A new entry has been added to the "System Configuration" menu to allow
the user to set the location of additional user tables (besides the ones
defined in packages).
A user table is a text file, formatted using the mkusers syntax, which
describes the users on the target system, with their UID/GID, home
directory, password, etc.
The target root file system will be populated according the content of
these files.
Signed-off-by: Eric Le Bihan <eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: use plural TABLES; we need to remove the
intermediate users_table file, as it is no longer generated in
one shot, in case a previous run failed and did not remove it]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
[Thomas: remove BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_YAFFS_PATH option, rename to yaffs2
instead of yaffs.]
Signed-off-by: Will Wagner <willw@carallon.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Thanks to the 2 previous patches of the series, BR_PATH contains
all locations in which host-packages may install programs.
This patch replaces the occurrences TARGET_PATH and HOST_PATH with
BR_PATH, everywhere these variables are used in the *.mk files.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Since commit d1f325f554 (xzcat: treat as host prerequisite and build if
needed) host-xz is always built when the host does not have xz installed.
Removed all other host-xz dependencies.
[Peter: don't drop for host-squashfs, as that needs libxz development files]
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin+buildroot@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Reviewed-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Similar to the "fs/initramfs: fix initramfs support" commit the same
problem applies to iso9660 in a different way. By adding iso9660 to
TARGETS it gets called before target-finalize with obvious consequences.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
On commit a24877586a TARGETS_ROOTFS was
introduced, however fs/initramfs/initramfs.mk was never updated, hence a
show-targets would be rootfs-initramfs with rootfs-cpio afterwards hence
never rebuilding the kernel with a proper cpio archive since TARGETS is
always before rootfs-* as stated in the commit description.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To be able to use top-level parallel make we must not depend in a rule
on the order of evaluation of the prerequisites, so instead of relyng on
the left to right ordering of evaluation of the prerequisites add an
explicit rule to describe the dependencies.
Add explicit rules to describe the following dependency chain:
$(TARGETS) -> target-finalize -> rootfs-* -> target-post-image
Signed-off-by: Fabio Porcedda <fabio.porcedda@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
By default, the UBI FS target creates a ubinize configuration
file on-the-fly, for a single volume. Add an option to specify
a custom config file.
E.g., one might want to deploy a system with a volume for the
built ubifs image, a volume for a future upgrade image, and a
volume for user data.
Signed-off-by: Danomi Manchego <danomimanchego123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
If the Buildroot tree is read-only, then $(TARGET_DIR_WARNING_FILE) is
copied read-only into target/ but we may want to remove it during the
build process.
This poses no real problem, since target/ itself is guaranteed to be
writable, but for good measure, force $(TARGET_DIR_WARNING_FILE) to be
writable itself.
Reported-by: Danomi Manchego <danomimanchego123@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
When using a custom rootfs skeleton, the host-mkpasswd target is not
automatically built, even if some packages add users (i.e. when
PACKAGES_USERS is not empty).
In this case, the rootfs generation may fail because the mkpasswd
provided by some distribution does not support all options used in the
mkusers script.
This patch avoids such trouble by automatically adding the host-mkpasswd
package to the dependency list of the rootfs targets if users needs
to be created.
[Peter: minor rewording of commit message]
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
[Peter: remove now unused BR2_DEPRECATED_SINCE_2010_05 symbol]
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
In order to keep better track of when a feature got deprecated, and hence
when it can be removed, a new set of symbols BR2_DEPRECATED_SINCE_xxxx_xx is
introduced. These symbols are automatically selected when BR2_DEPRECATED is
selected, and thus are transparent to the user.
A deprecated feature will no longer depend on BR2_DEPRECATED directly, but
rather on the appropriate BR2_DEPRECATED_SINCE_xxxx_xx. If that symbol does
not yet exist, it has to be created in Config.in.
When removing a deprecated feature, one should also check whether this was
the last feature using the BR2_DEPRECATED_SINCE_xxxx_xx symbol, in which
case the latter can be removed from Config.in.
A followup patch will make sure the overview is added to the list of
deprecated features in the manual, so that a buildroot core developer can
easily determine which features to remove in a given development cycle.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
cset 7a58a4e (e2fsprogs: bump to version 1.42.9) broke the generation
of ext4 filesystems.
