, I can’t imagine you actually have to use your mouse to switch shots. If it does not have keyboard-based switching, I’d have to give this one to Cyberlink PowerDirector, but it’s close enough to make the transition to DaVinci Resolve work.

Dynamic Zoom is just as easy in DaVinci Resolve as it is in Cyberlink PowerDirector. I use this heavily to give the punch-in shots some movement as if there’s someone operating the faux camera.

So there are a few reasons I think DaVinci Resolve might be ready, and might be able to help me transition fully to Linux on my laptop. As long as it is stable. Here’s hoping!

[Update]

Linux Mint 19 took DaVinci Resolve like a champ! Just had to install libssl-dev and ocl-icd-opencl-dev with apt, and it loaded up just fine! No other tricks or gimmicks, and no having to create symlinks to libraries!

Obviously I had to active the NVIDIA drivers, and Resolve warns me performance may suffer on my old lappy, but I’m running!

DaVinci Resolve 15 running on Linux Mint 19

[Update 2]

Okay, so it’s running. However, even with gstreamer-plugins, vlc, and Mint’s multimedia codecs installed, Resolve only sees the PCM audio for MP4 files shot on the Sony FDR-AX53, which are XAVC.

XAVC-encoded video from the Sony FDR-AX53 is only showing as PCM Audio in DaVinci Resolve 15 on Linux Mint 19

At the same time, there is no audio coming out of the speakers, though DaVinci Resolve 15 is the first version to include native audio support (using ALSA) in Linux.

So I’ll try converting the video to ProRes using the format settings I see in mediainfo C0001.MP4:

apt install ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i C0001.MP4 -c:v prores -vf "scale=3840:2160,fps=30000/1001,format=yuv422p" -b:v 110M -c:a pcm_s16le output.mov

I go to try it to see if it worked, and immediately start to think my old laptop might not be up to the task.

On the plus side, converting the video to ProRes worked (having rebooted, I can load it):

And there is sound now that the video has been converted!

But, it seems a sad fact that my computer is not up to the requirements to do this. Yet it works perfectly in Windows 10 with Cyberlink PowerDirector. So disappointing.

I’m going to continue tinkering with settings to see if I can squeeze some life out of this old girl.

Nerdgasms

Posted on August 31, 2018 by Robbie Ferguson

I’m going to start posting any little helpful tools I create to make my life easier. I call them Nerdgasms. This list will grow over time, so be sure to check back!

Set Linux Time and Date
NTP won’t help you if your date and time are too far out of whack. This has become even more so of a problem with single board computers that do not have a realtime clock. Power it off too long and you’ll lose your settings. This Nerdgasm is the easiest way to figure out what you need to type into the terminal to set your Linux system’s date and time.

NTP on Debian reporting 95 years in the future – Part 5: Patching the Kernel

Posted on July 7, 2018 by Robbie Ferguson

If you haven’t read part 1 yet, make sure you start there.

Okay — I can’t wait 24 hours — I’m an eager beaver. But 14 hours later, the system is still showing the correct time. Let’s play.

root@nems:/usr/local/share/nems/nems-scripts# apt update && apt upgrade
Ign:1 http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge InRelease
Ign:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease                                                                      
Hit:3 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports InRelease                                                                                           
Hit:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch Release                                                                                                       
Hit:5 http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge Release                                                        
Ign:6 http://webmin.mirror.somersettechsolutions.co.uk/repository sarge InRelease
Hit:7 http://webmin.mirror.somersettechsolutions.co.uk/repository sarge Release
Hit:8 https://repo.foxiehost.eu/debian stretch InRelease
Ign:9 https://apt.izzysoft.de/ubuntu generic InRelease
Hit:10 https://apt.izzysoft.de/ubuntu generic Release
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@nems:/usr/local/share/nems/nems-scripts# apt dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Okay – so I’m on the absolute most amazingly modern kernel ever. Great! So let’s fix that kernel.

We’ll check again to see if the timer workaround is implemented in our kernel:

root@nems:/usr/local/share/nems/nems-scripts# grep CONFIG_FSL_ERRATUM_A008585 /boot/config-4.14.26 
# CONFIG_FSL_ERRATUM_A008585 is not set

So what does this tell us?

CONFIG_FSL_ERRATUM_A008585 shows whether the workaround for Freescale/NXP Erratum A-008585 is active. The workaround’s description is “This option enables a workaround for Freescale/NXP Erratum A-008585 (“ARM generic timer may contain an erroneous value”). The workaround will only be active if the fsl,erratum-a008585 property is found in the timer node.”

For those who are even nerdier than me, check out kernel.org’s log of the patch here: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9487241/

You’re such a nerd!

Now I’m getting into the experimental. I’ve never changed a kernel config before. Funny, that. I guess if you’ve never needed to do something, you never learn to do it.

I have yet to find online instructions for doing this, and here’s what I’ll try.

Note for tl;dr – this didn’t work.

Alright, let’s change my default config as we prepare to re-compile the kernel. I’m unsure if changing this config will make the newly compiled kernel receive the change or not, but it’s worth trying.

root@nems:/tmp# sed -i "s/# CONFIG_FSL_ERRATUM_A008585.*/CONFIG_FSL_ERRATUM_A008585=y/g" /boot/config-4.14.26
root@nems:/tmp# grep CONFIG_FSL_ERRATUM_A008585 /boot/config-4.14.26
CONFIG_FSL_ERRATUM_A008585=y

Great, my config is now set to include this patch.

Okay, I’m obviously gonna need the kernel headers here…

root@nems:/tmp/tmp# apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-headers-4.14.26
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 10.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 73.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 https://repo.foxiehost.eu/debian stretch/main arm64 linux-headers-4.14.26 arm64 4.14.26-1 [10.6 MB]
Fetched 10.6 MB in 4s (2,265 kB/s)                
Selecting previously unselected package linux-headers-4.14.26.
(Reading database ... 83271 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../linux-headers-4.14.26_4.14.26-1_arm64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-headers-4.14.26 (4.14.26-1) ...
Setting up linux-headers-4.14.26 (4.14.26-1) ...
root@nems:/tmp/tmp# cd /usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.26/
root@nems:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.26# ls
arch  block  certs  crypto  Documentation  drivers  firmware  fs  include  init  ipc  Kconfig  kernel  lib  Makefile  mm  Module.symvers  net  samples	scripts  security  sound  tools  usr  virt

Looks good, and the default setting is the same as my running kernel config:

root@nems:~# cd /usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.26
root@nems:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.26# grep CONFIG_FSL_ERRATUM_A008585 /usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.26/.config
# CONFIG_FSL_ERRATUM_A008585 is not set

Great! I think I’ve made a connection… this file has the same setting as my default kernel config.

So since I’ve already updated my own config, let’s compile with oldconfig – I’m assuming that means “grab the old config”… hmmm…. makes sense to me.

root@nems:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.26# grep CONFIG_FSL_ERRATUM_A008585 .config
# CONFIG_FSL_ERRATUM_A008585 is not set
root@nems:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.26# make oldconfig
  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/bin2c
  HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/conf
scripts/kconfig/conf  --oldconfig Kconfig
#
# configuration written to .config
#

Alright, is it set now?

root@nems:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.26# grep CONFIG_FSL_ERRATUM_A008585 .config
root@nems:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.26#

Weird… the setting is gone! Well, let’s see what happens? Maybe the kernel will default to “yes” if the setting … let’s try.

root@nems:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.26# make config
scripts/kconfig/conf  --oldaskconfig Kconfig
*
* Linux/arm64 4.14.26 Kernel Configuration
*
*
* General setup
*
Cross-compiler tool prefix (CROSS_COMPILE) [] (NEW) ^C
scripts/kconfig/Makefile:32: recipe for target 'config' failed
make[1]: *** [config] Interrupt
Makefile:541: recipe for target 'config' failed
make: *** [config] Interrupt

Oh – If it’s going to ask me to say yes to a crapload of defaults, I’ma abort that!

