A tiny bootloader bootstrap has been added to compile the builder-hex0 kernel from hex0 source.
The boot compiler is builder-hex0-x86-stage1.hex0 and builder-hex0-x86-stage1.bin.
The builder-hex0 kernel is now named builder-hex0-x86-stage2.hex0.
The inclusion of a binary seed resolves the problem with the previous strategy which used an
architecture-specific hex0 compiler.
If sysb detects a full disk (i.e. DISK=sda) it now partitions the disk unconditionally because
previously fdisk was reporting existing but empty partitions which resulted in no
parititions being created.
e2fsprogs is now built with --disable-tls because musl was built on Fiwix without full threading
support and mkfs.ext4 was crashing without disabling thread local storage.
kexec-linux writes the linux kernel and initramfs to a RAM drive on Fiwix which ensure
a pre-allocated contiguous memory block. The following is written to the ram drive:
a 32-bit number which is the size of the kernel in bytes, a 32-bit number which is the size
of the initramfs in bytes, followed by the Linux kernel image, followed by the initramfs.
kexec-fiwix invokes a sync syscall to ensure all writes are flushed to
the ram drive and then initiates the kexec by shutting down Fiwix with a reboot syscall.
Fiwix knows whether and how to perform the kexec based on kernel parameters passed to it.
The main motivations to have this are:
* Detect checksum changes with chroot/bwrap builds
* Avoid removing checksums from `SHA256SUMS.pkgs` when unsing `--update-checksums`
* Find crashes that would otherwise be missed in `builder-hex0`
Unlike make 3.80, make 3.82 makes a call to putenv which does not exist
in mes libc so a stub was created for this function.
The checksum for the util-linux package required an update.
When built with original make 3.80 it resulted in an extra file
/usr/share/man/man8/.8 that does not exist when building with 3.82
rick-masters
Paul Dersey
Andrius Štikonas
Eduardo Sánchez Muñoz
fosslinux
Dor Askayo