Moinak Ghosh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Simple point as John Plocher pointed out in another thread. Is it possible
> today for someone to pick up the sources and build a bootable kernel +
> userland, essentially OpenSolaris from scratch kind of thing ?
>
> This simple answer is No. It is a grey area with next to none
> documentation and clarity. Of course one can be happy with the Distro
> Constructor but you are then pulling binaries already provided by
> Oracle/SUN. We are talking about starting from source code. It took me
> 3 months of hacking madness to figure out stuff for BeleniX when I started
> off back in 2005. I believe Joerg has gone through a similar experience
> with Schillix, Martin with martUX etc.
As I was the first, it took me 6 months to come to a redistributable solution
for the OpenSolaris based SchilliX.
There was a ~ 20 page instruction on how to compile Solaris in Spring 2005, I
have no idea whether this is still available. Anyway, this instruction does not
mention what exactly is missing and how it may be substituted. To find this out
was my main work between January 2005 and June 2005.
Sun did work a lot on replacements for unredistributable code until Spring
2005 (e.g. by rewriting the TCP/IP stack), but it seems that this effert ended
soon after June 14th 2005.
There is still a lot of code left over that is not available in source.
ii8n We should port the BSD in src/lib/libc/locale/ code as it is free
enough for OpenSolaris,
a few probably missing features could be added later. Impoartant is
to test whether these features are needed frequently, or even at all.
pax We should replace it by star (this could have happened in 2005 already),
a few probably missing features could be added later. Impoartant is
to test whether these features are needed frequently, or even at all.
NFSv3 lockd, what about src/usr.sbin/rpc.lockd/ from FreeBSD?
What major problems did I miss?
Jörg
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