I’ll trust the kernel devs and my config 😛

root@nems:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.26# yes "" | make config
scripts/kconfig/conf  --oldaskconfig Kconfig
*
* Linux/arm64 4.14.26 Kernel Configuration
*
*
* General setup
*
Cross-compiler tool prefix (CROSS_COMPILE) [] (NEW)
Compile also drivers which will not load (COMPILE_TEST) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Local version - append to kernel release (LOCALVERSION) [] (NEW)
Automatically append version information to the version string (LOCALVERSION_AUTO) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Default hostname (DEFAULT_HOSTNAME) [(none)] (NEW)
Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap) (SWAP) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
System V IPC (SYSVIPC) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls (CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
uselib syscall (USELIB) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* IRQ subsystem
*
*
* Timers subsystem
*
Timer tick handling
> 1. Periodic timer ticks (constant rate, no dynticks) (HZ_PERIODIC) (NEW)
  2. Idle dynticks system (tickless idle) (NO_HZ_IDLE) (NEW)
  3. Full dynticks system (tickless) (NO_HZ_FULL) (NEW)
choice[1-3]: Old Idle dynticks config (NO_HZ) [N/y/?] (NEW)
High Resolution Timer Support (HIGH_RES_TIMERS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* CPU/Task time and stats accounting
*
Cputime accounting
> 1. Simple tick based cputime accounting (TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING) (NEW)
  2. Full dynticks CPU time accounting (VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN) (NEW)
choice[1-2]: Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting (IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING) [N/y/?] (NEW)
BSD Process Accounting (BSD_PROCESS_ACCT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* RCU Subsystem
*
Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration (RCU_EXPERT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Kernel .config support (IKCONFIG) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB) (LOG_BUF_SHIFT) [17] (NEW)
CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB) (LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT) [12] (NEW)
Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB) (PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT) [13] (NEW)
*
* Control Group support
*
Control Group support (CGROUPS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Namespaces support
*
Namespaces support (NAMESPACES) [Y/?] y
  UTS namespace (UTS_NS) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  User namespace (USER_NS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  PID Namespaces (PID_NS) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Automatic process group scheduling (SCHED_AUTOGROUP) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools (SYSFS_DEPRECATED) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs) (RELAY) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support (BLK_DEV_INITRD) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Compiler optimization level
> 1. Optimize for performance (CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE) (NEW)
  2. Optimize for size (CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE) (NEW)
choice[1-2]: *
* Configure standard kernel features (expert users)
*
Configure standard kernel features (expert users) (EXPERT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Enable bpf() system call (BPF_SYSCALL) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Enable userfaultfd() system call (USERFAULTFD) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Embedded system (EMBEDDED) [N/y/?] (NEW)
PC/104 support (PC104) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Kernel Performance Events And Counters
*
Kernel performance events and counters (PERF_EVENTS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Disable heap randomization (COMPAT_BRK) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Choose SLAB allocator
  1. SLAB (SLAB) (NEW)
> 2. SLUB (Unqueued Allocator) (SLUB) (NEW)
choice[1-2?]: Allow slab caches to be merged (SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
SLAB freelist randomization (SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Harden slab freelist metadata (SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED) [N/y/?] (NEW)
SLUB per cpu partial cache (SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Profiling support (PROFILING) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Optimize very unlikely/likely branches (JUMP_LABEL) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* GCC plugins
*
GCC plugins (GCC_PLUGINS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Stack Protector buffer overflow detection
> 1. None (CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE) (NEW)
  2. Regular (CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR) (NEW)
  3. Strong (CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG) (NEW)
choice[1-3?]: Use a virtually-mapped stack (VMAP_STACK) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Perform full reference count validation at the expense of speed (REFCOUNT_FULL) [N/y/?]
*
* GCOV-based kernel profiling
*
*
* Enable loadable module support
*
Enable loadable module support (MODULES) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Enable the block layer
*
Enable the block layer (BLOCK) [Y/?] y
  Block layer SG support v4 (BLK_DEV_BSG) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  Block layer SG support v4 helper lib (BLK_DEV_BSGLIB) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Block layer data integrity support (BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Zoned block device support (BLK_DEV_ZONED) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Block device command line partition parser (BLK_CMDLINE_PARSER) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Enable support for block device writeback throttling (BLK_WBT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Logic for interfacing with Opal enabled SEDs (BLK_SED_OPAL) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  *
  * Partition Types
  *
  Advanced partition selection (PARTITION_ADVANCED) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  *
  * IO Schedulers
  *
  Deadline I/O scheduler (IOSCHED_DEADLINE) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  CFQ I/O scheduler (IOSCHED_CFQ) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  Default I/O scheduler
    1. Deadline (DEFAULT_DEADLINE) (NEW)
  > 2. CFQ (DEFAULT_CFQ) (NEW)
    3. No-op (DEFAULT_NOOP) (NEW)
  choice[1-3?]:   MQ deadline I/O scheduler (MQ_IOSCHED_DEADLINE) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  Kyber I/O scheduler (MQ_IOSCHED_KYBER) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  BFQ I/O scheduler (IOSCHED_BFQ) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Platform selection
*
Actions Semi Platforms (ARCH_ACTIONS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Allwinner sunxi 64-bit SoC Family (ARCH_SUNXI) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Annapurna Labs Alpine platform (ARCH_ALPINE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Broadcom BCM2835 family (ARCH_BCM2835) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Broadcom iProc SoC Family (ARCH_BCM_IPROC) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Marvell Berlin SoC Family (ARCH_BERLIN) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Broadcom Set-Top-Box SoCs (ARCH_BRCMSTB) [N/y/?] (NEW)
ARMv8 based Samsung Exynos SoC family (ARCH_EXYNOS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
ARMv8 based Freescale Layerscape SoC family (ARCH_LAYERSCAPE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
LG Electronics LG1K SoC Family (ARCH_LG1K) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Hisilicon SoC Family (ARCH_HISI) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Mediatek MT65xx & MT81xx ARMv8 SoC (ARCH_MEDIATEK) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Amlogic Platforms (ARCH_MESON) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Marvell EBU SoC Family (ARCH_MVEBU) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Qualcomm Platforms (ARCH_QCOM) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Realtek Platforms (ARCH_REALTEK) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Rockchip Platforms (ARCH_ROCKCHIP) [N/y/?] (NEW)
AMD Seattle SoC Family (ARCH_SEATTLE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Renesas SoC Platforms (ARCH_RENESAS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Altera's Stratix 10 SoCFPGA Family (ARCH_STRATIX10) [N/y/?] (NEW)
NVIDIA Tegra SoC Family (ARCH_TEGRA) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Spreadtrum SoC platform (ARCH_SPRD) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Cavium Inc. Thunder SoC Family (ARCH_THUNDER) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Cavium ThunderX2 Server Processors (ARCH_THUNDER2) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Socionext UniPhier SoC Family (ARCH_UNIPHIER) [N/y/?] (NEW)
ARMv8 software model (Versatile Express) (ARCH_VEXPRESS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
AppliedMicro X-Gene SOC Family (ARCH_XGENE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
ZTE ZX SoC Family (ARCH_ZX) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Xilinx ZynqMP Family (ARCH_ZYNQMP) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Bus support
*
PCI support (PCI) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* DesignWare PCI Core Support
*
*
* PCI Endpoint
*
PCI Endpoint Support (PCI_ENDPOINT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Kernel Features
*
*
* ARM errata workarounds via the alternatives framework
*
Cortex-A53: 826319: System might deadlock if a write cannot complete until read data is accepted (ARM64_ERRATUM_826319) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Cortex-A53: 827319: Data cache clean instructions might cause overlapping transactions to the interconnect (ARM64_ERRATUM_827319) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Cortex-A53: 824069: Cache line might not be marked as clean after a CleanShared snoop (ARM64_ERRATUM_824069) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Cortex-A53: 819472: Store exclusive instructions might cause data corruption (ARM64_ERRATUM_819472) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Cortex-A57: 832075: possible deadlock on mixing exclusive memory accesses with device loads (ARM64_ERRATUM_832075) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Cortex-A53: 843419: A load or store might access an incorrect address (ARM64_ERRATUM_843419) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Cavium erratum 22375, 24313 (CAVIUM_ERRATUM_22375) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Cavium erratum 23154: Access to ICC_IAR1_EL1 is not sync'ed (CAVIUM_ERRATUM_23154) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Cavium erratum 27456: Broadcast TLBI instructions may cause icache corruption (CAVIUM_ERRATUM_27456) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Cavium erratum 30115: Guest may disable interrupts in host (CAVIUM_ERRATUM_30115) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Falkor E1003: Incorrect translation due to ASID change (QCOM_FALKOR_ERRATUM_1003) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Falkor E1009: Prematurely complete a DSB after a TLBI (QCOM_FALKOR_ERRATUM_1009) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
