[mkroot] hermatic

[scsijon]

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> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 20:48:01 -0500
> From: Rob Landley <rob at landley.net>
> To: mkroot at lists.landley.net
> Subject: [mkroot] Tagged and pushed 0.5.0.
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> Arbitrarily numered, I haven't hooked up the native build plumbing yet so this
> is about half of what I mean to do, so...
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> I'm looking at the Open Source Summit Japan CFP which closes tomorrow:
> https://linuxfoundation.smapply.io/prog/open_source_summit_japan_2018/
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> And wondering if I can get the rest of the LFS native plumbing in place in time
> to give a talk about it there. I suppose I can submit the talk and see if it's
> accepted, and then do the work if they say yes. :)
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> I tested the following architectures under qemu 2.11.0:
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>   aarch64 mips x86_64 armv5l i486 s390x armv7l i686 mipsel powerpc sh4
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> And they all booted and ran, although sh4 is a bit broken (serial UART buffer
> doesn't generate an interrupt unless it's full so you only get input you type in
> blocks of 16 characters, there's no battery backed up clock, and the emulated
> board only has 64 megs of ram). There are several more mcm-buildall.sh
> architectures that don't finish building, and those don't work yet.
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> I need to replace the rest of busybox with toybox. I need to get the kernel
> configs doing the notick thing so qemu isn't eating CPU when idle. I need to
> install make on the target and the native builds. I need to redo the
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> And I need to rename the project to "hermetic", although my current
> unicycle-shedding (I.E. bikeshedding with _myself_ because the stakes are too
> small to make a clear winner obvious) is whether I should call it just hermetic
> or "hermetic linux". (Or hermetic linux builder...)

One vote for "hermatic linux", hermatic, by itself, is too close to 
hermetic for the trademarks and copywrite people to allow, and Hermetic 
GmbH has a world registration on their name. Trust me, you DON'T want to 
get on Trademarks and Copywrite Registration's bad side!

scsijon

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> Anyway, much todo. But it's checkpointed, so I can go start tackling the kernel
> breakage in the newer versions, and... Sigh.
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> Rob
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