It seems that newer versions of the fbsplash patch work flawlessly with the current hardened kernels, see http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-559935.html Since most patches from gentoo-sources are included into hardened-sources anyway, I request that also the fbsplash patch be included.
The chances of us including this are pretty slim to none on anything but a livecd.
Sorry I did not mean to close the bug. I'll let phreak close it when he is ready.
(In reply to comment #1) > The chances of us including this are pretty slim to none on anything but a > livecd. As Ned already said, the chances are *very* slim. As I don't like to maintain a separate version besides the one in genpatches-2.6. hardened-sources is targeted to provide a *secure* environment for your applications, and by adding fbsplash we'd need to check fbsplash regularly for exploitable bugs.
When I had opened the bug, I was under the impression that including fbsplash is just a matter of auditing it once for security flaws and then taking the genpatches*.extra version. Of course, I had no idea how often fbsplash changes so that re-auditing would be necessary for each version. Sorry for the noise.
*bump* Is this still (and will always be) state of the art?
I'm willing to consider this if: 1) it doesn't compromise security, 2) it doesn't mean a lot of extra maintenance. fbsplash is nice but not necessary.
I am not very familiar with this stuff.. But i can't imagine how this could compromise security.. :? Anyhow - It's just eye-candy - But it would be nice. I think you know what i mean.... Thx for attention
(In reply to comment #7) > I am not very familiar with this stuff.. But i can't imagine how this could > compromise security.. :? > > Anyhow - It's just eye-candy - But it would be nice. I think you know what i > mean.... > > Thx for attention > I tried this and hit a kernel panic on amd64. If you want to work on it and you get it going on recent hardened-sources, I'll be willing to put more time into this, but right now I've got more important issues to address. Please reopen if you have a working patch and a brief howto.
