Since all EFI-based systems support GPT, this commit changes
pc_x86_64_efi to use a GPT partition table. It shows an example of how
to craft a disk image with GPT partitioning instead of MBR. This is
achieved by means of a post-image script which uses
mkdosfs+mcopy+sfdisk, since genimage is unable to deal with GPT. Long
term, it would be ideal if genimage had GPT support, but until then,
this script shows how to achieve creating a GPT-based disk image.
The script was kept as simple as possible to make it easy to understand
and adapt for other purposes.
The root filesystem location is passed to the kernel by a partition
UUID, so it is possible to boot on QEMU, directly from the disk image,
or dump the image to a physical device.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Santos <casantos@datacom.com.br>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Before this commit, the grub configuration file was copied to the
TARGET_DIR in a post-image hook, after the filesystem has been
generated. It was kinda working because the board/pc's grub
configuration and the default one are the same and the later was
copied during the build process of the grub2 package.
This commit ensures the custom board/pc grub configuration is copied at
the right time.
Signed-off-by: Grégoire Delattre <gregoire.delattre@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matt Weber <matthew.weber@rockwellcollin.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
The default ORC unwinder requires libelf to be built. While we could
build libelf using BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_NEEDS_HOST_LIBELF, we probably
don't really need the ORC unwinder in the PC defconfigs, so let's use
the frame pointer unwinder instead.
Fixes:
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/jobs/123771107
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Add some documentation about running the pc defconfigs in qemu.
In particular, document the use of the -bios parameter to use the OVMF
firmware to test the UEFI image.
Signed-off-by: Erico Nunes <nunes.erico@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This simplifies the pc configs and respective post image scripts to use
the shared genimage script and separate grub config files.
Separate grub files are cleaner to maintain and easier to copy and
modify, for example to support booting the pc defconfigs in qemu.
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>
Since things are no longer installed in $(HOST_DIR)/usr, the callers
should also not refer to it.
This is a mechanical change with
git grep -l 'HOST_DIR}\?/usr/' board | xargs sed -i 's%\(HOST_DIR}\?\)/usr/%\1/%g'
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reusing the qemu x86-64 linux config isn't very obvious, so these defconfigs
aren't taken into consideration when the qemu defconfigs are updated,
breaking the build.
Instead use a custom linux config for the pc defconfigs. With this, we also
can get rid of the fragment file containing the delta fra the qemu config.
Created by linux-update-defconfig (after turning of the fragment file).
Also drop the linux kernel version number from the file name as it just
causes extra noise whenever the kernel is bumped.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The pc_x86_64_efi reference defconfig is targeted towards an EFI
environment but the kernel which comes with it does not enable EFI
support by default.
Booting this defconfig without kernel EFI support on a qemu virtual
machine with EFI firmware resulted in no output to tty1 or ttyS0.
Enabling EFI support in the kernel fixed this and seems saner for an EFI
reference Buildroot defconfig.
Adding CONFIG_EFI to board/pc/linux-extras.config also affects
pc_x86_64_bios_defconfig which doesn't require it, however it was
observed that the extra overhead is small and so this is preferred
rather than having a separate config file.
This was tested with qemu 2.6.0 running with kvm enabled and firmware
EFI v2.60 by EDK II. Also built and verified bios defconfig on the same
setup but with BIOS firmware instead.
Signed-off-by: Erico Nunes <nunes.erico@gmail.com>
Cc: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Acked-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The instructions listed sdcard.img as output image name but
board/pc/genimage-*.cfg generate it named as disk.img instead.
Signed-off-by: Erico Nunes <nunes.erico@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Add two new sample defconfigs oriented towards real PC targets.
It adds two variants for BIOS and EFI boot strategy.
On the build side we enable eudev to autoload relevant kernel
modules/support when necessary.
It adds a bunch of drivers and extra filesystem support which is by no
means extensive/complete, mostly geared towards the hardware i've got at
hand to test with.
This is accomplished by adding on top of the Qemu x86_64 kernel sample
config.
Build connman since by using eudev network interfaces get renamed on
boot thus complicating any form of automatic and friendly bringup.
It also makes Wi-Fi configuration/support easier.
In principle these base defconfigs should work just fine for other
storage media != pendrive like sata or ssd disk, however driver support
isn't there quite yet, and pendrive is mostly supported by usb storage
plus the usual usb host controller drivers.
Tested on old Lenovo laptop (BIOS) and Asus Zenbook (EFI).
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
