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Arnout Vandecappelle
c77e31e0b3 docs/manual: add 'menuconfig' to out-of-tree examples
If the examples given for launching an out-of-tree build are executed
as-is, this will result in the error message

    Please configure Buildroot first (e.g. "make menuconfig")

Even if "make menuconfig" was run before, it's still not going to work
because the out-of-tree build doesn't use the in-tree .config.

Therefore, the example really should start with some config option.
Since "make menuconfig" is used in most other examples of creating a
config, use that here as well. Extend both examples with "menuconfig".

Reported-by: AndreiCherniaev <dungeonlords789@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
2023-02-15 22:28:58 +01:00
Ricardo Martincoski
efccb2a7dd docs/manual: check-package before submitting patch
Add 'utils/docker-run make check-package' to the default workflow of
submitting patches, just after the rebase and before using format-patch.

Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Martincoski <ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
2023-02-06 18:54:18 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
f1d7155952 Cleanup/simplify copyright info
Historically we have been (more-or-less consistently, sometimes forgetting
some files) updating the end year of the copyright statements at the
beginning of a new year.

We're naturally not alone in that.  Recently this was discussed in curl, and
it turns out that copyright years are not really required:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/01/08/copyright-without-years/

So drop the years and simplify the copyright statements.  While we're at it,
also ensure the same syntax (capital C, email address) is used everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2023-01-14 21:16:07 +01:00
Zikui Zhao
a34dcba9eb docs/manual: fixed some spelling mistakes
Fixed some spelling mistakes of countable nouns.

Signed-off-by: Zikui Zhao <zhaozikui@eswincomputing.com>
Reviewed-by: Woodrow Douglass <wdouglass@carnegierobotics.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2022-12-02 20:41:13 +01:00
Julien Olivain
5ac1b1866d docs/manual: patch subjects shall not be numbered
The script "utils/check-package" checks that patch email prefix are
not be numbered. See:
https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/tree/utils/checkpackagelib/lib_patch.py?h=2022.08-rc1#n42

The error message recommends to generate patches to be included in
Buildroot with the command 'git format-patch -N'.

The patch policy section in the Buildroot manual does mention that.

This commit adds a note about that requirement.

Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2022-08-28 11:51:23 +02:00
Julien Olivain
7652817c93 docs/manual/prerequisite.txt: add findutils in dependencies
The "find" and "xargs" commands, from the "findutils" package are used
during the build process. See for example [1].

Even if it's a quite common package which is almost sure to be present
on the host, it should be listed here. When writing new recipes, hooks
and scripts, it is generally safe and portable to restrict to the
host dependencies listed in those prerequisites.

This commit just add the missing "findutils" package in this list.

[1] https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/tree/Makefile?h=2022.05.1#n737

Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
2022-08-15 22:21:33 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
ae6e144405 docs/manual/ccache-support.txt: document the new BR2_USE_CCACHE variable
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2022-07-30 13:45:16 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
a2689d901b docs/manual/ccache-support.txt: expand explanation about ccache cache location
The manual explanation seemed to imply that the cache is always in
~/.buildroot-ccache/, but it's just the default value. Clarify this
point.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2022-07-30 12:34:48 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
c857b8ff0e Makefile, docs/manual, support, toolchain: remove Eclipse integration
Back many years ago, we developed an Eclipse plugin that simplified
the usage of Buildroot toolchains. Enabling the BR2_ECLIPSE_REGISTER=y
was registering the Buildroot toolchain into a special file in your
HOME folder that the Eclipse plugin would recognize to allow to
directly use the Buildroot cross-compiler.

This Eclipse plugin has not been maintained for years. The last commit
in the repository dates back from September 2017. Since then Eclipse
has moved on, and the plugin is no longer compatible with current
versions of Eclipse.

Also, Eclipse is probably no longer that widely used in the embedded
Linux space, as other more modern IDEs have become more popular.

