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123 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Peter Korsgaard
0ffdc16e7d linux: error out early if user forgot to specify dts name(s)
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-04-15 08:55:53 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
3cab8aaeb7 linux: don't use $ in dtb comment as the shell tries to expand them
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-04-14 19:31:30 +02:00
Julien Boibessot
8215e19b53 linux: Add a load address option for building uImage on 3.7+ multi-platform kernels
[Peter: add quotes as suggested by Arnout]
Signed-off-by: Julien Boibessot <julien.boibessot@armadeus.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-03-15 10:58:13 +01:00
Maxime Ripard
88d350ca3c linux: Install the device tree in /boot when installing the kernel
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>
2013-02-19 23:30:10 +01:00
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
579fea2273 linux, uboot, mxs-bootlets, barebox: avoid double slash in CUSTOM_TARBALL
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>
2013-01-13 20:39:47 +01:00
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
a1cfe20df6 linux: fix appended dtb handling of pre/post v3.8-rc1
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>
2013-01-09 00:07:56 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
88ef92dfcb linux: fix double LINUX_APPEND_DTB
Introduced by 5b33e0b6a (linux: handle new dtb location since 3.8-rc1 for
appended dtbs).

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-01-08 10:12:02 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
5b33e0b6a1 linux: handle new dtb location since 3.8-rc1 for appended dtbs
Similar to how we've done it for seperate dtbs (ef34705087).

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-01-06 16:47:05 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
ef34705087 linux: handle new dtb location since 3.8-rc1
.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>
2012-12-21 09:07:45 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
309c2f50fa linux: simplify dtb variables
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>
2012-12-21 08:42:55 +01:00
Maxime Ripard
dd1aa62cce linux: Support multiple device tree build
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-12-20 15:25:10 +01:00
Sonic Zhang
1f299105e7 linux: Rename blackfin kernel Image file from vmImage back to uImage
Consist with other architectures.

Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2012-08-11 20:03:32 +02:00
Maxime Ripard
18e752de87 linux: Add new image formats for PowerPC and Microblaze
Add the following Linux kernel image formats:

 * cuImage(powerpc)
 * simpleImage(microblaze)
 * linux.bin(microblaze)

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2012-07-31 23:08:28 +02:00
Maxime Ripard
978928e4ac Add support for appended device tree blobs for arm
This patch adds support for the ARM-only appended device tree
mechanism present in the kernel.

This option allows to add at the end of the kernel image the
device tree blob so that we can still boot device tree enabled
kernels with old bootloaders.

This patch also adds the needed logic to genereate such an image
when building zImages or uImages, also adding the necessary parts
to rebuild the uImage.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2012-07-31 23:08:28 +02:00
Maxime Ripard
902609fbb3 Factorize the u-boot images code
This patch introduces the BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_UBOOT_IMAGE boolean to
factorize more code that will be shared in the next patches that
introduces other uImage-like targets.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2012-07-31 23:08:28 +02:00
Maxime Ripard
69fc497df0 Rework support for the device tree
This patch introduces some support for device tree-enabled kernels.

It replaces the former BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DTS_FILE option that was
microblaze-only, that was quite limited. This option was quite
limited, first obviously because it was restricted to microblaze,
but also because it targetted only external device tree source files,
and allowed only to build simpleImages using the custom image name
mechanism.

This patch adds a much more generic one, that can work on basically
every architecture that supports device tree. It allows to build
both device tree source file that comes with the kernel source or to
set the path to the device tree file to use so that one can use a
custom device tree.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2012-07-31 23:08:28 +02:00
Maxime Ripard
942fc4c554 Revert "Microblaze: build kernel with device tree"
This is way too specific to microblaze-only. Remove this support to
introduce a more generic way to do support device tree kernels.

This reverts commit aaed42d156.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2012-07-31 23:08:28 +02:00
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
e1502ebc0c all packages: rename XXXTARGETS to xxx-package
Also remove the redundant $(call ...).

This is a purely mechanical change, performed with
find package linux toolchain boot -name \*.mk | \
  xargs sed -i -e 's/$(eval $(call GENTARGETS))/$(eval $(generic-package))/' \
               -e 's/$(eval $(call AUTOTARGETS))/$(eval $(autotools-package))/' \
               -e 's/$(eval $(call CMAKETARGETS))/$(eval $(cmake-package))/'

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2012-07-17 20:23:05 +02:00
Luca Ceresoli
67f1836d27 linux: define license
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2012-07-17 19:06:32 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
707d44d0a2 linux: install dtc (device tree compiler) as host tool if selected
Having dtc as a host tool can be useful for users that have a custom
boot scenario where the device tree is not embedded in the kernel.

