Kernel: T5499: update arm64 kernel configuration to v6.6.15 #495
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Change Summary
As a follow-up/improvement to #421, I've meticulously compared the default Debian arm64 configuration with the VyOS x86 configuration and cherry-picked all of the changes made by Debian (for a proper working arm64 kernel) and VyOS (for all the specific VyOS tweaks). I'm not a kernel developer by any means so I may have missed one or two, but I do believe I got all the important bits.
I've verified that the resulting kernel (with some other small tweaks to make the rest of the build work) results in a stable VyOS Sagitta that has been running for a few weeks now in a VMware VM on Apple Sillicon. I specifically built a Sagitta ISO because that's what I intend to run long-term. I expect the current branch to also run fine.
If the team is interested, the changes required to get a happy Sagitta on arm64 mostly boils down to some package compilations for arm64 to be added to the sagitta package mirror, and a backport of vyos/vyos-1x@37bd574.
The kernel builds in a few minutes on an M3 Max, I don't currently have access to a x86 instance that's similarly specced as the build server to compare build times under QEMU. I unfortunately also don't have access to other ARM hardware to test.
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