Some heavily (and most often improperly) modified Linux kernels may export
new APIs to userland, so as to speak to custom hardware or custom kernel
facilities.
However, we currently have no easy way to use such kernels as a source
for the linux-headers package, which precludes having those userland
headers intalled for userland applications to use them.
We do have a way for the kernel to use the same version as for the
headers, but that is definitely not enough, as the linux-headers package
has a version choice that is far less versatile and capable than that of
the linux package.
Add a new option for the linux-headers package, for the user to specify
that the version (really, the sources) of the kernel be used to install
the headers from.
We do that by making linux-headers patch-depend on the linux package.
We can't have linux-header simply depend on linux, because the simple
dependency means the the dependee will be configured, built and installed
before the dependent is configured. And since linux is a target package,
it depends on the toolchain, which internally dependes on linux-headers,
which would depend on linux, and we'd get a circular dependency.
Using patch-depend will ensure that linux is extracted and patched
before linux-headers is extracted, which is really all we need.
Then, we install the headers from the linux source tree, rather than
from linux-headers' source tree (as there's nothing in there!).
Since we need to install a private set for uClibc (see cde947f, uclibc:
prevent rebuilding after installation to staging), we explicitly set
INSTALL_HDR_PATH when calling the kernel' install-headers rule in
LINUX_HEADERS_CONFIGURE_CMDS, so that the headers are installed in
linux-headers' $(@D) instead of linux' $(@D).
Finally, as there is no way to know the kernel version in this case, we
must still prompt the user for the kernel series the headers are from
(like we do for a custom version) and check for consistency at build
time.
Note however that this still leaves users that want to built their
such-kernel outside of Buildroot out in the cold.
[Peter: drop comment as suggested by Thomas]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Karoly Kasza <kaszak@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Some fine version control systems make all files read-only. The custom DTS file
may therefore be read-only, and that permission is preserved when copying into
the Linux build directory. A subsequent rebuild tries to 'cp' again, which
fails with a "Permission denied" error unless the -f option is used.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollis_blanchard@mentor.com>
Acked-by: Nikolay Dimitrov <picmaster@mail.bg>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The perf tool installed test files in
output/target/usr/libexec/perf-core/tests/
which amounted to about 30+K.
Since they are not needed for normal perf operation, remove them.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Currently, packages that need the kernel to have support for laodable
modules have two ways to require it:
- either the use the kernel-module infra, which does it automatically,
- or they do not use it, and they need to require it manually by
setting the corresponding Makefile variable; however, they must only
set it when they are actually enabled, which makes for a slightly
cumbersome and ugly code, like:
ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_FOO),y)
LINUX_NEEDS_MODULES = y
endif
Introduce a new blind Kconfig option that packages can select to signify
they need kernel modules. That Kconfig option is then used to set the
Makefile variable.
It makes it cleaner:
- code is simpler (one Kconfig line instead of a Makefile if-block,
- this is handled at the Kconfig level, which is where we usually
handle such dependencies.
Packages will be updated in follow-up commits.
Reported-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Fix improper use of qstrip; use correct variables.
Fixes#8546.
Reported-by: craigswank@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: move the kconfig-package hunk to the
corresponding patch]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Currently, the linux.mk logic for appended DTB image does the
appending of the DTB in place, directly at the end of the zImage using
a >> sign. This is incorrect because if you run "make linux-rebuild"
multiple times, you get the DTB appended over and over again to the
image.
Since keeping the 'zImage' or 'uImage' name for the appended DTB image
is not very clear, this commit moves to using the 'zImage.<dtb>' and
'uImage.<dtb>' format. This way, we can clearly distinguish the
original image from the appended one.
In addition, this naming scheme easily allows to generate *multiple*
appended DTB images: from one zImage, you can generate multiple
zImage.<dtb> for several DTBs, and then generate (if requested) the
corresponding uImage.<dtb>.
To achieve this, this commit:
- Changes the definition of LINUX_APPENDED_DTB to iterate over
$(KERNEL_DTS_NAME), and generate a zImage.<dtb> image for each of
them.
- Changes the addition of LINUX_APPENDED_DTB for appended uImage to
also iterate over $(KERNEL_DTS_NAME).
- Provide a different implementation of LINUX_INSTALL_IMAGE which
installs all the appended DTB images (but not the bare image)
- Remove the checks that verified that only one DT name is passed
when appended DTB is used, since we now support generating multiple
DT images.
Some of the tested configuration:
- Normal uImage with several DTBs
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DEFCONFIG="mvebu_v7"
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_UIMAGE=y
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_UIMAGE_LOADADDR="0x200000"
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DTS_SUPPORT=y
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_INTREE_DTS_NAME="armada-xp-matrix armada-xp-gp armada-370-mirabox"
Contents of output/images/:
armada-370-mirabox.dtb armada-xp-gp.dtb armada-xp-matrix.dtb uImage
- Normal zImage with several DTBs
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DEFCONFIG="mvebu_v7"
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_ZIMAGE=y
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DTS_SUPPORT=y
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_INTREE_DTS_NAME="armada-xp-matrix armada-xp-gp armada-370-mirabox"
Contents of output/images:
armada-370-mirabox.dtb armada-xp-gp.dtb armada-xp-matrix.dtb zImage
- Appended uImage with several DTBs:
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DEFCONFIG="mvebu_v7"
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_APPENDED_UIMAGE=y
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_UIMAGE_LOADADDR="0x200000"
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_INTREE_DTS_NAME="armada-xp-matrix armada-xp-gp armada-370-mirabox"
Contents of output/images:
uImage.armada-370-mirabox uImage.armada-xp-gp uImage.armada-xp-matrix
- Appended zImage with several DTBs:
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DEFCONFIG="mvebu_v7"
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_APPENDED_ZIMAGE=y
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_INTREE_DTS_NAME="armada-xp-matrix armada-xp-gp armada-370-mirabox"
Contents of output/images:
zImage.armada-370-mirabox zImage.armada-xp-gp zImage.armada-xp-matrix
In all configurations, the contents of output/target/boot/ was the
same if BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_INSTALL_TARGET=y.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
When you're using the "appended DTB" mode, the Device Tree blob gets
appended to your kernel image, so there is no point in installing both
the DTB and the kernel image to the images or target directories,
installing the kernel image itself is sufficient.