QDF2400 E0065: Incorrect GITS_TYPER.ITT_Entry_size (QCOM_QDF2400_ERRATUM_0065) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Falkor E1041: Speculative instruction fetches might cause errant memory access (QCOM_FALKOR_ERRATUM_E1041) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Page size
> 1. 4KB (ARM64_4K_PAGES) (NEW)
  2. 16KB (ARM64_16K_PAGES) (NEW)
  3. 64KB (ARM64_64K_PAGES) (NEW)
choice[1-3?]: Virtual address space size
> 1. 39-bit (ARM64_VA_BITS_39) (NEW)
  2. 48-bit (ARM64_VA_BITS_48) (NEW)
choice[1-2?]: Build big-endian kernel (CPU_BIG_ENDIAN) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Multi-core scheduler support (SCHED_MC) [N/y/?] (NEW)
SMT scheduler support (SCHED_SMT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Maximum number of CPUs (2-4096) (NR_CPUS) [64] (NEW)
Support for hot-pluggable CPUs (HOTPLUG_CPU) [Y/?] (NEW) y
Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support (NUMA) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Preemption Model
> 1. No Forced Preemption (Server) (PREEMPT_NONE) (NEW)
  2. Voluntary Kernel Preemption (Desktop) (PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY) (NEW)
  3. Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop) (PREEMPT) (NEW)
choice[1-3]: Timer frequency
  1. 100 HZ (HZ_100) (NEW)
> 2. 250 HZ (HZ_250) (NEW)
  3. 300 HZ (HZ_300) (NEW)
  4. 1000 HZ (HZ_1000) (NEW)
choice[1-4?]: Memory model
> 1. Sparse Memory (SPARSEMEM_MANUAL) (NEW)
choice[1]: 1
Sparse Memory virtual memmap (SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Allow for memory compaction (COMPACTION) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  Page migration (MIGRATION) [Y/?] (NEW) y
Enable bounce buffers (BOUNCE) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Enable KSM for page merging (KSM) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Low address space to protect from user allocation (DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR) [4096] (NEW)
Enable recovery from hardware memory errors (MEMORY_FAILURE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Transparent Hugepage Support (TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present (CLEANCACHE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present (FRONTSWAP) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Contiguous Memory Allocator (CMA) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Common API for compressed memory storage (ZPOOL) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Low (Up to 2x) density storage for compressed pages (ZBUD) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Memory allocator for compressed pages (ZSMALLOC) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Enable idle page tracking (IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Collect percpu memory statistics (PERCPU_STATS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode (SECCOMP) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Enable paravirtualization code (PARAVIRT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Paravirtual steal time accounting (PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING) [N/y/?] (NEW)
kexec system call (KEXEC) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Build kdump crash kernel (CRASH_DUMP) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Xen guest support on ARM64 (XEN) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Emulate Privileged Access Never using TTBR0_EL1 switching (ARM64_SW_TTBR0_PAN) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* ARMv8.1 architectural features
*
Support for hardware updates of the Access and Dirty page flags (ARM64_HW_AFDBM) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Enable support for Privileged Access Never (PAN) (ARM64_PAN) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Atomic instructions (ARM64_LSE_ATOMICS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Enable support for Virtualization Host Extensions (VHE) (ARM64_VHE) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
*
* ARMv8.2 architectural features
*
Enable support for User Access Override (UAO) (ARM64_UAO) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Enable support for persistent memory (ARM64_PMEM) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Randomize the address of the kernel image (RANDOMIZE_BASE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Boot options
*
Default kernel command string (CMDLINE) [] (NEW)
Always use the default kernel command string (CMDLINE_FORCE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
UEFI runtime support (EFI) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  Enable support for SMBIOS (DMI) tables (DMI) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
*
* Userspace binary formats
*
Kernel support for ELF binaries (BINFMT_ELF) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Write ELF core dumps with partial segments (CORE_DUMP_DEFAULT_ELF_HEADERS) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Kernel support for scripts starting with #! (BINFMT_SCRIPT) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Kernel support for MISC binaries (BINFMT_MISC) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Kernel support for 32-bit EL0 (COMPAT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Power management options
*
Suspend to RAM and standby (SUSPEND) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Hibernation (aka 'suspend to disk') (HIBERNATION) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Opportunistic sleep (PM_AUTOSLEEP) [N/y/?] (NEW)
User space wakeup sources interface (PM_WAKELOCKS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Device power management core functionality (PM) [Y/?] (NEW) y
  Power Management Debug Support (PM_DEBUG) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Enable workqueue power-efficient mode by default (WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* CPU Power Management
*
*
* CPU Idle
*
CPU idle PM support (CPU_IDLE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* CPU Frequency scaling
*
CPU Frequency scaling (CPU_FREQ) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Networking support
*
Networking support (NET) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Device Drivers
*
*
* Generic Driver Options
*
Support for uevent helper (UEVENT_HELPER) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  path to uevent helper (UEVENT_HELPER_PATH) [] (NEW)
Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev (DEVTMPFS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Select only drivers that don't need compile-time external firmware (STANDALONE) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Prevent firmware from being built (PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Userspace firmware loading support (FW_LOADER) [Y/?] y
  Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary (FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  External firmware blobs to build into the kernel binary (EXTRA_FIRMWARE) [] (NEW)
Fallback user-helper invocation for firmware loading (FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Bus devices
*
Broadcom STB GISB bus arbiter (BRCMSTB_GISB_ARB) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Simple Power-Managed Bus Driver (SIMPLE_PM_BUS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Versatile Express configuration bus (VEXPRESS_CONFIG) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Memory Technology Device (MTD) support
*
Memory Technology Device (MTD) support (MTD) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Device Tree and Open Firmware support
*
Device Tree and Open Firmware support (OF) [Y/?] (NEW) y
  Device Tree runtime unit tests (OF_UNITTEST) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Device Tree overlays (OF_OVERLAY) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Parallel port support
*
Parallel port support (PARPORT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Block devices
*
Block devices (BLK_DEV) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  Null test block driver (BLK_DEV_NULL_BLK) [N/y] (NEW)
  Loopback device support (BLK_DEV_LOOP) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  *
  * DRBD disabled because PROC_FS or INET not selected
  *
  RAM block device support (BLK_DEV_RAM) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Packet writing on CD/DVD media (DEPRECATED) (CDROM_PKTCDVD) [N/y/?] (NEW)
NVM Express over Fabrics FC host driver (NVME_FC) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Misc devices
*
Dummy IRQ handler (DUMMY_IRQ) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Enclosure Services (ENCLOSURE_SERVICES) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Generic on-chip SRAM driver (SRAM) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Silicon Labs C2 port support
*
Silicon Labs C2 port support (C2PORT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* EEPROM support
*
EEPROM 93CX6 support (EEPROM_93CX6) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Texas Instruments shared transport line discipline
*
*
* Altera FPGA firmware download module
*
*
* Intel MIC Bus Driver
*
*
* SCIF Bus Driver
*
*
* VOP Bus Driver
*
*
* Intel MIC Host Driver
*
*
* Intel MIC Card Driver
*
*
* SCIF Driver
*
*
* Intel MIC Coprocessor State Management (COSM) Drivers
*
*
* VOP Driver
*
Line Echo Canceller support (ECHO) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* SCSI device support
*
RAID Transport Class (RAID_ATTRS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
SCSI device support (SCSI) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers (libata)
*
Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers (libata) (ATA) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Multiple devices driver support (RAID and LVM)
*
Multiple devices driver support (RAID and LVM) (MD) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Open-Channel SSD target support
*
Open-Channel SSD target support (NVM) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Input device support
*
Generic input layer (needed for keyboard, mouse, ...) (INPUT) [Y/?] y
  Support for memoryless force-feedback devices (INPUT_FF_MEMLESS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Polled input device skeleton (INPUT_POLLDEV) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Sparse keymap support library (INPUT_SPARSEKMAP) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Matrix keymap support library (INPUT_MATRIXKMAP) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  *
  * Userland interfaces
  *
  Mouse interface (INPUT_MOUSEDEV) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Joystick interface (INPUT_JOYDEV) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Event interface (INPUT_EVDEV) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Event debugging (INPUT_EVBUG) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  *
  * Input Device Drivers
  *
  *
  * Keyboards
  *
  Keyboards (INPUT_KEYBOARD) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
    AT keyboard (KEYBOARD_ATKBD) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
    DECstation/VAXstation LK201/LK401 keyboard (KEYBOARD_LKKBD) [N/y/?] (NEW)
