When mdev /dev management is chosen in the buildroot configuration, the
Linux configuration is updated automatically to set option
CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH to "/sbin/mdev". However, the help text of this
option explicitly recommends not setting this option due to large
performance impact during boot (experienced first hand by the reporter ánd
author).
The mdev startup script S10mdev already sets the helper during userspace
boot, which will make sure mdev is working correctly.
Fixes bug #6596: https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=6596
Reported-by: Andreas Koop <andreas.koop@zf.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Add the option to use a local directory as the source for
building the Linux kernel, which can be useful during
kernel development.
Signed-off-by: Rafal Fabich <rafal.fabich@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Tested-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
If $(KERNEL_SOURCE_CONFIG) is read-only (eg. because Buildroot's source
dir is), the rm of $(KERNEL_ARCH_PATH)/configs/buildroot_defconfig will
either fail, or prompt the user, both of which we want to avoid.
Make it writable by using $(INSTALL).
Fixes: #4363
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: use $(INSTALL) instead of cp, don't 'rm -f']
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
As this question has popped up multiple times on the mailing list, clarify
that selecting longterm 2.6 kernels requires the 'custom tarball' option
instead of 'custom version'.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
When one enables the generation of a cpio archive of the root
filesystem, the most likely usage is as an initramfs for the
kernel. This commit ensures that the kernel has initramfs support when
the rootfs cpio image format is chosen.
This will for example ensure that if the user selects the ISO9660
filesystem format (which uses a cpio initramfs), the kernel will have
proper support to load and use the initramfs.
It is worth mentionning that when BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_INITRAMFS is
enabled, then BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO is always enabled. That's why we
move the enabling of CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD from the initramfs case to
the cpio case.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Certain tracing related options are required to be able to build ktapvm.ko, enable those.
Enable CONFIG_FUNTCTION_TRACER as otherwise, CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING won't stick. (Some
tracer needs to be enabled for this).
[Peter: add a note to ktap Config.in explaining this is done]
Signed-off-by: Anders Darander <anders@chargestorm.se>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This patch fixes the following whitespace problems in Config.in files:
- trailing whitespace
- spaces instead of tabs for indentation
- help text not indented with tab + 2 spaces
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
When a package A depends on config option B and toolchain option C, then
the comment that is given when C is not fulfilled should also depend on B.
For example:
config BR2_PACKAGE_A
depends on BR2_B
depends on BR2_LARGEFILE
depends on BR2_WCHAR
comment "A needs a toolchain w/ largefile, wchar"
depends on !BR2_LARGEFILE || !BR2_WCHAR
This comment should actually be:
comment "A needs a toolchain w/ largefile, wchar"
depends on BR2_B
depends on !BR2_LARGEFILE || !BR2_WCHAR
or if possible (typically when B is a package config option declared in that
same Config.in file):
if BR2_B
comment "A needs a toolchain w/ largefile, wchar"
depends on !BR2_LARGEFILE || !BR2_WCHAR
[other config options depending on B]
endif
Otherwise, the comment would be visible even though the other dependencies
are not met.
This patch adds such missing dependencies, and changes existing such
dependencies from
depends on BR2_BASE_DEP && !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC
to
depends on BR2_BASE_DEP
depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC
so that (positive) base dependencies are separate from the (negative)
toolchain dependencies. This strategy makes it easier to write such comments
(because one can simply copy the base dependency from the actual package
config option), but also avoids complex and long boolean expressions.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
(untested)
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
(also fix grammatical error versions -> version)
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Although the configuration options for custom repository locations and
versions are very similar between the linux and uboot packages, there are
some minor differences. This patch lines up both packages.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Some Config.in(.host) files have constructs like:
config FOO_VERSION
string
default "1.0" if FOO_1_0
default "2.0" if FOO_2_0
default $FOO_CUSTOM_VERSION if FOO_CUSTOM
The dollar sign here is not needed and confusing, so can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This patch lines up the comments in Config.in files that clarify which
toolchain options the package depends on.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
DEPMOD is already specified in LINUX_MAKE_FLAGS, and is no longer located
in HOST_DIR/usr/sbin after the move to host-kmod, so drop it from here.
Reported-by: Ryan Coe <bluemrp9@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
The host-kmod version of depmod gets installed into HOST_DIR/sbin, so
adjust the path we use to refer to it in linux.mk
Reported-by: Ryan Coe <bluemrp9@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Make 3.82 no longer sort the result of wildcards (see
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.make.bugs/4260). This may break
build reproducibility.