Therefore, this commit disables the definition of LINUX_INSTALL_DTB
when appended DTB is used.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Currently, the LINUX_INSTALL_DTB and LINUX_INSTALL_DTB_TARGET macros
are exactly the same, except for the target directory.
Similarly, LINUX_INSTALL_KERNEL_IMAGE_TO_TARGET and
LINUX_INSTALL_IMAGES_CMDS are copying the kernel image, just to a
different place (and with a different strategy).
As a preparation for future additions, this commit de-duplicate this
code:
- LINUX_INSTALL_DTB becomes a make macro that takes one argument: the
destination directory.
- LINUX_INSTALL_IMAGE is a new make macro that also takes on
argument: the destination directory.
Both macros are used by LINUX_INSTALL_KERNEL_IMAGE_TO_TARGET and
LINUX_INSTALL_IMAGES_CMDS to respectively install to the target
directory and the images directory.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Linux for MIPS supports raw binary zboot image (vmlinuz.bin).
Add it to the "Kernel binary format" list.
Signed-off-by: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This selection will ensure that the correct host tools
will be build used for the kernel compression method used.
[Maxime: Select the compression opts in the kernel config too ]
Signed-off-by: Sagaert Johan <sagaert.johan@proximus.be>
Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
On aarch64, the image name is always Image, so let's add support for
that.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
So it doesn't conflict with host-dtc. The Linux kernel version may be a
patched version supporting E.G. overlays.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Since v4.0 the fbtft drivers are included in the linux kernel
staging area.
Signed-off-by: Peter Seiderer <ps.report@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
When a package wants to build a kernel module, we should ensure that the
kernel does support modules.
This patch does it automatically for packages using the kernel-module
infrastructure.
Packages that do not use it will have to set it manually (to be done in
a followup patch).
Suggested-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Noé Rubinstein <noe.rubinstein@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Viktorin <viktorin@rehivetech.com>
Cc: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Both of CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK and CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_MARK are needed by
xtables-addons.
Although the current code does enable them in the linux' .config file,
the former is protected behind CONFIG_NETFILTER_ADVANCED, which may be
missing from a user-supplied (def)config file, and is missing from some
of the bundled defconfigs as well.
For example, the following defconfig fails to build:
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL=y
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL=y
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DEFCONFIG="i386"
BR2_PACKAGE_XTABLES_ADDONS=y
So, also force-enable CONFIG_NETFILTER_ADVANCED.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The Linux buildsystem tries to run the compiler even just for
'kernelrelease' (which we store in LINUX_VERSION_PROBED) and we
sometimes need to use it before the toolchain is available; thus
we get spurious errors on stderr.
Consign stderr to oblivion when computing the 'kernelrelease'.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Verified that LINUX_VERSION_PROBED is only used in "-quoted commands
(actually, usually it's not quoted).
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Remove the perf package and add legacy handling.
[Thomas:
- improve the Config.in.legacy help text
- improve the comment explaining why we pass O= when building perf]
Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch is based on the patch send by James Knight:
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2015-May/128754.html
Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Cc: James Knight <james.knight@rockwellcollins.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This commit add an infrastructure to build linux kernel
tools available in the kernel sources.
Currently, the only linux kernel tool packaged in Buildroot
is perf and it's packaged as a separate generic package.
This is a problem for licence information raised in this
thread [1].
Since these tools require to build a Linux kernel, we can
use some hooks in linux package like we did for linux
extensions [2] and remove the perf package.
[1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2015-May/128783.html
[2] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2015-March/121835.html
[Thomas: fix minor typos in comments.]
Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
If we check that the user provides a config file after we call to the
kconfig-package infra, the error message we get is the one for the
kconfig-package infra, not the custom error message we want to show to
the user.
So, only call kconfig-package after we do the check. Move the check with
the existing checks for the DTS, for consistency.
[Thomas: put the checks together, but right before the kconfig-package
call, rather than in the middle of the code, were the DTS related
tests were located.]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Currently, this is triggering the error message:
make randconfig
make source
Limit the checks that enforce a DTS is set and at most one DTB is
appended to when we are actually building, like is done for the
configuration-file variables.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The ktap package requires some parts of the kernel tracing
infrastructure to be enabled, especially
CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. However, this option is a blind option in the
kernel, so enabling it in linux.mk has no effect: we need to enable a
non-blind option that selects CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. We've chosen to
select CONFIG_ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS.
This fixes the build of ktap.
[Thomas: use CONFIG_ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS as suggested by Arnout.]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