    Newton keyboard (KEYBOARD_NEWTON) [N/y/?] (NEW)
    OpenCores Keyboard Controller (KEYBOARD_OPENCORES) [N/y/?] (NEW)
    Samsung keypad support (KEYBOARD_SAMSUNG) [N/y/?] (NEW)
    Stowaway keyboard (KEYBOARD_STOWAWAY) [N/y/?] (NEW)
    Sun Type 4 and Type 5 keyboard (KEYBOARD_SUNKBD) [N/y/?] (NEW)
    TI OMAP4+ keypad support (KEYBOARD_OMAP4) [N/y/?] (NEW)
    XT keyboard (KEYBOARD_XTKBD) [N/y/?] (NEW)
    Broadcom keypad driver (KEYBOARD_BCM) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  *
  * Mice
  *
  Mice (INPUT_MOUSE) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
    PS/2 mouse (MOUSE_PS2) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
      Elantech PS/2 protocol extension (MOUSE_PS2_ELANTECH) [N/y/?] (NEW)
      Sentelic Finger Sensing Pad PS/2 protocol extension (MOUSE_PS2_SENTELIC) [N/y/?] (NEW)
      eGalax TouchKit PS/2 protocol extension (MOUSE_PS2_TOUCHKIT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
    Serial mouse (MOUSE_SERIAL) [N/y/?] (NEW)
    Apple USB Touchpad support (MOUSE_APPLETOUCH) [N/y/?] (NEW)
    Apple USB BCM5974 Multitouch trackpad support (MOUSE_BCM5974) [N/y/?] (NEW)
    DEC VSXXX-AA/GA mouse and VSXXX-AB tablet (MOUSE_VSXXXAA) [N/y/?] (NEW)
    Synaptics USB device support (MOUSE_SYNAPTICS_USB) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  *
  * Joysticks/Gamepads
  *
  Joysticks/Gamepads (INPUT_JOYSTICK) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  *
  * Tablets
  *
  Tablets (INPUT_TABLET) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  *
  * Touchscreens
  *
  Touchscreens (INPUT_TOUCHSCREEN) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  *
  * Miscellaneous devices
  *
  Miscellaneous devices (INPUT_MISC) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Synaptics RMI4 bus support (RMI4_CORE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Hardware I/O ports
*
Serial I/O support (SERIO) [Y/?] (NEW) y
Serial port line discipline (SERIO_SERPORT) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
AMBA KMI keyboard controller (SERIO_AMBAKMI) [N/y] (NEW)
PS/2 driver library (SERIO_LIBPS2) [Y/?] (NEW) y
Raw access to serio ports (SERIO_RAW) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Altera UP PS/2 controller (SERIO_ALTERA_PS2) [N/y/?] (NEW)
TQC PS/2 multiplexer (SERIO_PS2MULT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
ARC PS/2 support (SERIO_ARC_PS2) [N/y/?] (NEW)
GRLIB APBPS2 PS/2 keyboard/mouse controller (SERIO_APBPS2) [N/y/?] (NEW)
User space serio port driver support (USERIO) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Gameport support (GAMEPORT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Character devices
*
Enable TTY (TTY) [Y/?] y
  Virtual terminal (VT) [Y/?] y
    Support for binding and unbinding console drivers (VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Legacy (BSD) PTY support (LEGACY_PTYS) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
    Maximum number of legacy PTY in use (LEGACY_PTY_COUNT) [256] (NEW)
  Non-standard serial port support (SERIAL_NONSTANDARD) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Trace data sink for MIPI P1149.7 cJTAG standard (TRACE_SINK) [N/y/?] (NEW)
/dev/mem virtual device support (DEVMEM) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
*
* Serial drivers
*
8250/16550 and compatible serial support (SERIAL_8250) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Non-8250 serial port support
*
ARM AMBA PL010 serial port support (SERIAL_AMBA_PL010) [N/y/?] (NEW)
ARM AMBA PL011 serial port support (SERIAL_AMBA_PL011) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Early console using ARM semihosting (SERIAL_EARLYCON_ARM_SEMIHOST) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Xilinx uartlite serial port support (SERIAL_UARTLITE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
SCCNXP serial port support (SERIAL_SCCNXP) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Altera JTAG UART support (SERIAL_ALTERA_JTAGUART) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Altera UART support (SERIAL_ALTERA_UART) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Cadence (Xilinx Zynq) UART support (SERIAL_XILINX_PS_UART) [N/y/?] (NEW)
ARC UART driver support (SERIAL_ARC) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Freescale lpuart serial port support (SERIAL_FSL_LPUART) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Conexant Digicolor CX92xxx USART serial port support (SERIAL_CONEXANT_DIGICOLOR) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Serial device bus
*
Serial device bus (SERIAL_DEV_BUS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
ARM JTAG DCC console (HVC_DCC) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* IPMI top-level message handler
*
IPMI top-level message handler (IPMI_HANDLER) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Hardware Random Number Generator Core support
*
Hardware Random Number Generator Core support (HW_RANDOM) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  Timer IOMEM HW Random Number Generator support (HW_RANDOM_TIMERIOMEM) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Siemens R3964 line discipline (R3964) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* PCMCIA character devices
*
RAW driver (/dev/raw/rawN) (RAW_DRIVER) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* TPM Hardware Support
*
TPM Hardware Support (TCG_TPM) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Xillybus generic FPGA interface (XILLYBUS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* I2C support
*
I2C support (I2C) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* SPI support
*
SPI support (SPI) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* SPMI support
*
SPMI support (SPMI) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* HSI support
*
HSI support (HSI) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* PPS support
*
PPS support (PPS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* PTP clock support
*
*
* Enable PHYLIB and NETWORK_PHY_TIMESTAMPING to see the additional clocks.
*
*
* GPIO Support
*
GPIO Support (GPIOLIB) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Dallas's 1-wire support
*
Dallas's 1-wire support (W1) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Adaptive Voltage Scaling class support
*
Adaptive Voltage Scaling class support (POWER_AVS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Board level reset or power off
*
Board level reset or power off (POWER_RESET) [Y/?] (NEW) y
  Restart power-off driver (POWER_RESET_RESTART) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  APM SoC X-Gene reset driver (POWER_RESET_XGENE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Generic SYSCON regmap reset driver (POWER_RESET_SYSCON) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Generic SYSCON regmap poweroff driver (POWER_RESET_SYSCON_POWEROFF) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Power supply class support
*
Power supply class support (POWER_SUPPLY) [Y/?] (NEW) y
  Power supply debug (POWER_SUPPLY_DEBUG) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Generic PDA/phone power driver (PDA_POWER) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Test power driver (TEST_POWER) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  DS2780 battery driver (BATTERY_DS2780) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  DS2781 battery driver (BATTERY_DS2781) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  BQ27xxx battery driver (BATTERY_BQ27XXX) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  MAX8903 Battery DC-DC Charger for USB and Adapter Power (CHARGER_MAX8903) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Hardware Monitoring support
*
Hardware Monitoring support (HWMON) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  Hardware Monitoring Chip debugging messages (HWMON_DEBUG_CHIP) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  *
  * Native drivers
  *
  ASPEED AST2400/AST2500 PWM and Fan tach driver (SENSORS_ASPEED) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Fintek F71805F/FG, F71806F/FG and F71872F/FG (SENSORS_F71805F) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Fintek F71882FG and compatibles (SENSORS_F71882FG) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  ITE IT87xx and compatibles (SENSORS_IT87) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Maxim MAX197 and compatibles (SENSORS_MAX197) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  National Semiconductor PC87360 family (SENSORS_PC87360) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  National Semiconductor PC87427 (SENSORS_PC87427) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  NTC thermistor support from Murata (SENSORS_NTC_THERMISTOR) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Nuvoton NCT6683D (SENSORS_NCT6683) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Nuvoton NCT6775F and compatibles (SENSORS_NCT6775) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  SMSC LPC47M10x and compatibles (SENSORS_SMSC47M1) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  SMSC LPC47B397-NC (SENSORS_SMSC47B397) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  VIA VT1211 (SENSORS_VT1211) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Winbond W83627HF, W83627THF, W83637HF, W83687THF, W83697HF (SENSORS_W83627HF) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Winbond W83627EHF/EHG/DHG/UHG, W83667HG, NCT6775F, NCT6776F (SENSORS_W83627EHF) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Generic Thermal sysfs driver
*
Generic Thermal sysfs driver (THERMAL) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Watchdog Timer Support
*
Watchdog Timer Support (WATCHDOG) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Sonics Silicon Backplane
*
Sonics Silicon Backplane support (SSB) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Broadcom specific AMBA
*
Broadcom specific AMBA (BCMA) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Multifunction device drivers
*
Atmel Flexcom (Flexible Serial Communication Unit) (MFD_ATMEL_FLEXCOM) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Atmel HLCDC (High-end LCD Controller) (MFD_ATMEL_HLCDC) [N/y/?] (NEW)
ChromeOS Embedded Controller (MFD_CROS_EC) [N/y/?] (NEW)
HiSilicon Hi6421 PMU/Codec IC (MFD_HI6421_PMIC) [N/y/?] (NEW)
HTC PASIC3 LED/DS1WM chip support (HTC_PASIC3) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Kontron module PLD device (MFD_KEMPLD) [N/y/?] (NEW)
MediaTek MT6397 PMIC Support (MFD_MT6397) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Silicon Motion SM501 (MFD_SM501) [N/y/?] (NEW)
ST-Ericsson ABX500 Mixed Signal Circuit register functions (ABX500_CORE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
System Controller Register R/W Based on Regmap (MFD_SYSCON) [N/y/?] (NEW)
TI ADC / Touch Screen chip support (MFD_TI_AM335X_TSCADC) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Voltage and Current Regulator Support
*
Voltage and Current Regulator Support (REGULATOR) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Remote Controller support
*
Remote Controller support (RC_CORE) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  Compile Remote Controller keymap modules (RC_MAP) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  *
  * Remote controller decoders
  *
  Remote controller decoders (RC_DECODERS) [Y/n] (NEW)
