--- a/sources/patches/alt-linux-fixppclink.patch	Sun Dec 14 04:13:44 2008 -0600
+++ /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,84 +0,0 @@
---- linux-2.6.26/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	2008-07-13 16:51:29.000000000 -0500
-+++ linux-2.6.27-rc2/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	2008-08-05 23:49:54.000000000 -0500
-@@ -9,6 +9,25 @@
- 
- ENTRY(_stext)
- 
-+PHDRS {
-+	kernel PT_LOAD FLAGS(7); /* RWX */
-+	notes PT_NOTE FLAGS(0);
-+	dummy PT_NOTE FLAGS(0);
-+
-+	/* binutils < 2.18 has a bug that makes it misbehave when taking an
-+	   ELF file with all segments at load address 0 as input.  This
-+	   happens when running "strip" on vmlinux, because of the AT() magic
-+	   in this linker script.  People using GCC >= 4.2 won't run into
-+	   this problem, because the "build-id" support will put some data
-+	   into the "notes" segment (at a non-zero load address).
-+
-+	   To work around this, we force some data into both the "dummy"
-+	   segment and the kernel segment, so the dummy segment will get a
-+	   non-zero load address.  It's not enough to always create the
-+	   "notes" segment, since if nothing gets assigned to it, its load
-+	   address will be zero.  */
-+}
-+
- #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
- OUTPUT_ARCH(powerpc:common64)
- jiffies = jiffies_64;
-@@ -35,7 +54,7 @@
- 		ALIGN_FUNCTION();
- 		*(.text.head)
- 		_text = .;
--		*(.text .fixup .text.init.refok .exit.text.refok)
-+		*(.text .fixup .text.init.refok .exit.text.refok __ftr_alt_*)
- 		SCHED_TEXT
- 		LOCK_TEXT
- 		KPROBES_TEXT
-@@ -50,7 +69,7 @@
- 		. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
- 		_etext = .;
- 		PROVIDE32 (etext = .);
--	}
-+	} :kernel
- 
- 	/* Read-only data */
- 	RODATA
-@@ -62,9 +81,13 @@
- 		__stop___ex_table = .;
- 	}
- 
--	NOTES
-+	NOTES :kernel :notes
- 
--	BUG_TABLE
-+	/* The dummy segment contents for the bug workaround mentioned above
-+	   near PHDRS.  */
-+	.dummy : AT(ADDR(.dummy) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
-+		LONG(0xf177)
-+	} :kernel :dummy
- 
- /*
-  * Init sections discarded at runtime
-@@ -76,7 +99,7 @@
- 		_sinittext = .;
- 		INIT_TEXT
- 		_einittext = .;
--	}
-+	} :kernel
- 
- 	/* .exit.text is discarded at runtime, not link time,
- 	 * to deal with references from __bug_table
-@@ -127,6 +150,12 @@
- 		*(__ftr_fixup)
- 		__stop___ftr_fixup = .;
- 	}
-+	. = ALIGN(8);
-+	__lwsync_fixup : AT(ADDR(__lwsync_fixup) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
-+		__start___lwsync_fixup = .;
-+		*(__lwsync_fixup)
-+		__stop___lwsync_fixup = .;
-+	}
- #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
- 	. = ALIGN(8);
- 	__fw_ftr_fixup : AT(ADDR(__fw_ftr_fixup) - LOAD_OFFSET) {

--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/sources/patches/alt-linux-noperl-yesreally.patch	Tue Dec 16 13:28:46 2008 -0600
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+You should not need perl to build the kernel.  Honestly.  For 17 years, you
+could build the kernel without perl.  Don't let perl metasticize throughout
+the kernel, BURN IT OUT.
