Curated Containers
Both Debian and Fedora containers are maintained for use with TuxMake.
Debian
TuxMake provides curated OCI containers for each of its supported native architecture/target architecture/toolchain combinations.
These containers represent Debian-based pristine Linux kernel build environments. Notably, they do not contain TuxMake itself; TuxMake merely uses them to provide what is essentially a chroot environment in which to perform a build. The containers themselves are reusable and useful without TuxMake because they're "just" Debian images with all of the Linux kernel build prerequisites built in.
The containers are defined and built from the support/docker directory in TuxMake's git repository. They are built and published automatically using a GitLab Pipeline, as defined in TuxMake's .gitlab-ci.yml. The container builds run on a regular schedule.
The full set of TuxMake's containers can be found at hub.docker.com/u/tuxmake.
NOTE
Debian 11 (bullseye) has reached LTS and henceforth only the following architectures will be officially supported:
x86_64, arm64, i386, arm
Hence, the TuxMake containers will not be updated from 8th October, 2024 for gcc-9, gcc-10, clang-11, clang-12, clang-13 and clang-14 going forward for the targets such as armv5, mips, riscv, arc, parisc, powerpc, s390, sh and sparc excluding the ones mentioned above. Though the existing containers can be used in its current form.
Fedora
CKI project maintains Fedora containers for use with TuxMake. These containers are the same ones used for production CKI pipelines, so they can be used to reproduce CKI pipeline builds.
CKI containers support the following toolchain and architecture combinations for building the kernel:
| x86_64 | aarch64 | ppc64le | s390x | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
gcc |
yes | yes | yes | yes |
clang |
yes | yes | yes | yes |
llvm |
yes | yes | no | no |
Building kernel tools is supported on the following:
| x86_64 | |
|---|---|
gcc |
yes |
clang |
yes |
llvm |
yes |
Only the versions of gcc, clang, and llvm provided by Fedora and Fedora
Rawhide are supported.
A stable Fedora image can be used by passing:
--image registry.gitlab.com/cki-project/containers/builder-fedora
The development Fedora Rawhide image can be used with:
--image registry.gitlab.com/cki-project/containers/builder-rawhide
The containers are defined in the CKI containers repository.