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 <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-05-15 22:59:20 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
f18c51657f linux: improve the 'make linux-*' special commands
This patch improves two things:

 * It makes sure that the linux-menuconfig and al. commands can be
   executed even if the user hasn't executed 'make' before. Until now,
   the commands were depending on the .configured stamp, which is not
   sufficient since the linux package has been converted to the
   GENTARGETS infrastructure. Instead, depend on the linux-configure
   phony target.

 * It makes sure that those commands are not available when the Linux
   package is not selected, just like we do for Barebox.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-05-05 08:49:02 +02:00
Maxime Ripard
90759a6636 Enable cgroups in Linux if we use systemd
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-04-02 23:14:04 +02:00
Markus Kaindl
c9ccdf877a linux.mk: .ub-File copying after building initramfs
test should exit with Exit-Code 0 if no .ub-File present and copy the
file if Exit-Code 1, otherwise make fails

Signed-off-by: Markus Kaindl <markus.kaindl@stusta.mhn.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-03-21 11:44:22 +01:00
Stephan Hoffmann
aaed42d156 Microblaze: build kernel with device tree
This patch adds the options needed to build the SimpleImage containing
the device tree structure needed for the Microblaze architecture.

Handling Device Tree and SimpleImage will be handled in a general way
in the future.

I provide this patch to be able to build the system in the meantime.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Hoffmann <sho@relinux.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-03-18 22:55:18 +01:00
Alvaro G. M
0a4856ce27 DOWNLOAD: change $1=DIRECTORY_URL, $2=FILE_NAME to $1=FULL_FILE_URL, $2=FILE_NAME
This modifies the definition of DOWNLOAD to receive two arguments:
the first one is the full URL of the file to download, whereas the second
(and optional) is the name the file will have once downloaded.

Same thing with the SOURCE_CHECK_WGET and SCP functions.

All calls to these functions have been changed to the shortest form of
the new API, except for toolchains acquisition. Since there is quite a
number of different toolchains this call to DOWNLOAD is better set to the
generic one.

Signed-off-by: Alvaro G. M <alvaro.gamez@hazent.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Tested-by: Stephan Hoffmann <sho@relinux.de>
Downloading Microblaze LE toolchain works on a clean install
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-03-18 22:21:16 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
7b911b583a linux: drop LZMA environment variable
Not used anymore.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-02-10 10:44:47 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
5ba5301cdc linux: use the depmod built in HOST_DIR
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-01-31 23:23:11 +01:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
0900c12556 linux: add linux-update-config and linux-update-defconfig targets
In analogy to build targets uclibc-update and busybox-update, add
extra targets to copy the current configuration to the custom
configuration file set in buildroot. These targets facilitate the
work of developers adding support for a specific board.

linux-update-config copies .config directly.
linux-update-defconfig first creates a defconfig and copies that.

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 <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-11-11 20:13:14 +01:00
Kelvin Cheung
c1485d51e8 Add vmlinuz support in Kernel binary format for MIPS.
Signed-off-by: Kelvin Cheung <keguang.zhang@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-10-28 10:52:31 +02:00
Gustavo Zacarias
80d7b68167 linux: bump default kernel to version 3.1
Bump default kernel vesion to 3.1 to match headers.
Also implement downloads for 3.x series kernels.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-10-24 17:49:13 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
0849e8193e package: remove useless arguments from GENTARGETS
Thanks to the pkgparentdir and pkgname functions, we can rewrite the
GENTARGETS macro in a way that avoids the need for each package to
repeat its name and the directory in which it is present.

[Peter: pkgdir->pkgparentdir]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-09-29 23:09:58 +02:00
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
13a3afc536 fs/initramfs: refactor with fs/cpio
An initramfs is in fact the same as a cpio archive, but embedded in
the kernel.  So instead of duplicating the cpio infrastructure,
we can simply build images/rootfs.cpio and link that into the
kernel.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-09-27 22:46:00 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
3011d23518 linux: Add Linux Kernel extensions menu
Add a kernel sub-menu (called "Linux Kernel Extensions"), which makes
possible to patch it or tweak the kernel build step.

 * All linux/linux-ext-*.mk files will be read by the make process.
 * The menu can be customized in "linux/Config.ext.in".

