This commit enables the arm-uboot, arm-efi and aarch64-efi grub2
platforms in Buildroot.
With the uboot platform, the grub2 image gets built as a u-boot image
and is loaded from u-boot through a regular "bootm". The only
requirement from the u-boot side in order to allow this is that u-boot
is built with CONFIG_API enabled. CONFIG_API seems to not be enabled
by default in most in-tree configurations, however, it seems to be
available for quite some time now. So it might be possible to use this
even on older u-boot versions. This is available only for arm
(32-bit).
With the efi platform, grub2 gets built as an EFI executable. This
allows EFI firmware to find and load it similarly as it can be done
for x86_64. Also, since u-boot v2016.05, u-boot is able to load and
boot an EFI executable, so the uboot efi platform can also be used
from u-boot in recent versions. This has been enabled (mostly) by
default for ARM u-boot. efi platform is available for both arm and
aarch64.
Signed-off-by: Erico Nunes <nunes.erico@gmail.com>
[Thomas: move the BR2_USE_MMU dependency in
BR2_TARGET_GRUB2_ARCH_SUPPORTS]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Add an option to install grub2 support tools to the target.
In the context of Buildroot, some useful target tools provided are
grub2-editenv, grub2-reboot, which provide means to manage the grub2,
environment, boot order, and others.
Signed-off-by: Erico Nunes <nunes.erico@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
As discussed in the mailing list, grub2 usage notes were growing too big
for a Config.in documentation, and so it was agreed that a readme.txt in
the package directory is a better place to put them.
This commit simply moves the documentation as-is to preserve the
original contents as they were in Config.in which can be worked on in
further commits.
Signed-off-by: Erico Nunes <nunes.erico@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
After many years since the last release and a long time with grub 2.02
in beta, there is finally a release and it brings many bug fixes and
interesting features such as support for ARM.
Patch boot/grub2/0001-remove-gets.patch doesn't seem to be required
anymore as grub-core/gnulib/stdio.in.h has changed significantly since
"053cfcd Import new gnulib." and has another treatment for gets.
Patch
boot/grub2/0002-grub-core-gettext-gettext.c-main_context-secondary_c.patch
was a backport which is present after the bump and therefore is also no
longer necessary.
Since we're adding a Config.in comment, we also introduce a
BR2_TARGET_GRUB2_ARCH_SUPPORTS hidden boolean, in order to avoid
repeating the architecture dependencies.
Signed-off-by: Erico Nunes <nunes.erico@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
[Thomas: add BR2_TARGET_GRUB2_ARCH_SUPPORTS, remove bogus dependencies
on ARM and AArch64, since enabling Grub2 on those architectures is
done in another commit.]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Size growth is minimal and generally a non-issue for x86-based
platforms.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
When x86-64-efi platform is selected, grub2 automatically adds -m64 to the
CFLAGS. This makes the configure script failed when the toolchain does not
have multilib support (like the Buildroot ones).
Reported-by: Noe Rubinstein <nrubinstein@aldebaran-robotics.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The help text of grub2 explains the detailed steps to create a disk
image with grub2 installed on it. However, the steps for the
BIOS-based systems have a few minor issues fixed by this patch:
- When calling partx to get the partitions detected, we should do it
on the /dev/loop0 block device, and not on the underlying disk.img
image file.
- The grub-bios-setup utility must be called as root to work properly
on /dev/loop0.
- The steps to cleanup the partx and loop device were missing.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Since boot partition was not specified, grub tools try to detect it
automatically. This patch add an option to force it.
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Pouiller <jezz@sysmic.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Add an option for embedding a config file directly in grub.
Signed-off-by: Dima Zavin <dmitriyz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Grub 2 has been marked BROKEN in June 2010, and nobody cared to fix it
since then.
At that time, it was marked broken because the build process needed a
Ruby interpreter available on the host, and it's really a pain that
building a bootloader needs such a thing.
I've tried to upgrade the package to Grub2 1.99-rcX, and now it does
not need a Ruby interpreter anymore, but instead requires a tool
called "autogen", which itself needs the Guile Scheme interpreter.
Since we haven't heard any complaints about Grub2 being marked broken,
and since it's such a pain to package, let's get rid of it. Of course,
anybody interested in Grub2 is invited to contribute a working
package.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
The build process of grub2 breaks the compilation. It breaks with:
./configure: line 4766: syntax error near unexpected token `external'
./configure: line 4766: `AM_GNU_GETTEXT(external)'
In addition to this, it later requires Ruby. Do we really want to make
Buildroot depend on Ruby being installed on the host ? Do we really
want to build our own Ruby ? Do we even care about Grub2 ?
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Much of the grub2.mk seems to have been copy/pasted from
grub.mk. However, all the network/splashimage related ./configure
options do not exist in grub2.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