    LIRC interface driver (LIRC) [N/y/?] (NEW)
    Enable IR raw decoder for the NEC protocol (IR_NEC_DECODER) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
    Enable IR raw decoder for the RC-5 protocol (IR_RC5_DECODER) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
    Enable IR raw decoder for the RC6 protocol (IR_RC6_DECODER) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
    Enable IR raw decoder for the JVC protocol (IR_JVC_DECODER) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
    Enable IR raw decoder for the Sony protocol (IR_SONY_DECODER) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
    Enable IR raw decoder for the Sanyo protocol (IR_SANYO_DECODER) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
    Enable IR raw decoder for the Sharp protocol (IR_SHARP_DECODER) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
    Enable IR raw decoder for the MCE keyboard/mouse protocol (IR_MCE_KBD_DECODER) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
    Enable IR raw decoder for the XMP protocol (IR_XMP_DECODER) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  *
  * Remote Controller devices
  *
  Remote Controller devices (RC_DEVICES) [N/y] (NEW)
*
* Multimedia support
*
Multimedia support (MEDIA_SUPPORT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Graphics support
*
*
* Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support)
*
Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) (DRM) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* ACP (Audio CoProcessor) Configuration
*
*
* Frame buffer Devices
*
*
* Support for frame buffer devices
*
Support for frame buffer devices (FB) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Backlight & LCD device support
*
Backlight & LCD device support (BACKLIGHT_LCD_SUPPORT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Console display driver support
*
Initial number of console screen columns (DUMMY_CONSOLE_COLUMNS) [80] (NEW)
Initial number of console screen rows (DUMMY_CONSOLE_ROWS) [25] (NEW)
*
* Sound card support
*
Sound card support (SOUND) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* HID support
*
HID bus support (HID) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  Battery level reporting for HID devices (HID_BATTERY_STRENGTH) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  /dev/hidraw raw HID device support (HIDRAW) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  User-space I/O driver support for HID subsystem (UHID) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Generic HID driver (HID_GENERIC) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  *
  * Special HID drivers
  *
  A4 tech mice (HID_A4TECH) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  ACRUX game controller support (HID_ACRUX) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Apple {i,Power,Mac}Books (HID_APPLE) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  Aureal (HID_AUREAL) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Belkin Flip KVM and Wireless keyboard (HID_BELKIN) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  Cherry Cymotion keyboard (HID_CHERRY) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  Chicony devices (HID_CHICONY) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  CMedia CM6533 HID audio jack controls (HID_CMEDIA) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Cypress mouse and barcode readers (HID_CYPRESS) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  DragonRise Inc. game controller (HID_DRAGONRISE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  EMS Production Inc. force feedback support (HID_EMS_FF) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  ELECOM HID devices (HID_ELECOM) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Ezkey BTC 8193 keyboard (HID_EZKEY) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  Gembird Joypad (HID_GEMBIRD) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Google Fiber TV Box remote control support (HID_GFRM) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Keytouch HID devices (HID_KEYTOUCH) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  KYE/Genius devices (HID_KYE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Waltop (HID_WALTOP) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Gyration remote control (HID_GYRATION) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  ION iCade arcade controller (HID_ICADE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  ITE devices (HID_ITE) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  Twinhan IR remote control (HID_TWINHAN) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Kensington Slimblade Trackball (HID_KENSINGTON) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  LC-Power (HID_LCPOWER) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Lenovo / Thinkpad devices (HID_LENOVO) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Logitech devices (HID_LOGITECH) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
    Logitech HID++ devices support (HID_LOGITECH_HIDPP) [N/y/?] (NEW)
    Logitech force feedback support (LOGITECH_FF) [N/y/?] (NEW)
    Logitech force feedback support (variant 2) (LOGIRUMBLEPAD2_FF) [N/y/?] (NEW)
    Logitech Flight System G940 force feedback support (LOGIG940_FF) [N/y/?] (NEW)
    Logitech wheels configuration and force feedback support (LOGIWHEELS_FF) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Apple Magic Mouse/Trackpad multi-touch support (HID_MAGICMOUSE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Mayflash game controller adapter force feedback (HID_MAYFLASH) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Microsoft non-fully HID-compliant devices (HID_MICROSOFT) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  Monterey Genius KB29E keyboard (HID_MONTEREY) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  HID Multitouch panels (HID_MULTITOUCH) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  NTI keyboard adapters (HID_NTI) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Ortek PKB-1700/WKB-2000/Skycable wireless keyboard and mouse trackpad (HID_ORTEK) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Pantherlord/GreenAsia game controller (HID_PANTHERLORD) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Petalynx Maxter remote control (HID_PETALYNX) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  PicoLCD (graphic version) (HID_PICOLCD) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Plantronics USB HID Driver (HID_PLANTRONICS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Primax non-fully HID-compliant devices (HID_PRIMAX) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Saitek (Mad Catz) non-fully HID-compliant devices (HID_SAITEK) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Samsung InfraRed remote control or keyboards (HID_SAMSUNG) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Speedlink VAD Cezanne mouse support (HID_SPEEDLINK) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Steelseries SRW-S1 steering wheel support (HID_STEELSERIES) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Sunplus wireless desktop (HID_SUNPLUS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Synaptics RMI4 device support (HID_RMI) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  GreenAsia (Product ID 0x12) game controller support (HID_GREENASIA) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  SmartJoy PLUS PS2/USB adapter support (HID_SMARTJOYPLUS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  TiVo Slide Bluetooth remote control support (HID_TIVO) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  TopSeed Cyberlink, BTC Emprex, Conceptronic remote control support (HID_TOPSEED) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  ThrustMaster devices support (HID_THRUSTMASTER) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  THQ PS3 uDraw tablet (HID_UDRAW_PS3) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Xin-Mo non-fully compliant devices (HID_XINMO) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Zeroplus based game controller support (HID_ZEROPLUS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Zydacron remote control support (HID_ZYDACRON) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  HID Sensors framework support (HID_SENSOR_HUB) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Alps HID device support (HID_ALPS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* USB support
*
USB support (USB_SUPPORT) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  Support for Host-side USB (USB) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  *
  * USB port drivers
  *
  *
  * USB Physical Layer drivers
  *
  NOP USB Transceiver Driver (NOP_USB_XCEIV) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Generic ULPI Transceiver Driver (USB_ULPI) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  *
  * USB Gadget Support
  *
  USB Gadget Support (USB_GADGET) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  *
  * USB Power Delivery and Type-C drivers
  *
  USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface driver (TYPEC_UCSI) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  USB ULPI PHY interface support (USB_ULPI_BUS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Ultra Wideband devices
*
Ultra Wideband devices (UWB) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* MMC/SD/SDIO card support
*
MMC/SD/SDIO card support (MMC) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Sony MemoryStick card support
*
Sony MemoryStick card support (MEMSTICK) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* LED Support
*
LED Support (NEW_LEDS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Accessibility support
*
Accessibility support (ACCESSIBILITY) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Real Time Clock
*
Real Time Clock (RTC_CLASS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* DMA Engine support
*
DMA Engine support (DMADEVICES) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* DMABUF options
*
Explicit Synchronization Framework (SYNC_FILE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Auxiliary Display support
*
Auxiliary Display support (AUXDISPLAY) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Userspace I/O drivers
*
Userspace I/O drivers (UIO) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* VFIO Non-Privileged userspace driver framework
*
VFIO Non-Privileged userspace driver framework (VFIO) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Virtualization drivers
*
Virtualization drivers (VIRT_DRIVERS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Virtio drivers
*
Platform bus driver for memory mapped virtio devices (VIRTIO_MMIO) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Microsoft Hyper-V guest support
*
*
* Staging drivers
*
Staging drivers (STAGING) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Platform support for Goldfish virtual devices
*
Platform support for Goldfish virtual devices (GOLDFISH) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Platform support for Chrome hardware
*
Platform support for Chrome hardware (CHROME_PLATFORMS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Common Clock Framework
*
Clock driver for ARM Reference designs (COMMON_CLK_VERSATILE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