[Peter: small fixes]
Signed-off-by: Benoit Mauduit <benoit.mauduit@openwide.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-09-18 22:59:20 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
59a326b934 support: move patch-kernel.sh and rename it
The name "patch-kernel.sh" is a bit stupid, since this script is used
to patch everything in Buildroot, not only kernel trees.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-09-17 08:15:32 +02:00
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
f5777ce8fb linux: add linux/linux26-savedefconfig support
Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-08-22 22:15:35 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
7a2fa1f8db uboot-tools: add fw_printenv, rename to uboot-tools
Move fw_printenv / fw_setenv options from the uboot bootloader build to
the uboot-mkimage package, and rename it to uboot-tools.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-07-18 15:27:52 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
ea7f5ff976 linux: fix build with release candidates
Fixes *** Recursive variable `LINUX_SITE' references itself

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-07-14 16:38:07 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
f45f775b4f linux: add support for 3.x and -rc versions
The assumption that all kernels are in
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ is no longer true:
versions 3.x are in separate directories.

We now compute the directory name from the major and minor versions of
the version provided by the user. This assumes that the 3.1 version
will be in a /v3.1/ directory, which we don't know yet because the 3.1
cycle hasn't started yet.

At the same time, we add support for the official -rcX versions.

Patch tested by compiling 3.0-rc6, which Buildroot has successfully
downloaded and built.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-07-11 23:43:48 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
205fb19cdb linux: allow specification of a custom Git repository as a source
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-07-11 23:40:49 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
b0d446dee4 Improve TARGETS handling for bootloaders and kernel
As the kernel and bootloaders do not use the normal BR2_PACKAGE_*
Kconfig options, their target name was not automatically added to the
global TARGETS variable. Each bootloader .mk and the linux.mk had to
add their own target manually to TARGETS, and the package
infrastructure was making tests on non-existing Kconfig variables.

This commit improves the package infrastructure so that it looks at
BR2_PACKAGE_<pkg> for packages, BR2_TARGET_<pkg> for bootloaders and
at the special BR2_LINUX_KERNEL for the linux package.

This allows to simplify a little bit the bootloaders and linux .mk
files.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-07-11 23:40:23 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
9af0ee86b7 linux: convert to the GENTARGETS infrastructure
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-07-11 23:39:17 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
af52661d19 linux: rename LINUX26 to LINUX
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-07-11 23:38:58 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
ce03b89881 linux: simplify modules check
No need to mix make and shell code.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-07-07 23:40:09 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
eff25f4cca linux: make it possible to install the kernel in /boot
[Peter: always copy to output/images as requested by Luca]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-07-07 23:16:05 +02:00
Yegor Yefremov
726b15f64a Create menu entry to select device creation method
Four methods for the creation of device files in /dev are now
proposed:

 - static method uses device table as before
 - devtmpfs method enables this feature in kernel
 - mdev method adds mdev starting script to the file system
    and selects mdev itself for installation
 - udev method selects udev for installation

All dynamic methods are based on devtmpfs, so one doesn't need to care
about /dev folder.

Signed-off-by: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-05-09 14:20:03 +02:00
Martin Hicks
e2ed6c8e77 linux: Add support to specify special Kernel Image make target
This is useful for ARCHes like PowerPC that have a whole lot of
special targets for each different board.  The kernel image target
tells make which OpenFirmware machine description file is combined into
the kernel binary.

[Peter: fix long lines]
Signed-Off-By:  Martin Hicks <mort@bork.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-04-01 14:53:46 +02:00
Mike Frysinger
871db074b1 initial support for Blackfin processors
[Peter: don't allow MMU on bfin]
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-02-07 14:29:19 +01:00
Martin Hicks
d10e46fb76 Enable ccache for kernel compile
Just needed to pass in ccache as a prefix to the CROSS_TARGET variable.

Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <mort@bork.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-02-01 20:51:15 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
c1ce30f7f7 linux: fix linux- aliases
The generic linux-% alias conflicts with the linux-fusion package, so
add explicit aliases instead.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-12-27 22:50:18 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
e88704dfba linux: don't force IPv6 configuration in kernel
As per the discussion at
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2010-December/040030.html,
remove the bits that forced the IPv6 configuration in the kernel
depending on the toolchain ability to support (or not) IPv6. You may
have a toolchain with IPv6 support but still don't want to have IPv6
in your kernel.

The only parameters we adjust in the kernel configuration are:

 * ARM EABI, since we got a lot of bug reports regarding misconfigured
   kernel compared to the ABI used by userspace applications.

 * initramfs, since its contents are generated by Buildroot itself

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-12-22 22:19:30 +01:00
Bjørn Forsman
14c1a15fab linux: fix linux-% shortcut targets
linux-% shortcut targets (short for linux26-%) ignores the ouput dir
$(O) so that 'make O=output.arm linux-menuconfig' is actually run in the
default $(O) directory output/ and not in output.arm/. Fix by passing on
$(O) if set.

