This way, heirloom-devtools is only linked to a libc with a CDDL-compatible
license, making it fully redistributable. Heirloom yacc doesn't work properly
with musl libc, but luckily byacc can do its job just fine, so we only need
heirloom lex now.
Thanks to the more complete libc, and bash being available, heirloom's
bootstrap is significantly simplified.
This is meant to replace heirloom yacc for compiling pre-musl parsers.
Unlike heirloom yacc, it's in the public domain, and can be linked with
meslibc without licensing concerns.
This is a continuation of the 4.14 series by the Open Enterprise Linux
Alliance, ostensibly to the same maintenance standards as the now
discontinued kernel.org LTS.
This code is primarily offered as a Git repository, with gz tarballs
also available, but no xz versions. Switching back to a gzipped version
of the kernel source code would introduce too much srcfs growth, so we
use the last kernel.org tar.xz release (4.14.336), and apply OpenELA's
changes using a patch generated from the Git repository.
This is the last LTS version buildable using GCC 4.0.x. The next one,
version 4.19, requires at least GCC 4.6.
Fortunately, this is also the first version of the Linux kernel
without firmware blobs being included in /firmware, so the FSFLA
deblob scripts aren't needed anymore to ensure a fully auditable
kernel - the 3 remaining drivers that do include blobs masquerading
as source code are removed via a patch, avoiding all the other side
effects of the deblob scripts.
This doesn't compromise the trustworthiness of the bootstrapped
environment, since all the other drivers deblob would remove use
the firmware loader mechanism, which does nothing when the actual
firmware blobs aren't installed on the system separately. Features
dependent on firmware still won't work, but many drivers that load
firmware do so only optionally. This includes r8169, the driver for
the Realtek gigabit NICs found on many x86 motherboards.
This kernel is considerably larger than 4.9.10, and we build more
of it (including drivers that would previously get stripped away by
the deblob script, such as r8169), so to accommodate that, Fiwix
initrd size is increased by 64MiB, while lowering kexec space by
the same amount to ensure enough userspace memory available in Fiwix.
Fiwix's maximum open file count is also bumped from 1.5K to 2.5K.
The Documentation folder is deleted before build, to further save
space in the ramdisk.
We spawn a shell:
- When Bash is first built, on tty2. This shell uses the old Bash,
so interactive mode needs to be emulated using redirection. Thus,
entering commands needs to be done using Enter followed by Ctrl+D,
and certain redirection features are unavailable.
- After moving the system to disk, on tty2. Old Bash, same limitations.
- After 2nd Bash is built, on tty3. This is a fully functional shell.
This is disabled in chroot-like bootstrap modes, or when -i is not set.
This was removed as part of the simplify refactor, severely slowing
down qemu and bare-metal builds. Restoring it brings us back to the
same build times that we saw before the refactor.