PLL Driver for HSDK platform (CLK_HSDK) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Clock driver for Freescale QorIQ platforms (CLK_QORIQ) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Clock driver for APM XGene SoC (COMMON_CLK_XGENE) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
*
* Hardware Spinlock drivers
*
Hardware Spinlock drivers (HWSPINLOCK) [N/y] (NEW)
*
* Clock Source drivers
*
Enable ARM architected timer event stream generation by default (ARM_ARCH_TIMER_EVTSTREAM) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Workaround for Freescale/NXP Erratum A-008585 (FSL_ERRATUM_A008585) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Workaround for Hisilicon Erratum 161010101 (HISILICON_ERRATUM_161010101) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Workaround for Cortex-A73 erratum 858921 (ARM64_ERRATUM_858921) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Support for Dual Timer SP804 module (ARM_TIMER_SP804) [N/y] (NEW)
*
* Mailbox Hardware Support
*
Mailbox Hardware Support (MAILBOX) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* IOMMU Hardware Support
*
IOMMU Hardware Support (IOMMU_SUPPORT) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  *
  * Generic IOMMU Pagetable Support
  *
  ARMv7/v8 Long Descriptor Format (IOMMU_IO_PGTABLE_LPAE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  ARMv7/v8 Short Descriptor Format (IOMMU_IO_PGTABLE_ARMV7S) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  ARM Ltd. System MMU (SMMU) Support (ARM_SMMU) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  ARM Ltd. System MMU Version 3 (SMMUv3) Support (ARM_SMMU_V3) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Remoteproc drivers
*
Support for Remote Processor subsystem (REMOTEPROC) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Rpmsg drivers
*
*
* SOC (System On Chip) specific Drivers
*
*
* Amlogic SoC drivers
*
*
* Broadcom SoC drivers
*
Broadcom STB SoC drivers (SOC_BRCMSTB) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* i.MX SoC drivers
*
*
* Qualcomm SoC drivers
*
*
* TI SOC drivers support
*
TI SOC drivers support (SOC_TI) [N/y] (NEW)
*
* Generic Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) support
*
Generic Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) support (PM_DEVFREQ) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* External Connector Class (extcon) support
*
External Connector Class (extcon) support (EXTCON) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Memory Controller drivers
*
Memory Controller drivers (MEMORY) [N/y] (NEW)
*
* Industrial I/O support
*
Industrial I/O support (IIO) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) Support
*
Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) Support (PWM) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* IndustryPack bus support
*
IndustryPack bus support (IPACK_BUS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Reset Controller Support
*
Reset Controller Support (RESET_CONTROLLER) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* FMC support
*
FMC support (FMC) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* PHY Subsystem
*
PHY Core (GENERIC_PHY) [N/y/?] (NEW)
APM X-Gene 15Gbps PHY support (PHY_XGENE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Broadcom Kona USB2 PHY Driver (BCM_KONA_USB2_PHY) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Marvell USB HSIC 28nm PHY Driver (PHY_PXA_28NM_HSIC) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Marvell USB 2.0 28nm PHY Driver (PHY_PXA_28NM_USB2) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Generic powercap sysfs driver
*
Generic powercap sysfs driver (POWERCAP) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* MCB support
*
MCB support (MCB) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) features
*
Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) features (RAS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Android
*
Android Drivers (ANDROID) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* NVDIMM (Non-Volatile Memory Device) Support
*
NVDIMM (Non-Volatile Memory Device) Support (LIBNVDIMM) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* DAX: direct access to differentiated memory
*
DAX: direct access to differentiated memory (DAX) [N/y] (NEW)
*
* NVMEM Support
*
NVMEM Support (NVMEM) [N/y/?] (NEW)
System Trace Module devices (STM) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Intel(R) Trace Hub controller (INTEL_TH) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* FPGA Configuration Framework
*
FPGA Configuration Framework (FPGA) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* FSI support
*
FSI support (FSI) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Trusted Execution Environment support (TEE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Firmware Drivers
*
ARM PSCI checker (ARM_PSCI_CHECKER) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Export DMI identification via sysfs to userspace (DMIID) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
DMI table support in sysfs (DMI_SYSFS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Google Firmware Drivers
*
Google Firmware Drivers (GOOGLE_FIRMWARE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) Support
*
EFI Variable Support via sysfs (EFI_VARS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
EFI capsule loader (EFI_CAPSULE_LOADER) [N/y/?] (NEW)
EFI Runtime Service Tests Support (EFI_TEST) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Reset memory attack mitigation (RESET_ATTACK_MITIGATION) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Tegra firmware driver
*
*
* File systems
*
Second extended fs support (EXT2_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
The Extended 3 (ext3) filesystem (EXT3_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
The Extended 4 (ext4) filesystem (EXT4_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Reiserfs support (REISERFS_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
JFS filesystem support (JFS_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
XFS filesystem support (XFS_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
GFS2 file system support (GFS2_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Btrfs filesystem support (BTRFS_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
NILFS2 file system support (NILFS2_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
F2FS filesystem support (F2FS_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Direct Access (DAX) support (FS_DAX) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Enable filesystem export operations for block IO (EXPORTFS_BLOCK_OPS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Enable POSIX file locking API (FILE_LOCKING) [Y/?] y
  Enable Mandatory file locking (MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
FS Encryption (Per-file encryption) (FS_ENCRYPTION) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Dnotify support (DNOTIFY) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Inotify support for userspace (INOTIFY_USER) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Filesystem wide access notification (FANOTIFY) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Quota support (QUOTA) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3) (AUTOFS4_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) support (FUSE_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Overlay filesystem support (OVERLAY_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Caches
*
General filesystem local caching manager (FSCACHE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems
*
ISO 9660 CDROM file system support (ISO9660_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
UDF file system support (UDF_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems
*
MSDOS fs support (MSDOS_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
VFAT (Windows-95) fs support (VFAT_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
NTFS file system support (NTFS_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Pseudo filesystems
*
/proc file system support (PROC_FS) [Y/?] y
  /proc/kcore support (PROC_KCORE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Include /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children file (PROC_CHILDREN) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Tmpfs virtual memory file system support (former shm fs) (TMPFS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
HugeTLB file system support (HUGETLBFS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Userspace-driven configuration filesystem (CONFIGFS_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
EFI Variable filesystem (EFIVAR_FS) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
*
* Miscellaneous filesystems
*
Miscellaneous filesystems (MISC_FILESYSTEMS) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
  ORANGEFS (Powered by PVFS) support (ORANGEFS_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  ADFS file system support (ADFS_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Amiga FFS file system support (AFFS_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Apple Macintosh file system support (HFS_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Apple Extended HFS file system support (HFSPLUS_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (BEFS_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  BFS file system support (BFS_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  EFS file system support (read only) (EFS_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs) (OBSOLETE) (CRAMFS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  SquashFS 4.0 - Squashed file system support (SQUASHFS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible) (VXFS_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Minix file system support (MINIX_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  SonicBlue Optimized MPEG File System support (OMFS_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  OS/2 HPFS file system support (HPFS_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  QNX4 file system support (read only) (QNX4FS_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  QNX6 file system support (read only) (QNX6FS_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  ROM file system support (ROMFS_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Persistent store support (PSTORE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support (SYSV_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  UFS file system support (read only) (UFS_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Native language support
*
Native language support (NLS) [Y/?] (NEW) y
  Default NLS Option (NLS_DEFAULT) [iso8859-1] (NEW)