All in all, it's time to say good bye to this Eclipse integration.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2022-07-30 12:32:41 +02:00
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
32b341fa34 docs/manual: add integration section for systemd with dbus
Add a section to the "Integration topics" chapter about how we integrate
systemd. Add a first subsection about how dbus and dbus-broker work with
systemd.

This is just the start of the integration information about systemd.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2022-07-29 22:45:11 +02:00
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
15c972f32a docs/manual: introduce "Integration topics" chapter
We want to add more information in the manual about how a system created
with buildroot works overall. We currently already have a chapter about
SELinux, but we want to add more information like that, e.g. details
about how systemd in Buildroot works.

Create a new chapter "Integration topics" with an introductory blurb,
and move the SELinux topic under it (as a section rather than a
chapter).

"Integration topics" is not the best title, but we couldn't find
anything better.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: remove selinux from main manual.txt]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2022-07-29 22:44:10 +02:00
José Luis Salvador Rufo
f3d5916a9f docs/manual/prerequisite.txt: add diffutils
The command `cmp` is used by `package/pkg-generic.mk` at commit
8623cc5deb. This command is provided by `diffutils`, so it should be
installed on the host system.

Signed-off-by: José Luis Salvador Rufo <salvador.joseluis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
2022-07-26 23:57:16 +02:00
Fabrice Fontaine
002f0e927d docs/manual: fix patchwork URL
http://patchwork.buildroot.org is redirecting to
https://bugs.busybox.net so replace it by
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/buildroot/list/ as already done in
docs/website/contribute.html

Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2022-07-23 18:57:22 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
47f359a615 utils/get-developers: implement a -v action for DEVELOPERS file validation
Commit "45aabcddc5 utils/get-developers: really make it callable from
elsewhere than the toplevel directory" had a unforeseen side-effect:
the fact that check-developers with no arguments used to validate the
syntax of the DEVELOPERS no longer works. Indeed, the
parse_developers() call was moved *after* the check that verifies if
at least one action is passed. Due to this, the check-DEVELOPERS
verification in Gitlab CI, which invokes get-developers without
argument to validate the DEVELOPERS file... no longer does anything
useful.

In order to fix this, we introduce an explicit action in
get-developers to request the validation of the DEVELOPERS file. The
implementation is trivial, as the validation is already done by
calling parse_developers(), but at least now we have an action that
does "nothing", except execute until the validation is done.

This is also much more explicit than "invoke get-developers without
arguments to just do validation".

The initial investigation of the issue was done by Ricardo Martincoski
<ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com> and reported at
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/buildroot/patch/20220528014832.289907-1-ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com/,
but we have chosen to introduce a separate -v option rather than
making the validation part of the existing -c action, which serves a
different purpose.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
2022-07-23 16:32:58 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
4c6e7a134f docs/manual: update documentation about partition-type-uuid convention in genimage.cfg
Whenever possible, we want to use the "shortcuts" provided by genimage
for the partition-type-uuid values:

 - U for the EFI System Partition
 - F for FAT32 partitions
 - L for root filesystem partitions and other Linux filesystems

In follow-up commits, we will convert existing genimage.cfg to this
convention, except for the root filesystem, if the existing
genimage.cfg specifies a partition-type-uuid that doesn't match the
one that "L" would imply. In this case, we will keep things as-is to
not break existing setups. However, for all future genimage.cfg files,
we recommend to use "L" for the root filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2022-07-23 15:36:21 +02:00
Nicolas POIROT
5c5f30cbc7 docs/manual: fix configurations listing command
Signed-off-by: Nicolas POIROT <ni.poirot@laposte.net>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2022-06-22 22:09:26 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
793ee1011e Remove support for the NDS32 architecture
The support for this architecture has been removed from the upstream
Linux kernel, as of commit:

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=aec499c75cf8e0b599be4d559e6922b613085f8f

Which states:

  The nds32 architecture, also known as AndeStar V3, is a custom
  32-bit RISC target designed by Andes Technologies. Support was added
  to the kernel in 2016 as the replacement RISC-V based V5 processors
  were already announced, and maintained by (current or former) Andes
  employees.

