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>
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>
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>
(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>
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>
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>
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 Xtensa architecture had been removed because it required special
handling and depended on additional directories and files that became
obsolete over time. This change is more aligned to other architectures.
[Thomas: rebased on top of the "arch: improve definition of gcc mtune,
mcpu, etc." patch].
Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
As stated in commit 555c2585bf, the
Xtensa architecture has been introduced in 2009 and never changed
since its initial introduction. It requires some special handling that
is a bit annoying, and despite our call to the initial developers, and
the announcement of the deprecation of the architecture during the
2012.05, nothing has happened. Therefore, drop support for this
architecture.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: me
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
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>
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>
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>
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>
The help text of BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DEFCONFIG is confusing: it seems to
point to the defconfigs in the buildroot tree. So explicitly refer to
the kernel tree in the help text.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