[Peter: Use EXTRAMAKEARGS]
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-12-19 21:16:37 +01:00
Bjørn Forsman
bf6fa18f4d linux: support 'make linux26-nconfig'
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-12-19 21:10:00 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
84c4a10a75 linux: add KERNEL_ARCH_PATH to fix x86-specific issue
Both i386 and x86_64 architectures are supported by the arch/x86
directory in the kernel. So, when we copy the kernel configuration
file to arch/$(KERNEL_ARCH)/configs/, it does not work because
arch/i386 and arch/x86_64 do not exist.

So, we introduce KERNEL_ARCH_PATH, which is the path to the
architecture specific directory in the kernel source tree.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-12-17 17:00:18 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
71c05023d7 linux: add support for ELF vmlinux image
The ELF vmlinux image found at the root of the kernel source tree is
the format that Qemu needs when emulating mips(el) or ppc targets, so
add support for it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-12-17 16:53:18 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
55b0a375ea linux: support a space-separated list of patches
The kernel being a component that often needs a fairly important set
of changes to be adapted to a particular hardware platform, having
maximum flexibility on the patching process is a nice
thing. Therefore, as per the discussions from the Buildroot Developer
Day, we add a mechanism to apply a list of patches (that could come
either from URLs, local files or local directories).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-12-16 22:30:18 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
fb358f7b38 linux: Import minimal defconfigs as defconfigs
Now that minimal kernel defconfigs are used in Buildroot, the problem
is that copying those minimal configuration files to .config in the
kernel source tree does not work, as kconfig will ask interactively
what should be the value for all unspecified options.

On suggestion on Sam Ravnborg, the easiest way to solve this is to
import the minimal defconfig file as a defconfig inside the kernel
tree (in arch/$(ARCH)/configs) and configure the kernel with it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-12-16 22:25:32 +01:00
Mike Frysinger
b7a2358f0b linux: restore DEPMOD usage
The linux.mk rewrite lost the DEPMOD setting while installing modules
which means depending on host-module-init-tools has been useless.
Instead, the build system has been executing /sbin/depmod.

While we're here, drop the INSTALL_MOD_PATH since LINUX26_MAKE_FLAGS
already contains it.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-12-11 22:57:07 +01:00
Mike Frysinger
176afdb3a1 linux: add shorter shortcuts
We only have one Linux kernel package, and "linux26-" is an anachronism
in today's world.  So add useful "linux-%" shortcuts to the "linux26-%".

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-12-11 02:01:10 +01:00
Mike Frysinger
56d387716a linux: set a few more initramfs opts for newer kernels
Building with linux-2.6.36 and initramfs support causes the build to
pause while it prompts for newer options (uid/gid/compression).  So
have the build system inject the newer options into the linux config
automatically.  Older versions should just ignore these.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-12-11 01:41:00 +01:00
Mike Frysinger
3bbf1c2ea6 linux: drop LDFLAGS override
The current linux code overrides LDFLAGS that the kernel itself might be
setting up. Looking at the history, there doesn't seem to be any reason
for this override. It was added in ea8b1fa6a6 without any logic.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-12-07 23:01:35 +01:00
Mike Frysinger
f80fdd2a33 linux: update paths to compiled cpio files
Linux has been using "usr/initramfs_data.cpio" for a few releases as the
generated cpio name, so the buildroot match of "...cpio.*" won't actually
clean out the previous result.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-11-17 17:22:51 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
d0c3d1cf43 sed: get rid of host-sed variant
And all the infrastructure surrounding it. A broken sed implementation
is quite rare nowadays, as seen by the fact that the current host-sed
support has been broken for a while, so just get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-09-30 23:09:39 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
96652637cc linux: fix uImage location on AVR32
On most architectures, the kernel image can be found in
arch/<ARCH>/boot, but on AVR32, it's in arch/<ARCH>/boot/images.

Issue initially reported by Joachim Pihl
<joachim.pihl@sensordevelopments.com>.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2010-09-29 00:14:21 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
b626dc0791 linux: restrict output image formats to the appropriate arches
Some Linux kernel output image formats are available on some archs,
some not. For example 'uImage' is not supported on MIPS, so let's
prevent the user from making this selection.

Issue initially reported by Choi, David <David.Choi@Micrel.Com>.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2010-09-29 00:14:21 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
3e5e39a8a2 barebox/u-boot/linux: don't error out on missing config when make source
As it breaks 'make allyesconfig; make source', used for the source mirror.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-09-28 14:43:25 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
ee3f319249 linux: don't force no initramfs
When initramfs was not selected as a root filesystem, we forcefully
disabled the initramfs in the kernel configuration.