  Codepage 437 (United States, Canada) (NLS_CODEPAGE_437) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Codepage 737 (Greek) (NLS_CODEPAGE_737) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Codepage 775 (Baltic Rim) (NLS_CODEPAGE_775) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Codepage 850 (Europe) (NLS_CODEPAGE_850) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Codepage 852 (Central/Eastern Europe) (NLS_CODEPAGE_852) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Codepage 855 (Cyrillic) (NLS_CODEPAGE_855) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Codepage 857 (Turkish) (NLS_CODEPAGE_857) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Codepage 860 (Portuguese) (NLS_CODEPAGE_860) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Codepage 861 (Icelandic) (NLS_CODEPAGE_861) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Codepage 862 (Hebrew) (NLS_CODEPAGE_862) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Codepage 863 (Canadian French) (NLS_CODEPAGE_863) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Codepage 864 (Arabic) (NLS_CODEPAGE_864) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Codepage 865 (Norwegian, Danish) (NLS_CODEPAGE_865) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Codepage 866 (Cyrillic/Russian) (NLS_CODEPAGE_866) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Codepage 869 (Greek) (NLS_CODEPAGE_869) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Simplified Chinese charset (CP936, GB2312) (NLS_CODEPAGE_936) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Traditional Chinese charset (Big5) (NLS_CODEPAGE_950) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Japanese charsets (Shift-JIS, EUC-JP) (NLS_CODEPAGE_932) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Korean charset (CP949, EUC-KR) (NLS_CODEPAGE_949) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Thai charset (CP874, TIS-620) (NLS_CODEPAGE_874) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Hebrew charsets (ISO-8859-8, CP1255) (NLS_ISO8859_8) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Windows CP1250 (Slavic/Central European Languages) (NLS_CODEPAGE_1250) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Windows CP1251 (Bulgarian, Belarusian) (NLS_CODEPAGE_1251) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  ASCII (United States) (NLS_ASCII) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  NLS ISO 8859-1  (Latin 1; Western European Languages) (NLS_ISO8859_1) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  NLS ISO 8859-2  (Latin 2; Slavic/Central European Languages) (NLS_ISO8859_2) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  NLS ISO 8859-3  (Latin 3; Esperanto, Galician, Maltese, Turkish) (NLS_ISO8859_3) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  NLS ISO 8859-4  (Latin 4; old Baltic charset) (NLS_ISO8859_4) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  NLS ISO 8859-5  (Cyrillic) (NLS_ISO8859_5) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  NLS ISO 8859-6  (Arabic) (NLS_ISO8859_6) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  NLS ISO 8859-7  (Modern Greek) (NLS_ISO8859_7) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  NLS ISO 8859-9  (Latin 5; Turkish) (NLS_ISO8859_9) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  NLS ISO 8859-13 (Latin 7; Baltic) (NLS_ISO8859_13) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  NLS ISO 8859-14 (Latin 8; Celtic) (NLS_ISO8859_14) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  NLS ISO 8859-15 (Latin 9; Western European Languages with Euro) (NLS_ISO8859_15) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  NLS KOI8-R (Russian) (NLS_KOI8_R) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  NLS KOI8-U/RU (Ukrainian, Belarusian) (NLS_KOI8_U) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Codepage macroman (NLS_MAC_ROMAN) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Codepage macceltic (NLS_MAC_CELTIC) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Codepage maccenteuro (NLS_MAC_CENTEURO) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Codepage maccroatian (NLS_MAC_CROATIAN) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Codepage maccyrillic (NLS_MAC_CYRILLIC) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Codepage macgaelic (NLS_MAC_GAELIC) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Codepage macgreek (NLS_MAC_GREEK) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Codepage maciceland (NLS_MAC_ICELAND) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Codepage macinuit (NLS_MAC_INUIT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Codepage macromanian (NLS_MAC_ROMANIAN) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  Codepage macturkish (NLS_MAC_TURKISH) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  NLS UTF-8 (NLS_UTF8) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Virtualization
*
Virtualization (VIRTUALIZATION) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Kernel hacking
*
*
* printk and dmesg options
*
Show timing information on printks (PRINTK_TIME) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Default console loglevel (1-15) (CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT) [7] (NEW)
Default message log level (1-7) (MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT) [4] (NEW)
*
* Compile-time checks and compiler options
*
Enable __deprecated logic (ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Enable __must_check logic (ENABLE_MUST_CHECK) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4) (FRAME_WARN) [2048] (NEW)
Strip assembler-generated symbols during link (STRIP_ASM_SYMS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols (UNUSED_SYMBOLS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Debug Filesystem (DEBUG_FS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux (HEADERS_CHECK) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Enable full Section mismatch analysis (DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Make section mismatch errors non-fatal (SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Compile the kernel with frame pointers (FRAME_POINTER) [Y/?] (NEW) y
Magic SysRq key (MAGIC_SYSRQ) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Kernel debugging (DEBUG_KERNEL) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Memory Debugging
*
Extend memmap on extra space for more information on page (PAGE_EXTENSION) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Poison pages after freeing (PAGE_POISONING) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Testcase for the marking rodata read-only (DEBUG_RODATA_TEST) [N/y/?] (NEW)
SLUB debugging on by default (SLUB_DEBUG_ON) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Enable SLUB performance statistics (SLUB_STATS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
KASan: runtime memory debugger (KASAN) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Code coverage for fuzzing (KCOV) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Debug Lockups and Hangs
*
Panic on Oops (PANIC_ON_OOPS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
panic timeout (PANIC_TIMEOUT) [0] (NEW)
Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking (DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)
*
Wait/wound mutex selftests (WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Stack backtrace support (STACKTRACE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness (WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* RCU Debugging
*
RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds (RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT) [21] (NEW)
*
* Tracers
*
Tracers (FTRACE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Enable debugging of DMA-API usage (DMA_API_DEBUG) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Runtime Testing
*
Perform an atomic64_t self-test (ATOMIC64_SELFTEST) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime (TEST_HEXDUMP) [N/y] (NEW)
Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime (TEST_STRING_HELPERS) [N/y] (NEW)
Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime (TEST_KSTRTOX) [N/y] (NEW)
Test printf() family of functions at runtime (TEST_PRINTF) [N/y] (NEW)
Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime (TEST_BITMAP) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime (TEST_UUID) [N/y] (NEW)
Perform selftest on resizable hash table (TEST_RHASHTABLE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Perform selftest on hash functions (TEST_HASH) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Test firmware loading via userspace interface (TEST_FIRMWARE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
sysctl test driver (TEST_SYSCTL) [N/y/?] (NEW)
udelay test driver (TEST_UDELAY) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Memtest (MEMTEST) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected (BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Sample kernel code
*
Sample kernel code (SAMPLES) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Undefined behaviour sanity checker (UBSAN) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Filter access to /dev/mem (STRICT_DEVMEM) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Write the current PID to the CONTEXTIDR register (PID_IN_CONTEXTIDR) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Randomize TEXT_OFFSET at build time (ARM64_RANDOMIZE_TEXT_OFFSET) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Warn on W+X mappings at boot (DEBUG_WX) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Align linker sections up to SECTION_SIZE (DEBUG_ALIGN_RODATA) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* CoreSight Tracing Support
*
CoreSight Tracing Support (CORESIGHT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Security options
*
Enable access key retention support (KEYS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Restrict unprivileged access to the kernel syslog (SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Enable different security models (SECURITY) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Enable the securityfs filesystem (SECURITYFS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Harden memory copies between kernel and userspace (HARDENED_USERCOPY) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Harden common str/mem functions against buffer overflows (FORTIFY_SOURCE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Force all usermode helper calls through a single binary (STATIC_USERMODEHELPER) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Default security module
> 1. Unix Discretionary Access Controls (DEFAULT_SECURITY_DAC) (NEW)
choice[1]: 1
*
* Cryptographic API
*
Cryptographic API (CRYPTO) [N/y/?] (NEW)
*
* Library routines
*
CRC-CCITT functions (CRC_CCITT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
CRC16 functions (CRC16) [N/y/?] (NEW)
CRC calculation for the T10 Data Integrity Field (CRC_T10DIF) [N/y/?] (NEW)
CRC ITU-T V.41 functions (CRC_ITU_T) [N/y/?] (NEW)
CRC32/CRC32c functions (CRC32) [Y/?] (NEW) y
  CRC32 perform self test on init (CRC32_SELFTEST) [N/y/?] (NEW)
  CRC32 implementation
  > 1. Slice by 8 bytes (CRC32_SLICEBY8) (NEW)
    2. Slice by 4 bytes (CRC32_SLICEBY4) (NEW)
    3. Sarwate's Algorithm (one byte at a time) (CRC32_SARWATE) (NEW)
    4. Classic Algorithm (one bit at a time) (CRC32_BIT) (NEW)
  choice[1-4?]: CRC4 functions (CRC4) [N/y/?] (NEW)
CRC7 functions (CRC7) [N/y/?] (NEW)
CRC32c (Castagnoli, et al) Cyclic Redundancy-Check (LIBCRC32C) [N/y/?] (NEW)
CRC8 function (CRC8) [N/y/?] (NEW)
PRNG perform self test on init (RANDOM32_SELFTEST) [N/y/?] (NEW)
XZ decompression support (XZ_DEC) [N/y/?] (NEW)
CORDIC algorithm (CORDIC) [N/y/?] (NEW)
JEDEC DDR data (DDR) [N/y/?] (NEW)
IRQ polling library (IRQ_POLL) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Test string functions (STRING_SELFTEST) [N/y] (NEW)
#
# configuration written to .config
#
root@nems:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.26#

