expand documentation on supported environments

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Daniel Micay 2018-09-02 06:05:37 -04:00
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This project currently aims to support Android, musl and glibc. It may support
other non-Linux operating systems in the future. For Android and musl, there
will be custom integration and other hardening features. The glibc support will
be limited to replacing the malloc implementation because musl is a much more
robust and cleaner base to build on and can cover the same use cases.
Debian stable determines the most ancient set of supported dependencies: Debian stable determines the most ancient set of supported dependencies:
* glibc 2.24 * glibc 2.24
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the dependencies may be compatible at the moment but are not tested and will the dependencies may be compatible at the moment but are not tested and will
explicitly not be supported. explicitly not be supported.
Ports to Android (Bionic libc) and musl libc will be created later. The initial Major releases of Android will be supported until tags stop being pushed to
target is glibc for ease of development, since it supports replacing the malloc the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Google supports each major release
implementation at runtime using dynamic linking including via `LD_PRELOAD`. with security patches for 3 years, but tagged releases of the Android Open
Source Project are more than just security patches and are no longer pushed
once no officially supported devices are using them anymore. For example, at
the time of writing (September 2018), AOSP only has tagged releases for 8.1
(Nexus 5X, Nexus 5X, Pixel C) and 9.0 (Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL).
There are ongoing security patches for 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 8.0, 8.1
and 9.0 but only the active AOSP branches (8.1 and 9.0) are supported by this
project and it doesn't make much sense to use much older releases with far
less privacy and security hardening.
# Basic design # Basic design