This is because, in ext4, some metadata are dependent on the UUID.
If changing the UUID of an ext4 filesystem, tune2fs now exits with
exit-code 1, and prints a message to run fsck, to avoid trashing the
filesystem.
This condition is of utmost importance on a mounted filesysten (which
is not our case) to avoid corruption (yes, it is possible to change
the UUID of a mounted filesystem).
But the error is not valid for us, since we are working on an unmonted
filesystem image in the first place.
Since we change the UUID after we convert the filesystem (to ext4),
tune2fs just bails out.
We can not just ignore the exit code of tune2fs, since we still want
to catch any other failure.
It turns out that, changing the UUID before converting the filesystem
is just the way to go.
Fixes#6752.
Reported-by: Daniel Mentz <daniel@exxm.de>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Daniel Mentz <daniel@exxm.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
When Grub is built with splashscreen support, copy the splashscreen
image to the ISO9660 filesystem. Otherwise, disable the splashscreen
in the grub menu.lst file.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
When using initramfs built into the kernel, it is useless to put an
initrd in the iso image. This patch makes the image to only contain
the kernel image, and also removes the initrd line from menu.lst
Signed-off-by: Thierry Bultel <thierry.bultel@wanadoo.fr>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The fs/iso9660 logic assumes that the Grub bootloader is
used. Therefore, it should make sure that Grub is configured with the
support for the ISO9660 filesystem.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
The ISO9660-specific Grub menu.lst contains two entries: one entry to
chainload the bootloader available in the first hard drive, and
another entry to boot the Buildroot system.
However, it defaults to booting the first entry, i.e chainloading
what's on the first hard drive. For a Buildroot generated system, this
is quite odd: we're not even booting the system built by Buildroot.
So, switch the two entries, and put the Buildroot boot entry first.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Tab instead of spaces
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch lines up the comments of packages that need a Linux kernel to be
built by buildroot, to the format:
foo needs a Linux kernel to be built
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
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>
Adds U-Boot image support for cpio root filesystems. This allows you to
use the bootm command in U-Boot to load the rootfs. It makes it possible to
verify the CRC of the initramfs before booting the kernel.
[Spenser: wrote first version of the patch.]
Signed-off-by: Spenser Gilliland <spenser@gillilanding.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Previously, a symlink was created to the uncompressed filesystem,
which made it a bit useless in case compression was chosen.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This makes the compression extension available in a variable, so it
can be used by the fs-specific commands. In this patch, it is used
by iso9660. Following patches show more use cases.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This will allow us to remove the unused ROOTFS_$(FSTYPE)_POST_GEN_HOOKS.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
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>
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>
Triggered by the 'some comment required here', this patch updates the Config.in
comments for the ubifs filesystem image options. This includes:
- 'erase block' --> 'eraseblock' (following mtd online documentation)
- remove 'UBI' prefix to make options uniform. Sometimes the option is not a
property of UBI but rather of the flash. Also, line up the name of the option
with the help of mkfs.ubifs.
- add help text on all options, referring to the mkfs.ubifs/ubinize options
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>
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>
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>
genext2fs is built only if the user selected an ext2 root filesystem.
However, some use-cases can't live with the full target/ dir on the
root filesystem, and requires separate partitions (eg. for /usr).
In this case, the user would not select an ext2 root fs in the
Buildrooot menu, and would only generate a tarball of the rootfs.
This tarball would then be used from a post-image script to build
the actual required FSes.
But then, genext2fs is not built, since the ext2 root FS was not
selected.
As for the other filesystem generators, provide a host variant of
genext2fs (genext2fs is already host-package aware, so only needs
adding a Kconfig entry).
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Turned out that setting a nil-UUID is no better than clearing it.
What currently happens is as follows:
- first, genext2fs does not generate a UUID
- then we tune2fs to upgrade the filesystem
- then we run fsck, which generates a random UUID
- then we re-run tune2fs to set a nil-UUID
So, on the target, if the file system is improperly unmounted (eg.
with a power failure), on next boot, fsck may be run, and a new
random UUID will be generated.
*However*, fsck improperly updates the filesystem when it adds the
UUID, and there are a few group descriptor checksum errors.
