Add Christian Nilsson <nikize@gmail.com> as a project sponsorship
recipient, to reflect the enormous amount of time invested in
responding to issues and pull requests.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
iPXE is released under the GNU GPL and is 100% open source software.
There are no "premium editions", no in-app advertisements, and no
hidden costs. The fully public version published to GitHub is and
always will be the definitive and only version of iPXE.
Many large features in iPXE have been commercially funded within this
open source model, with features being published upstream as soon as
they are complete and made available for the whole world to use, not
restricted for use only by the customer funding that particular piece
of development work.
There has not to date been any funding model for smaller pieces of
work, such as occasional code review or guaranteed attention to bug
reports. The overhead of establishing a commercial relationship is
usually too high to be worthwhile for very small units of work.
The GitHub sponsorship mechanism provides a framework for efficiently
handling small commercial requests (or individual tokens of thanks).
Add a FUNDING.yml file to provide a convenient way for anyone who
wants to support the ongoing open source development of iPXE to do so.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The libc6-dbg:i386 package has spontaneously started failing to
install from the Azure package repositories used by the GitHub Actions
runners, with the somewhat recalcitrant error message:
libc6:i386: Depends: libgcc-s1:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Work around this unexplained issue by explicitly requesting
installation of the libgcc-s1:i386 package.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Speed up the "Install packages" step for each CI run by caching the
downloaded packages in /var/cache/apt.
Do not include libc6-dbg:i386 within the cache, since apt seems to
complain if asked to download both gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu and
libc6-dbg:i386 at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
When building as a Linux userspace application, iPXE currently
implements its own system calls to the host kernel rather than relying
on the host's C library. The output binary is statically linked and
has no external dependencies.
This matches the general philosophy of other platforms on which iPXE
runs, since there are no external libraries available on either BIOS
or UEFI bare metal. However, it would be useful for the Linux
userspace application to be able to link against host libraries such
as libslirp.
Modify the build process to perform a two-stage link: first picking
out the requested objects in the usual way from blib.a but with
relocations left present, then linking again with a helper object to
create a standard hosted application. The helper object provides the
standard main() entry point and wrappers for the Linux system calls
required by the iPXE Linux drivers and interface code.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The scheduled Coverity Scan run is triggered by an external mechanism
that synchronises the coverity_scan branch with the master branch.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