  As explained by Alan Kao, new customers are now all using RISC-V,
  and all known nds32 users are already on longterm stable kernels
  provided by Andes, with no development work going into mainline
  support any more.

There has also been little to no maintenance done in Buildroot for
this architecture in recent times, so let's follow the Linux kernel
community decision and drop support for this CPU architecture.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Yu Chien Peter Lin <peterlin@andestech.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2022-06-19 18:30:45 +02:00
Quentin Schulz
dd66a2f0b1 manual: add _TARGET_FINALIZE_HOOKS in the list of hooks
While reading the docs to find hooks, I completely missed the
LIBFOO_TARGET_FINALIZE_HOOKS one which was actually matching my
use-case.

Though it is documented in a subsection a few lines below, let's also
have it in the list of supported hooks so it's not hidden away.

Cc: Quentin Schulz <foss+buildroot@0leil.net>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@theobroma-systems.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2022-06-04 11:30:42 +02:00
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
8b51205638 docs/manual/makeusers-syntax.txt: add caveat for upgrading
With the change of the range of UIDs that is generated from the
automatic ID (-1), it became apparent that there is a potential problem
with these automatic IDs when upgrading: they may have changed, which
means that persistent files that exist outside of the rootfs suddenly
have a different owner.

Add a caveat section to the manual, as well as an explanation of how to
work around the problem.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: slight rewording]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2022-05-28 23:43:15 +02:00
James Hilliard
d4723bb9bd docs/manual: document flit/pep517 python package infrastructure
Note that the flit-bootstrap SETUP_TYPE is deliberately not
documented as it is used only for bootstrapping the host pep517
toolchain and should not be used anywhere else.

Signed-off-by: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2022-05-04 21:47:37 +02:00
Yannick Brosseau
db2b8a1ce2 docs/manual: Remove link to emdebian and replace with debian port page
In the list of full distribution, the FAQ contains a link to Emdebian.
This project stopped receiving updates in 2014 and the main web page does not exist anymore.
This replace the entry with a link to the Debian ports page.

Signed-off-by: Yannick Brosseau <yannick.brosseau@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2022-03-15 22:28:01 +01:00
Giulio Benetti
1e1976a25d manual: board support: add instructions to test defconfig in the official docker
Sometimes new boards have not been tested with official docker so let's add
instructions to do it with utils/docker-run.

Cc: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Signed-off-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>
Reviewed-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2022-03-07 22:48:02 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
6b59ed35a2 package/pkg-cargo: allow building in a sub-directory
Some packages have their rust sources as a sub-directory, rather
than at the root of the source tree.

Do like we do for autotools-package, and use the package's _SRCDIR
rather than the top-level directory $(@D).

Additionally, in such a situation, it is more than probable that
the Cargo.toml is also present in that sub-directory, so use that
when vendoring the package.

Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin@orange.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2022-03-07 22:04:54 +01:00
Simon Doppler
ca9e55ad11 docs/manual: Document Kconfig requirements for uboot
When using uboot's legacy build system, the 'make uboot-menuconfig'
and 'make uboot-savedefconfig' targets are not available as they
are created by 'kconfig-package'.

Signed-off-by: Simon Doppler <dopsi@dopsi.ch>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2022-03-07 21:36:03 +01:00
Théo Lebrun
efcb7eeabc docs: fix links to AsciiDoc
Links were aimed at the methods.co.nz domain, which is now returning
404s. The current situation of AsciiDoc is unclear to me: the Fedora
package points to this website, they own asciidoc.org, Wikipedia points
to this project as well but their Git repo's README includes the
following paragraph:

> AsciiDoc.py is a legacy processor for this syntax, handling an older
> rendition of AsciiDoc. As such, this will not properly handle the
> current AsciiDoc specification. It is suggested that unless you
> specifically require the AsciiDoc.py toolchain, you should find a
> processor that handles the modern AsciiDoc syntax.