Those errors will go undetected until the next fsck, which will then
block for user input (bad on embedded systems, bad).
Fix that by systematically generating a random UUID _before_ we call
to fsck.
A random UUID is not so bad, after all, since there are already so
many sources of unpredictability in the filesystem: files date and
ordering, files content (date, paths...) which renders a fixed UUID
unneeded.
And it is still possible to set the UUID in a post-image script if
needed, anyway.
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>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
"tune2fs -U clear" creates an invalid filesystem, that fsck.ext2
whines about later:
$ make rootfs-ext2
[--SNIP--]
$ ./host/usr/sbin/fsck.ext4 images/rootfs.ext2
e2fsck 1.42.7 (21-Jan-2013)
Filesystem did not have a UUID; generating one.
images/rootfs.ext2: clean, 4616/5120 files, 53171/131072 blocks
$ ./host/usr/sbin/fsck.ext4 -f images/rootfs.ext2
e2fsck 1.42.7 (21-Jan-2013)
One or more block group descriptor checksums are invalid. Fix<y>? yes
Group descriptor 0 checksum is 0x4131, should be 0x8bdb. FIXED.
[--SNIP--]
So we set an explicitly NULL UUID instead.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Packages that install daemons may need those daemons to run as a non-root,
or an otherwise non-system (eg. 'daemon'), user.
Add infrastructure for packages to create users, by declaring the FOO_USERS
variable that contain a makedev-syntax-like description of the user(s) to
add.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Cam Hutchison <camh@xdna.net>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Factorize all the "depends on" into "if...endif" blocks
All the UBIFS options use "depends on BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_UBIFS" but
we can simplify the config file by enclosing them in an "if..endif"
block.
Signed-off-by: Mark Jackson <mpfj@newflow.co.uk>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Allow extra options to be passed to ubifs creation tools.
Signed-off-by: Mark Jackson <mpfj@newflow.co.uk>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Add support for LZO and XZ compression methods to cpio, ext2, tar and
ubifs filesystem targets.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
A quick test with a ~3.5MB ext4 filesystem shows that 1081 blocks isn't
enough:
tune2fs 1.42.7 (21-Jan-2013)
Please run e2fsck on the filesystem.
Creating journal inode:
Journal size too big for filesystem.
So bump it a bit. Overestimating the journal size is probably not really
a big deal for the kind of systems using ext3/4 anyway.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Set the count- and time-based checks intervals to 0, thus effectively
disabling automatic checks at boot (after a suggestion by Arnout).
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Some bootloaders have a buggy ext2 support, and require ext2 rev1
instead of the traditional ext2 rev0 that genext2fs produces.
tune2fs accepts only one '-O list' at a time, so we need to construct
a list of -O options.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Use the host-e2fsprogs to tune2fs the generated rootfs.ext2 image,
and upgrade it to either one of ext2, ext3 or ext4.
Since calling tune2fs may require running e2fsck (tune2fs will warn
to do so when certain FS options are changed), we systematically call
e2fsck. This makes the code path simpler, and as a side-effect checks
that genext2fs did not generate garbage.
In turn, e2fsck will unconditionally add a UUID to the filesystem,
which is bad for reproducibility, so we call tune2fs again to remove
the UUID. This does not require checking the filesystem.
To ensure compatibility of Buildroot's .config, leave ext2 as the
default. Boards' .config can override this at will.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Use a 'if...endif' construct instead of repeating the
'depends on' for each symbols.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Instead of explicitly listing the sub-architectures or architectures
that are big-endian, use BR2_ENDIAN directly.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Since ROOTFS_DEVICE_TABLES is a concatenation of two strings separated by
spaces, there will always be a space in it, which means it's never empty.
Therefore, when testing for empty, the condition never evaluate to false.
The following change fixes this problem; it runs qstrip on the overall
combination of the variables, causing the space to be removed if it's the
only thing left.
Tested-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin+buildroot@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
This makes things easier to understand and more consistent with the pkg-infra.
For example, it removes the need for '$$@' in the CMD variables of fs/*/*.mk.
It also makes it possible to update the variables later, e.g. in the package
override file.
It also makes sure that the date will be recorded correctly in Yann E. Morin's
patch that logs the MESSAGE macros to a file.