This patch sort results of wildcards to ensure reproducibility.
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Pouiller <jezz@sysmic.org>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Specifying a floating tag like HEAD for a repository version is bad practice,
as it results in non-reproducible builds. This patch removes the default
assignment of HEAD as version when a custom git repository is used for the
Linux kernel.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_INSTALL_TARGET option not only copies the kernel
image to /boot, but also the DTBs, if such DTBs are generated by the
build process. It makes sense to mention that in the help text of this
option.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
When installing DTB to the images directory, do this as part of the image
install commands rather than the target install commands.
Signed-off-by: Reuben Dowle <reuben.dowle@4rf.com.az>
Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The target for building the kernel with a cpio initramfs is not
calling the append dtb commands, creating a final kernel image
without an appended dtb. Instead it needs to call kernel make on
the intermediate target, then call the append dtb commands
to produce the final image as the primary kernel build target
does.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Ford <nford@westpond.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Fixes bug #5516 - appended device tree blobs on uImage fails
Before version 3.7 of the kernel, building the zImage and then the
uImage will rewrite the zImage in the process, removing the device tree
we just appended.
Use mkimage to append the device tree to the uImage and rebuild the
headers directly.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
We're only EABI now, so we want to always build an EABI kernel
when we're building for ARM.
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: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Initramfs compression does not make much sense for the architectures
that support compressed kernel images because in this case the data
would be compressed twice. This will eventually result in a bigger
kernel image and time overhead when uncompressing it.
The only reason to use compressed initramfs is to reduce memory
usage when the kernel prepares rootfs, and both the unpacked
filesystem and initramfs.cpio are present in the memory.
Buildroot attempts to force GZIP compression for initramfs,
however it doesn't always work because initramfs compression mode
depends on RAM disk compression supported by the kernel.
Thus, CONFIG_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_GZIP depends on CONFIG_RD_GZIP.
If CONFIG_RD_GZIP is not set, setting GZIP initramfs compression
will have no effect.
Besides, the kernel also supports other compression methods,
like BZIP2, LZMA, XZ and LZO. Forcing the good old GZIP does not
really make much sense any more.
This removes initramfs compression settings from Buildroot,
so that the default value preset in the kernel config is used,
which is CONFIG_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_NONE.
If initramfs compression is still needed, it can be set
in the kernel config (using make linux-menuconfig)
Signed-off-by: Valentine Barshak <gvaxon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
When the LZO compression mode is chosen the linux kernel requires
lzop host utility at build time.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Porcedda <fabio.porcedda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Prefer xz compressed tarball so some bandwidth is saved for kernel headers
and kernel itself downloads.
Signed-off-by: Raúl Sánchez Siles <rasasi78@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Use a option name that doesn't change for every new 3.x version.
It's easier to maintain and consistent with barebox.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Porcedda <fabio.porcedda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Remove the OCF linux kernel extension instead opting to build ocf-linux
modules out of tree.
This is easier for users since no kernel config tweaking is required.
On the downside the OCF drivers can't be used, but then all of the
kernel crypto drivers are available to users via cryptosoft which is
preferred.
Also remove it from the menu to utilize a virtual.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Commit c461e64201 bumped the linux 3.8.x
stable version from 3.8.5 to 3.8.6, but did so in only one of the two places
in which the version number is hard-coded in linux/Config.in
Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
The option BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_INSTALL_TARGET used to install the kernel in
/boot in the rootfs. The introduction of the device tree builds made it
possible to generate device tree blobs, and stored them in IMAGES_DIR
like the kernel, but didn't copy the dtb in /boot when _INSTALL_TARGET
was enabled.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Closes#5846
The $(dir ...) function leaves a slash at the end, so that the LINUX_SITE
variable for a custom tarball ends in a slash. The DOWNLOAD macro adds
another slash between SITE and SOURCE, which results in a double slash in
the download URL.
Fix this by stripping off the final slash from the _SITE in all packages that
have a custom tarball.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
The $(wildcard ) doesn't work for LINUX_APPEND_DTB, because the .dtb
doesn't exist yet at that point.
Also factor the common part out.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
.dtb files are now generated in arch/$ARCH/boot/dts instead of
arch/$ARCH/boot, so extend the LINUX_INSTALL_DTB rule to look there
as well.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Only qstrip once and add a KERNEL_DTBS helper variable to simplify the dtb
rules.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
