Problem With Kernel Driver Compiled-In Data (mcx/gpu-viv)

A_Guyula — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 15:16:57 GMT

This isn't so much a question as a hope for future Kernel upgrades.
As a matter of policy, we don't like to have any identifying information written into the Kernel.
There is a useful build option KBUILD_BUILD_HOST, that can be applied to give a build host name of our choosing.
Scans through the binaries of our Kernel and module builds have shown that the mxc/gpu-viv portion of the source generates its own HOST variable instead of using the kernel option.
I know that the entire kernel source package is huge and that resources are minimal for things that are working/mature, however I was hoping that this "feature" could be perhaps modified in the Kbuild to use KBUILD_BUILD_HOST or simply removed.
For me it is extremely hard to really say what the value of the building host name has to the driver. Its only used here mxc/gpu-viv/hal/os/linux/kernel/gc_hal_kernel_device.c .

Re: Problem With Kernel Driver Compiled-In Data (mcx/gpu-viv)

AldoG — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 19:03:16 GMT

Hello,

Thank you for your comments, will take it and share it with software team for evaluation.

Best regards/Saludos,
Aldo.

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