X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=3cd93f01f43780f08750ba159b6dcdab5abe8bc4;hp=948bb650ad14a5256354e5316a132052f8484f0d;hb=337fa161c40f26cb7c33847d666556d28905b6a9;hpb=1a9ce3f766a03c7daab4ca7edae7533841e1721a diff --git a/README b/README index 948bb650a..3cd93f01f 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -31,13 +31,61 @@ AUTHOR: LICENSE: LGPLv2.1+ for all code - except sd-daemon.[ch] and sd-readahead.[ch] which are MIT - - except src/udev/ which is GPLv2.0+ + - except src/udev/ which is (currently still) GPLv2+ REQUIREMENTS: Linux kernel >= 2.6.39 - with devtmpfs - with cgroups (but it's OK to disable all controllers) - optional but strongly recommended: autofs4, ipv6 + CONFIG_DEVTMPFS + CONFIG_CGROUPS (it's OK to disable all controllers) + CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER + CONFIG_SIGNALFD + CONFIG_TIMERFD + CONFIG_EPOLL + CONFIG_NET + CONFIG_SYSFS + + Linux kernel >= 3.8 for Smack support + + Udev will fail to work with the legacy layout: + CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n + + Legacy hotplug slows down the system and confuses udev: + CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="" + + Userspace firmware loading is deprecated, will go away, and + sometimes causes problems: + CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n + + Some udev rules and virtualization detection relies on it: + CONFIG_DMIID + + Mount and bind mount handling might require it: + CONFIG_FHANDLE + + Optional but strongly recommended: + CONFIG_IPV6 + CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS + CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL + CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR + CONFIG_SECCOMP + + For systemd-bootchart a kernel with procfs support and several + proc output options enabled is required: + CONFIG_PROC_FS + CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS + CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG + + For UEFI systems: + CONFIG_EFI_VARS + CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION + + Note that kernel auditing is broken when used with systemd's + container code. When using systemd in conjunction with + containers please make sure to either turn off auditing at + runtime using the kernel command line option "audit=0", or + turn it off at kernel compile time using: + CONFIG_AUDIT=n + dbus >= 1.4.0 libcap libblkid >= 2.20 (from util-linux) (optional) @@ -63,13 +111,6 @@ REQUIREMENTS: dracut (optional) PolicyKit (optional) - For systmed-bootchart a kernel with procfs support and several - proc output options enabled is required: - - CONFIG_PROC_FS - CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS - CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG - When building from git you need the following additional dependencies: docbook-xsl @@ -82,6 +123,7 @@ REQUIREMENTS: gtkdocize (optional) python (optional) sphinx (optional) + python-lxml (entirely optional) When systemd-hostnamed is used it is strongly recommended to install nss-myhostname to ensure that in a world of