[mkroot] The repo is back on github.

[Carl Dong]

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On May 6, 2018 2:34 PM, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

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> Thanks to Carl Dong.
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> The most recent status update is on
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> https://www.patreon.com/posts/job-change-and-18518050
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> I caught up on the kernel issues, although it looks like 4.18 is probably the
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> next one that (might) build without any patches because the perl removal is
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> sitting in the arm maintainer's "fixes" branch and not getting submitted
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> upstream for 4.17. (Blah.)
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> I still want to merge mkroot into toybox, but half the existing infrastructure
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> goes away when I do that, so I guess this is of historical interest. And
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> removing the two remaining busybox commands (hush and route) is taking a while.
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> The idea for the new design is basically: 1) Eliminate busybox, 2) glue
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> module/kernel to the end of mkroot.sh, 3) Remove the download plumbing, 4) merge
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> it into toybox.
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> If the build is part of toybox we don't need to download toybox. If busybox is
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> gone we don't need to download busybox. That just leaves linux, and there's no
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> point having download infrastructure for just one package. I can have a LINUX=
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> environment variable point to the kernel source, and if that variable isn't set,
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> it'll skip the kernel build and cpio packaging.
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> That means the download, extract, and cleanup infrastructure can all go: for the
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> kernel build do the "cp -s" snapshot and then do a "make distclean" in it before
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> configure and make.
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> At that point, half the command line option parsing is unnecessary, no need for
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> "-d", no modules... but maybe I should preserve them in the old repo for posterity?
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> Anyway: toybox needs route and a shell capable of running the init script. Those
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> are the next big todo items here, then the last remnants of busybox can go away.
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> Rob
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