Wow, that’s a lot of output.

Now, a quick reboot and re-connect, and then check the running kernel…

nemsadmin@nems:/tmp/test1$ cat /proc/config.gz | gunzip | grep CONFIG_FSL_ERRATUM_A008585
# CONFIG_FSL_ERRATUM_A008585 is not set
nemsadmin@nems:~$

Darn.

Strangely, the default config (my config) shows that my setting remains there…

nemsadmin@nems:/boot$ grep CONFIG_FSL_ERRATUM_A008585 /boot/config-4.14.26
CONFIG_FSL_ERRATUM_A008585=y

So maybe I just didn’t compile it correctly.

I wish someone in the threads would have posted how to actually add this. I mean, as a teacher, I try not to make assumptions. Saying to someone “set CONFIG_FSL_ERRATUM_A008585=y in your kernel” is a big assumption. Even I, the Bald Nerd, am not quite sure how to do that, yet I’m sure the people who make the statements are. Let’s instead post the actual commands or at least point the person in the right direction.

I’ll try to figure it out in the next couple days, and will post my step-by-step. I’ve posted a cry for help in the forum thread related to the Debian image I’m using. Hopefully they can point me in the right direction.

UPDATE: Ohmigosh, it just hit me… this is using make, yet I didn’t install!

Let’s try it, just for good measure:

root@nems:/usr/src# cd linux-headers-4.14.26/
root@nems:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.26# make install
scripts/kconfig/conf  --silentoldconfig Kconfig
/bin/bash ./arch/arm64/boot/install.sh 4.14.26 \
arch/arm64/boot/Image System.map "/boot"
/bin/bash: ./arch/arm64/boot/install.sh: No such file or directory
arch/arm64/boot/Makefile:40: recipe for target 'install' failed
make[1]: *** [install] Error 127
arch/arm64/Makefile:130: recipe for target 'install' failed
make: *** [install] Error 2

Grr….

root@nems:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.26# ls arch/arm64/boot/
dts  Makefile

Yeah, there’s no install.sh there.

I’m sure it’s something simple I’m missing since I’m not experienced at this kind of thing.

More to come!

NTP on Debian reporting 95 years in the future – Part 4: Back To The Past

Posted on July 6, 2018 by Robbie Ferguson

If you haven’t read part 1 yet, make sure you start there.

I had a great idea after posting part 3 last night… why not try to set the interface as static so DHCP isn’t impacted? That way, I won’t have to re-flash to an earlier image. So I stuck the SD card into my SD reader and low and behold, /etc/network/interfaces is accessible! So I commented out the DHCP line and set it instead to the static IP I have reserved for it, and low and behold, I’m up and running.

root@nems:/usr/local/share/nems/nems-scripts# cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
    iface eth0 inet static
        address 10.0.0.155
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 10.0.0.1

And to boot, get this:

nemsadmin@nems:~$ date
Fri Jul  6 19:50:58 EDT 2018

That’s right… the date is correct after booting this way.

Strangely though, there are no updates in /var/log/dpkg.log – the last entry was in 2113.

Another interesting anomaly when checking the ntp service:

root@nems:/etc/network# systemctl status ntp
● ntp.service - LSB: Start NTP daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/ntp; generated; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2113-08-28 07:22:22 EDT; 95 years 1 months left
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
    Tasks: 2 (limit: 4915)
   CGroup: /system.slice/ntp.service
           └─2006 /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -g -u 104:107

Aug 28 07:22:26 nems ntpd[2006]: Soliciting pool server 144.217.75.74
Aug 28 07:22:26 nems ntpd[2006]: Soliciting pool server 144.217.65.182
Aug 28 07:22:26 nems ntpd[2006]: Soliciting pool server 158.69.226.90
Aug 28 07:22:27 nems ntpd[2006]: Soliciting pool server 54.39.13.155
Aug 28 07:22:27 nems ntpd[2006]: Soliciting pool server 144.217.181.221
Aug 28 07:22:27 nems ntpd[2006]: Soliciting pool server 144.217.242.233
Aug 28 07:22:28 nems ntpd[2006]: Soliciting pool server 209.115.181.108
Aug 28 07:22:28 nems ntpd[2006]: Soliciting pool server 199.182.221.110
Aug 28 07:22:29 nems ntpd[2006]: Soliciting pool server 144.217.240.204
Aug 28 07:22:29 nems ntpd[2006]: Soliciting pool server 2604:a880:cad:d0::66:8001
root@nems:/etc/network#

Hmm, yeah… it has been running for over 95 years. Yet the date is correct on my system now.

root@nems:/etc/network# dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Current default time zone: 'America/New_York'
Local time is now:      Fri Jul  6 19:57:42 EDT 2018.
Universal Time is now:  Fri Jul  6 23:57:42 UTC 2018.

Hmm….

root@nems:/etc/network# uptime
 19:58:04 up 8 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.10, 0.45, 0.36

So, let’s just try…

root@nems:/etc/network# reboot
Connection to 10.0.0.155 closed by remote host.
Connection to 10.0.0.155 closed.

And… wait for it….

robbie@bekah-desktop:~$ ssh [email protected]
[email protected]'s password: 
Linux nems 4.14.26 #1 SMP Sun Mar 11 16:34:42 UTC 2018 aarch64

Last login: Fri Jul  6 19:50:54 2018 from 10.0.0.107

Sweet.

Okay, so let’s leave the server running for 24 hours and see if this is a DHCP-related issue.

To be sure, I have indeed checked my router to make sure it’s not serving up bogus NTP timestamps, and it’s all good.

What’s Next? Read Part 5:

NTP on Debian reporting 95 years in the future – Part 5: Patching the Kernel

SBC Distros I’m Working On

Posted on July 6, 2018 by Robbie Ferguson

Those who follow me closely in the SBC world know what I’m up to, generally, but I thought it’d be fun / useful to list some of my main distros I am working on.

NEMS Linux
This one is pretty darned obvious. My most popular distro to date. Learn more at https://nemslinux.com/

PlexPi
Plex Media Server for the Raspberry Pi 3/3B+. I may eventually port this to more powerful SBCs as well. I think it’d do amazingly on a RockPro64. https://plexpi.com/

Retropie-based Retro Gaming Distro for ODROID XU4 + others
Yet to be named build to port Retropie properly to the XU4 and other SBCs where it is either not yet [well] supported or onerous to configure.

Camera System
Yet to be named Raspberry Pi distro to turn any supported IP or USB camera into a sophisticated webcam ideal for weather stations, resorts, hobbyists. Not intended for surveillance, though it could be used for this too. Includes an impressive deduplication system I wrote which reduces the number of stored images by matching their image data: if there is no change in the scene, the image is not saved. Also allows stream relaying from an RTSP compatible IP camera or standard USB webcam to YouTube Live (video only), interval-based snapshots with automatic upload to web, and more. My hope is that I can turn even a Raspberry Pi Zero W into a very impressive webcam system.

Turnkey Servers
I plan to release some turnkey servers for SBC such as WordPress, LAMP, XMPP and so-on. Many of these will be in competition with existing turnkey builds, however I feel my Migrator off site backup system will help my builds stand out from the pack.

Alexa for Raspberry Pi
A fair few tutorials exist that help a user build an Alexa-powered assistant device out of a Raspberry Pi, but I’d like to see a streamlined distro built around the concept… so I’ll build one.

Which project has you most excited?