https://github.com/asciidoc-py/asciidoc-py/blob/10.1.3/README.md

"AsciiDoc specification" pointing towards:
https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/asciidoc.asciidoc-lang

Signed-off-by: Théo Lebrun <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2022-03-07 20:26:24 +01:00
Fabrice Fontaine
3d7f852ac5 docs/manual: remove override in conditional
Remove override of FOO_{CONF_OPTS,DEPENDENCIES} in conditional

Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2022-03-05 17:27:04 +01:00
Giulio Benetti
46beca0656 docs/manual: fix "+size = +" latex formatting
Signed-off-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2022-02-13 16:21:03 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
4f59ababc0 package/doc-asciidoc: fix build for out-of-tree documents
The doc-asciidoc infra allows document to define sources and resources,
and those can only be local (there is no download support for documents).
The currently documented way to specify those is to use the $(pkgdir)
macro to point to the document sources and resources when they are along
the .mk.

However, this works only for sources and not for resources.

Indeed, sources are used to generate Makefile dependency rules, so
$(pkgdir) is expanded and evaluated during the call to $(doc-asciidoc),
while resources are expanded and evaluated when the rules are executed,
which always happen after all the parsing has be done, at which point
$(pkgdir) expands to the last Makefile that was parsed, which is always
Buildroot's own manual.

This went unnoticed so far because Buildroot's manual is 1) the last to
be parsed, and 2) not using $(pkgdir) anyway.

Additionally, $(pkgdir) is mostly an internal macro, that is, as this
change demonstrates, difficult to use, and thus should not be used, in
packages or in documents.

We fix that by introducing $(FOO_DOCDIR), similar to $(FOO_PKGDIR),
which points to the document directory. We choose not to name the
variable FOO_PKGDIR, because it semantically is not a package.

As a consequence, the last argument to the doc-asciidoc macro is now
superfluous, so it is removed, which causes a little bit of churn in
the main macro. As a further consequence, the third argument in the
inner macro is no longer needed either, so it too is removed, which
causes a bit more churn yet in the inner macro.

Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin@orange.com>
Cc: Frederic GARDES <frederic.gardes@orange.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2022-02-13 12:24:02 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
2615732124 docs/manual/adding-packages-python.txt: drop <pkg>_NEEDS_HOST_PYTHON
Now that host-python2 is gone and the corresponding logic in pkg-python.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2022-02-13 12:11:50 +01:00
Giulio Benetti
a3529b8020 docs/manual/adding-packages-generic: remove useless carriage return
Signed-off-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2022-02-11 10:10:18 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
da9f2a8fda docs/manual: drop python2 references
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2022-02-09 22:16:28 +01:00
Joachim Wiberg
4fe33a1b47 docs/manual: add section on start script recommendations
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2022-02-06 16:35:53 +01:00
Norbert Lange
41ea61d59c support/scripts/mkusers: allow option for system uid/gid
Some software decides based on uid/gid whether a user is a system or
normal (human) user, with different behaviour for those flavors (example
journald [2]).

So adding logic to create system-users is necessary, we take the now
common ranges from [1].

This extends the mkusers script to allow -2 for uid/gid, this argument
will take an identifier from the user range. All identifiers used up to
now should have been from the system range, so -1 is now interpreted as
a system user/group.

Note that after this commit, all the UIDs and GIDs that are created
automatically (with -1) will change. That means if there is peristent
data on an existing system that was created by such an automatic user,
it will suddenly belong to a different user. However, this could already
happen before: if a USERS line is added to a package, then other UIDs
may change as well.

Add system/user ranges as variables, and the argument for user/system
uid variable as well. Thus some magic constants could be removed, some
further occurences of -1 were replaced with equivalent logic. For
consistency, the existing MIN/MAX_UID/GID variables are renamed to
FIRST/LAST_USER_UID/GID.

