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>
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>
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>
linux has uImage generation support for powerpc64 as well as powerpc,
since 2.6.15.
Signed-off-by: Erico Nunes <erico.nunes@datacom.ind.br>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
[Thomas: fix issues noticed by Arnout:
- Rewrap the linux/Config.in paragraph
- Revert the "is a toolchain dependency" -> "has a toolchain
dependency" change from pkg-generic.mk, as the original was
correct.]
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Several packages have some logic to apply custom patches that existed
before the BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR mechanism: at91bootstrap,
at91bootstrap3, barebox, uboot and linux. Currently, the logic of
those packages to apply custom patches is to match
<package-name>-*.patch, which is not consistent with what we've done
for patches stored in the package directory, and for patches stored in
BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR: in such cases, we simply apply *.patch.
Therefore, for consistency reasons, this commit changes these packages
to also apply *.patch.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Since BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_CONFIG_FILE can either be a complete
.config file or a defconfig file, it can be confusing to the user
whether to choose BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_USE_DEFCONFIG or
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_USE_CUSTOM_CONFIG.
To avoid that confusion, clarify Kconfig entry messages for in-tree
defconfig and custom (def)config files.
Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The help text for Linux option 'Custom tarball' only refers to ftp or
http tarballs, while in reality file or scp protocols are also
supported.
Triggered by a recent support question, update the help text to clarify
this.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
When using a custom local tree, we're using the OVERRIDE_SRCDIR
internally, which means we do not apply patches. Since this is the
expected behavior, make BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_PATCH and
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_LOCAL options exclusive.
Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The current prompt seems to imply that we want to add Device Tree
support to the Linux kernel:
[*] Device tree support
But what it really means is that Buildroot will build a DTB.
Change the prompt so that it is obvious that this is the intended
behaviour, and users do not get mislead as to why Device Tree support is
not automatically added to their Linux kernel.
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>
[Thomas: fix minor typo in help text.]
Signed-off-by: Philippe Proulx <eeppeliteloop@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
For example the upcoming qemu-xtensa patch is using this feature,
where the target is called "zImage", but the resulting kernel name
is "Image.elf".
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This enables powerpc64 and powerpc64le. Currently, le needs at least
glibc 2.19 and gcc 4.9.0. For gdb, 7.7.1 works (added in an earlier
patch).
[Peter: also disallow gcc 4.8 for ppc64le]
Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Starting from U-Boot v2014.04 ARC architecture is supported,
so now it's possible to create uImage for ARC as well.
Signed-off-by: Mischa Jonker <mjonker@synopsys.com>
Cc: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
- fix networking in Qemu using a small patch
- disable DTS, because linux.bin does not include any DTB the
default Qemu included DTB is used and this is okay and works fine
Signed-off-by: Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx@openadk.org>
Acked-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Tested-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
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>
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>