+
+--- /dev/null	2008-11-21 04:46:41.000000000 -0600
++++ b/scripts/headers_install.sh	2008-12-15 22:09:45.000000000 -0600
+@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
++#!/bin/bash
++
++# Grab arguments
++
++INDIR="$1"
++shift
++OUTDIR="$1"
++shift
++ARCH="$1"
++shift
++
++# Iterate through files listed on command line
++
++for i in "$@"
++do
++  sed -r \
++    -e 's/([ \t(])(__user|__force|__iomem)[ \t]/\1/g' \
++    -e 's/__attribute_const__([ \t]|$)/\1/g' \
++    -e 's@^#include <linux/compiler.h>@@' "$INDIR/$i" |
++  scripts/unifdef -U__KERNEL__ - > "$OUTDIR/$i"
++done
++
++exit 0
+diff -r d9b501c91442 scripts/Makefile.headersinst
+--- a/scripts/Makefile.headersinst	Sun Dec 14 16:25:19 2008 -0800
++++ b/scripts/Makefile.headersinst	Mon Dec 15 23:30:15 2008 -0600
+@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@
+ quiet_cmd_install = INSTALL $(printdir) ($(words $(all-files))\
+                             file$(if $(word 2, $(all-files)),s))
+       cmd_install = \
+-        $(PERL) $< $(srctree)/$(obj) $(install) $(SRCARCH) $(header-y); \
+-        $(PERL) $< $(objtree)/$(obj) $(install) $(SRCARCH) $(objhdr-y); \
++		$(CONFIG_SHELL) $< $(srctree)/$(obj) $(install) $(SRCARCH) $(header-y); \
++		$(CONFIG_SHELL) $< $(objtree)/$(obj) $(install) $(SRCARCH) $(objhdr-y); \
+         touch $@
+ 
+ quiet_cmd_remove = REMOVE  $(unwanted)
+@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
+ 	@:
+ 
+ targets += $(install-file)
+-$(install-file): scripts/headers_install.pl $(input-files) FORCE
++$(install-file): scripts/headers_install.sh $(input-files) FORCE
+ 	$(if $(unwanted),$(call cmd,remove),)
+ 	$(if $(wildcard $(dir $@)),,$(shell mkdir -p $(dir $@)))
+ 	$(call if_changed,install)
+--- hg/scripts/headers_install.pl	2008-11-22 19:09:21.000000000 -0600
++++ /dev/null	1970-01-01 00:00:00 -0600
+@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
+-#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+-#
+-# headers_install prepare the listed header files for use in
+-# user space and copy the files to their destination.
+-#
+-# Usage: headers_install.pl readdir installdir arch [files...]
+-# readdir:    dir to open files
+-# installdir: dir to install the files
+-# arch:       current architecture
+-#             arch is used to force a reinstallation when the arch
+-#             changes because kbuild then detect a command line change.
+-# files:      list of files to check
+-#
+-# Step in preparation for users space:
+-# 1) Drop all use of compiler.h definitions
+-# 2) Drop include of compiler.h
+-# 3) Drop all sections defined out by __KERNEL__ (using unifdef)
+-
+-use strict;
+-
+-my ($readdir, $installdir, $arch, @files) = @ARGV;
+-
+-my $unifdef = "scripts/unifdef -U__KERNEL__";
+-
+-foreach my $file (@files) {
+-	local *INFILE;
+-	local *OUTFILE;
+-	my $tmpfile = "$installdir/$file.tmp";
+-	open(INFILE, "<$readdir/$file")
+-		or die "$readdir/$file: $!\n";
+-	open(OUTFILE, ">$tmpfile") or die "$tmpfile: $!\n";
+-	while (my $line = <INFILE>) {
+-		$line =~ s/([\s(])__user\s/$1/g;
+-		$line =~ s/([\s(])__force\s/$1/g;
+-		$line =~ s/([\s(])__iomem\s/$1/g;
+-		$line =~ s/\s__attribute_const__\s/ /g;
+-		$line =~ s/\s__attribute_const__$//g;
+-		$line =~ s/^#include <linux\/compiler.h>//;
+-		printf OUTFILE "%s", $line;
+-	}
+-	close OUTFILE;
+-	close INFILE;
+-	system $unifdef . " $tmpfile > $installdir/$file";
+-	unlink $tmpfile;
+-}
+-exit 0;