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Move the Kernel build dependencies to package.toml to unbload the build container even more.
Build
./build.py --config package.toml --packages linux-kernel accel-ppp xxx
About
VyOS runs on a custom Linux Kernel (which is 6.6) at the time of this writing. This repository holds build scripts that are used to build the Custom Kernel (x86_64/amd64 at the moment) and all required out-of tree modules.
VyOS does not utilize the build in Intel Kernel drivers for its NICs as those Kernels sometimes lack features e.g. configurable receive-side-scaling queues. On the other hand we ship additional not mainlined features as WireGuard VPN.
Kernel
The Kernel is build from the vanilla repositories hosted at https://git.kernel.org. VyOS requires two additional patches to work which are stored in the patches/kernel folder.
Config
The Kernel configuration used is x86_64_vyos_defconfig
which will be copied on demand during the Pipeline run into the arch/x86/configsi
direcotry of the Kernel source tree.
Other configurations can be added in the future easily.
Modules
VyOS utilizes several Out-of-Tree modules (e.g. WireGuard, Accel-PPP and Intel network interface card drivers). Module source code is retrieved from the upstream repository and - when needed - patched so it can be build using this pipeline.