The fs/*/*.mk must be updated as well because the '$@' shouldn't be quoted
anymore in the CMD variables or the hooks.
The $(eval ...) for the dependencies is redundant, because the $(ROOTFS_TARGET)
variable is already eval'd. Note that it is only redundant if the evaluation of
the uses of the variable is also delayed.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
A /dev/console node must be present in rootfs when the Linux kernel
boots otherwise the kernel will print the following warning:
"Warning: unable to open an initial console"
This is because when we use an initramfs the /dev directory is not
populated at this point. This can cause problems when a program
(e.g ldso with early debugging enabled) opens a standard file
descriptor for read/write before these descriptors are actually
created by the init process later on.
Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Tested-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
A very common mistake done by our users is that they use
output/target/ directory as their root filesystem. Even though this is
loudly documented in our Buildroot manual, people don't read
documentation, so it is not sufficient.
This patch adds a text file named
output/target/THIS_IS_NOT_YOUR_ROOT_FILESYSTEM which explains why
output/target isn't appropriate to use as the root filesystem. The
process is:
* At the beginning of the build, right after the skeleton has been
copied, support/misc/target-dir-warning.txt is copied to
output/target/THIS_IS_NOT_YOUR_ROOT_FILESYSTEM
* In the filesystem images creation code, this file is removed before
launching fakeroot, and restored right after that, so that this
file is not present in the generated root filesystem images.
Note that the file has not been added to the default skeleton for two
reasons:
* It would have annoying to have in our source tree a file named in
capital letters inside system/skeleton/
* The proposed way works even if the user uses a custom skeleton.
[Peter: fixed typo]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Juha Lumme <juha.lumme@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
The ext2 initrd is pretty broken, because it requires an additional
root=/dev/ram0 command line parameter, and a /init to mount
devtmps that isn't there in out ext2 rootfs. So just use a cpio
instead.
Note that there is no check if the kernel supports initramfs or the
selected compression method.
Also removed a bit of dead code in iso9660.mk.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Recent mails on the list show that it is not very clear how to create
an initial RAM fs with buildroot. So make this more explicit in the
cpio and initramfs help texts. Hopefully this will reduce the /init
debugging we have to do.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
This directory groups the following elements:
* the default root filesystem skeleton
* the default device tables
* the Config.in options for system configuration (UART port for
getty, system hostname, etc.)
* the make rules to apply the system configuration options
Even though the skeleton and device tables could have lived in fs/, it
would have been strange to have the UART, system hostname and other
related options into fs/. A new system/ directory makes more sense.
As a consequence, this patch also removes target/Makefile.in, which
has become useless in the process.
[Peter: fixup TARGET_SKELETON settings / documentation to match]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Defaulting to UTC (which is what uClibc will default to when /etc/TZ is
missing) seems more sensible than US Mountain Time Zone in the default
rootfs skeleton.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
echo -e is not a portable way to do this, better use printf.
Works with MacOS X.
Signed-off-by: Waldemar Brodkorb <mail@waldemar-brodkorb.de>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
The www-data user is defined in fs/skeleton/etc/passwd, with gid 33. But
gid 33 is not present in the group file.
Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
There used to be a mechanism using which packages could leave a
.fakeroot.<something> file which could contain commands to be executed
within the fakeroot environment. Since this mechanism is no longer
used by any package, remove it from the common infrastructure.
The latest user was nfs-utils, which used this mechanism to do the
"make install" as root, since doing otherwise was not supported. But
since 16e7b8255c, nfs-utils has been
upgraded and converted to the package infrastructure, and this hack is
no longer necessary. Another past user was the ltp-testsuite package,
for the same reason, and since
a72a670489, the fakeroot hack is no
longer needed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Systemd introduced a new policy described here:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2011-March/001823.html
Add the "lock" group to buildroot to allow systemd to set this in place
at boot time
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
As systemd checks if /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mount or
/proc/self/mounts, we need to change it so that we can run systemd.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/tree/src/main.c#n1082
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
There are a couple of Renesas SH devices with 8 serial ports used.