However, it prevents an user from manually managing its initramfs, as
we override the option he has set in his kernel configuration
file. There's no real reason to do so: when initramfs is not selected
as the root filesystem, just don't touch initramfs related options in
the kernel configuration.

Problem reported by Sergey Naumov <sknaumov@gmail.com>.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-09-15 21:17:35 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
af5dc83da4 linux: more mistake detection
Just as we do for U-Boot, error out in the Linux kernel makefile when
the defconfig name or the configuration file path are not
correct. What prompted me to implement this was a report on IRC from
an user using BR 2010.05 and not understand why the kernel build
process was failing. It was because he just forgot to set the path of
the configuration file.

Of course, it doesn't catch all mistakes (like pointing to a
non-existing defconfig or to a non-existing configuration file), but
it at least catches basic mistakes.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2010-07-29 22:18:57 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
c9ff3273eb linux: linux26-{menu,x,g}config needs host-sed
Similar to how it's done for uclibc-menuconfig.

Reported-by: Paul Jones <paul@pauljones.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-07-20 08:45:45 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
f507921d39 linux: add support for initramfs
In Buildroot, the kernel is built and installed *before* the root
filesystems are built. This allows the root filesystem to correctly
contain the kernel modules that have been installed.

However, in the initramfs case, the root filesystem is part of the
kernel. Therefore, the kernel should be built *after* the root
filesystem (which, in the initramfs case simply builds a text file
listing all files/directories/devices/symlinks that should be part of
the initramfs). However, this isn't possible as the initramfs text
file would lack all kernel modules.

So, the solution choosen here is to keep the normal order: kernel is
built before the root filesystem is generated, and to add a little
quirk to retrigger a kernel compilation after the root filesystem
generation.

To do so, we add a ROOTFS_$(FSTYPE)_POST_TARGETS variable to the
fs/common.mk infrastructure. This allows individual filesystems to set
a target name that we should depend on *after* generating the root
filesystem itself (contrary to normal ROOTFS_$(FSTYPE)_DEPENDENCIES,
on which we depend *before* generating the root filesystem).

The initramfs code in fs/initramfs/initramfs.mk uses this to add a
dependency on 'linux26-rebuild-with-initramfs'.

In linux/linux.mk, we do various things :

 * If BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_INITRAMFS is enabled (i.e if initramfs is
   enabled as a root filesystem type), then we create an empty
   rootfs.initramfs file (remember that at this point, the root
   filesystem hasn't been generated) and we adjust the kernel
   configuration to include an initramfs. Of course, in the initial
   kernel build, this initramfs will be empty.

 * In the linux26-rebuild-with-initramfs target, we retrigger a
   compilation of the kernel image, after removing the initramfs in
   the kernel sources to make sure it gets properly rebuilt (we've
   experienced cases were modifying the rootfs.initramfs file wouldn't
   retrigger the generation of the initramfs at the kernel level).

This is fairly quirky, but initramfs really is a special case, so in
one way or another, we need a little quirk to solve its specialness.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2010-06-22 21:20:28 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
4944e8c883 linux: add support for linux26-{menuconfig,xconfig,gconfig} targets
These targets allow the user to customize the configuration of the
Linux kernel. After changing the kernel configuration, the next time
the user runs "make", the kernel is rebuilt to take into account the
new configuration (not rebuilt from scratch).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2010-06-22 21:20:27 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
100c09a53b linux: adjust kernel config according to the Buildroot configuration
We only adjust the configuration or ARM EABI and IPv6. The (more
complicated) initramfs case is handled in a separate commit. The user
is expected to take care of all other configuration details (like
having Netfilter enabled to make iptables work, etc.)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2010-06-22 21:20:27 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
dc4d5647a5 linux: Add dependency on host-module-init-tools
In order to not depend on module init tools being installed on the
development environment of the Buildroot user, let's build module init
tools for the host.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2010-06-22 21:20:27 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
487e21cff6 New, simpler, infrastructure for building the Linux kernel
This patch introduces a single, simple, infrastructure to build the
Linux kernel. The configuration is limited to :

 * Kernel version: a fixed recent stable version, same as kernel
   headers version (for internal toolchains only), custom stable
   version, or custom tarball URL

 * Kernel patch: either a local file, directory or an URL

 * Kernel configuration: either the name of a defconfig or the
   location of a custom configuration file

 * Kernel image: either uImage, bzImage, zImage or vmlinux.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2010-06-22 21:20:25 +02:00