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Avi Deitcher 18e7eea86f riscv64 kernel (#4106)
* add riscv64 kernels to kernel/Makefile and kernel/Dockerfile.*, riscv64 kernel config, bump alpine version for kernel builds

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* update bcc to v0.32.0 to include needed fixes

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* bump kernel builder alpine base to version including llvm19

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* in kernel-bcc, automatically determine python path

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* in kernel-perf, suppress newer gcc errors

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* riscv path in kernel build was incorrect

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* remove bcc compilation from kernel

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* update usages of kernel/6.6.13 to kernel/6.6.71

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* next run of updating kernel config

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* update test dependencies on kernel hash version

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The firmware package contains updated firmware files required by any driver compiled as a module. Based on the modules included in a recent LinuxKit kernel, copy the required firmware binaries as reported by 'modinfo'. We deliberately do not pick the latest version here to prevent it being updated on kernel updates. Firmware revisions do not change very often and we expect older and newer kernels to work with a range of firmware binaries.

Note: The current mechanism only handles firmware blobs required by modules and ignores firmware blobs required by drivers compiled into the kernel. However, with the LinuxKit kernels we typically compile all hardware drivers as modules.