Signed-off-by: Phil Edworthy <phil.edworthy@renesas.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Add a way for packages to declare files they need instead of relying
only on device tables, which creates files no matter if the package is
indeed enabled, as we can see for busybox.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
This commit follows commit ad501b66. Start up of the busybox logging
daemons were moved to an init script but the shutdown were still
performed in inittab. This commit moves the shutdown policy to an
rcK script that calls the stop function of all the init scripts in
a reversed order.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
For custom projects, it is more maintainable to add custom profile settings
in a separate file, than directly in /etc/profile.
This patch modifies /etc/profile to read in *.sh files from /etc/profile.d/,
a technique commonly used in Linux distributions.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Cramfs still passes the device table to mkcramfs, which is irrelevant
now with fakeroot, remove this behaviour and the associated patch.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
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>
Devtmpfs doesn't get automounted by the kernel when an initramfs is used.
Since cpio archives are used almost exclusively as an initramfs, the same
fix should be applied to it as for the initramfs.
Cfr. commit 424888e474 and
10a130f91e.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
As the kernel doesn't automatically mount devtmpfs when an initramfs
is used, commit 424888e474 has
introduced a small wrapper script that mounts devtmpfs before starting
the real init.
Unfortunately, the problem is that in this case, the init process runs
without any 0, 1 and 2 file descriptors, so none of the
messages/errors printed by the various initialization scripts can be
seen. This is due to the fact the init process relies on 0, 1 and 2
being opened by the kernel before init is started. However, as
/dev/console isn't present on the filesystem at the time the kernel
tries to open the console to create the 0, 1 and 2 file descriptors,
the kernel fails on this and prints the famous "Warning: unable to
open an initial console".
The proposed workaround is to actually open 0, 1 and 2 to /dev/console
in the wrapper script, right after mounting the devtmpfs filesystem,
and before starting the real init. The "Warning" from the kernel is
still shown, but at least the messages from the init scripts are
visible.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
As discussed here:
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2011-May/043251.html
Add BR2_ROOTFS_STATIC_DEVICE_TABLE for the extra device table file(s)
to create device nodes in /dev, rather than complicated logic in
BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_TABLE, making it complicated to move between static
and dynamic modes.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Devtmpfs (which is used by devtmpfs/mdev/udev options) doesn't get
automounted by the kernel when an initramfs is used, causing boot
failures when a dynamic /dev is used.
Fix it by adding a pre-init script to mount devtmpfs before running init.
Reported-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
sh2eb and sh2a_nofpueb gnuconfig targets are no longer supported
in Buildroot. This patch replaces these Buildroot targets with sh2
and sh2a respectively, and adds sh4a targets as these are widely
used.
To build for devices without an fpu, the relevant toolchain flags
will have to be specified.
Signed-off-by: Phil Edworthy <phil.edworthy@renesas.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
iso9660 used LINUX26_IMAGE_PATH, which got renamed. Adjust to match
the new name.
Reported-by: Sven Neumann <s.neumann@raumfeld.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Hardcodes policy, is not critical, and people might not have tty3
(E.G. virtual consoles) available.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
The logging mechanism startup being in inittab, it isn't easy to
overcharge the default policy. With this patch, the startup of the
syslog daemon is moved to an init.d script, that can easily be
overwritten.
[Peter: use install -D]
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
The /dev/shm directory is neither created nor mounted as tmpfs as boot
time. This will cause troubles when using named semaphores on the
system.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Instead of the current mix between system config and filesystem menus.
At the same time rename 'Target filesystem options' menu to
'Filesystem images' as it now only contains options about image formats.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
The special marker in etc/inittab might not be present with a custom
skeleton. At the same time make the option always active, remove the
hardcoded tty1/tty2 gettys and reword the option description slightly.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
This allows to have a device table for all directories/files and
another device table for the device files themselves. Both are needed
for static /dev, but only the first one is needed when
devtmpfs/mdev/udev are used.
We take this opportunity to move the documentation of the device table
format in a common location, package/makedevs/README.
[Peter: simplify code slightly, fix indentation]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
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>
Readd legacy LZMA support since older patched kernels might be using it.
Introduce an XZ target filesystem option for the new format.
[Peter: add a seperate xz target for squashfs-target as well]
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
inittab ordering causes mount to fail on remount,rw. inittab
changed to mount /proc first.
Signed-off-by: Andy Kennedy <Andy.Kennedy@AdTran.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