Update the documentation with the new automatic ranges.

[1] - https://systemd.io/UIDS-GIDS/
[2] - https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/journald.conf.html

Signed-off-by: Norbert Lange <nolange79@gmail.com>
[Arnout: use -1 for system users; refactor the changes a bit]
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2022-02-05 23:09:31 +01:00
Romain Naour
39458e33c1 docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt: reorder select/depends
From [1]:
"Even though the ordering has absolutely no consequences in Kconfig, it
 is not logical (when reading). It is more logical and far easier to
 understand when depends come first, followed by the selects."

 Also, the Config.in example in the manual suggests to use this coding
 style [2]."

Use the correct coding style in the chapter "Choosing depends on or select"
in the manual.

[1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2015-October/142955.html
[2] https://nightly.buildroot.org/manual.html#_coding_style

Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
2022-01-30 15:12:28 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
5da8218184 support/download: drop support for the 'none' hash
Commit 1ba85b7f87 (support/download: add explicit no-hash support)
introduced the 'none' hash type, in an attempt to make hash files
mandatory, but not failing on archives localy generated, like those
for git or svn repositories, especially for those packages where a
version choice was present, which would allow for either remote
archives for which we'd have a hash or VCS trees for which we could
not have a hash for the localy generated archive.

Indeed, back in the time, we did not have a mean to generate
reproducible archives, so having a hash file without a hash for
thosel ocally generated archives would trigger an error in the
hash-checking machinery.

But now, low-and-behold, we do know how to generate those archives,
and we have a mechanism to explicitly exclude some archives from being
hash-checked (e.g. when the version string itself can be user-provided).

As such, the 'none' hash type no longer has any raison d'être, we do not
use it in-tree, and its use in a br2-external tree is most probably
inexistent (as is the use of hash files alotgether most probably).

So we simply drop the support for that.

Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
[Thomas: drop support in checkpackagelib, as reported by Ricardo.]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
2022-01-11 21:58:01 +01:00
Patrick Havelange
9d5749d2de docs/manual/cargo: document the cargo-package infrastructure
The Buildroot manual was already providing some details on how to
integrate Cargo packages, and those details now need to be updated
with a proper documentation for the cargo-package infrastructure, as
well as updates related to vendoring support, which affects how
dependencies are handled.

In addition, now that we have vendoring support for Cargo packages,
let's rewrite the dependency management section in a more accurate
way.

We drop the part about the local cache of the registry, because
+CARGO_HOME+ in Buildroot points to $(HOST_DIR)/share/cargo, which is
not shared between builds nor preserved accross builds, so its effect
as a cache is limited.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Havelange <patrick.havelange@essensium.com>
[Thomas: numerous updates and extensions.]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
2022-01-08 23:35:40 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
ad034892d8 docs/manual/adding-packages-golang.txt: add some details about vendoring
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
2022-01-08 23:35:40 +01:00
Miquel Raynal
6a7a652b14 package/sunxi-mali-utgard: rename from sunxi-mali-mainline
This package provides Mali libraries for Sunxi Mali Utgard GPUs. The
trailing -mainline is historical and was used at a time when there was
two packages providing these libraries. The "non-upstream" package has
been removed some time ago so before adding new packages bringing
support for other ARM Mali GPU versions or implementations, rename
sunxi-mali-mainline into sunxi-mali-utgard.

Add a legacy entry.

Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>
[Giulio: rebase on master. Rename SUNXI_MALI_MAINLINE_REV to
SUNXI_MALI_UTGARD_REV in sunxi-mali-mailine-driver.mk and
BR2_PACKAGE_SUNXI_MALI_MAINLINE to BR2_PACKAGE_SUNXI_UTGARD in
sunxi-mali-mainline-driver/Config.in to respect bisectability]
Tested-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
[Build tested only]
Reviewed-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
[Arnout: also update existing select in Config.in.legacy]
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2022-01-06 19:01:51 +01:00
John Keeping
cff428fe31 download/git: support Git LFS
Git Large File Storage replaces large files with text pointers in the
Git repository while storing the contents on a remote server.  If a
repository is using this extension, then git-lfs must be used to
checkout the large files before the source archive is generated.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@metanate.com>
[vfazio:
  - add git-lfs to DL_TOOLS_DEPENDENCIES
  - fixup for 5a0d681394
    ("infra/pkg-download: make the DOWNLOAD macro fully parameterised")
]
Signed-off-by: Vincent Fazio <vfazio@xes-inc.com>
[Arnout:
 - don't "git lfs install";
 - recurse into submodules.
]
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2022-01-06 11:32:23 +01:00
Thomas Preston
16f660f8ce support/download: Add SFTP support
Add Secure File Transfer Program (SFTP) support using a simple wrapper.
SFTP is a common protocol used to transfer files securely between
enterprises, but it is not currently supported in Buildroot because all
of the packages are usually available via HTTP, git or some other
download method.

SFTP is similar to FTP but it preforms all operations over an encrypted
SSH transport using a specific protocol. This is unlike ftps, which is
traditional FTP over an SSL/TLS connection.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Preston <thomas.preston@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Michael Drake <michael.drake@codethink.co.uk>
[Arnout:
 - update documentation with sftp everywhere scp is mentioned;
 - rename "verbose" variable to "quiet";
 - print the sftp command, similar to wget and scp helpers.
]
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2022-01-06 09:34:05 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
46ccda3a2f Merge branch 'next' 2021-12-06 19:11:23 +01:00
Fabrice Fontaine
e0f6dfc4c5 docs/manual: use single space in LIBFOO_{DEVICES, PERMISSIONS}
Use single space in LIBFOO_{DEVICES,PERMISSIONS} to be consistent with
LIBFOO_USERS, package/makedevs/README and most examples/packages

Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2021-12-02 18:11:50 +01:00
Giulio Benetti
425a1e9f20 docs/manual: add allowed notations section for genimage.cfg files
Add allowed notations section for genimage.cfg files by specifying the
accepted suffix or prefix. Note that "K" has been decided to specify
KiloBytes as 1024 bytes. This has been done because in Buildroot the 90%
of the cases were using "K" and not "k".

Signed-off-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
2021-11-14 15:41:44 +01:00
Baruch Siach
fb89f86349 docs/manual: update the list of libffi unsupported archs
libffi supports ARC since commit 34c2afeb75 ("libffi: back-port support
for ARC") in 2014.

Add nds32 and ARMv7-M to the list.

Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
2021-11-14 15:02:03 +01:00
Giulio Benetti
e9c3541bad docs/manual: add genimage.cfg file coding style standard
This patch adds the explanation for the genimage.cfg files coding standard.
A real standard is not defined upstream by the genimage utility
developers[1], but I try to give one here in Buildroot for consistency.

[1]: https://github.com/pengutronix/genimage

Signed-off-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2021-11-08 23:03:55 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
a9dc2de551 docs/manual/contribute.txt: rewrite the section dedicated to runtime tests
The current documentation was poorly organized, with for example the
"Here is an example walk through of running a test case" sentence
followed by the explanation of how to list available test cases, but
not how to run one.

Many other aspects of the wording were confusing, or not really
accurate.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2021-10-27 21:44:51 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
18bbeefb99 docs/manual/contribute.txt: fix typo
The directory that containts tests is "support/testing/tests/", not
"supporting/testing/test".

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2021-10-27 21:33:20 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
23186356a1 support/scripts/generate-gitlab-ci-yml: allow multiple tests in one pipeline
The current Gitlab CI mechanism allows to trigger all tests in a CI
pipeline by pushing a branch named <something>-runtime-tests, or to
trigger a single test in a CI pipeline by pushing a branch name
<something>-tests.<name of test>.

However, there are cases where it is useful to run a suite of tests,
for example to run all tests in tests.init.test_busybox.

This commit makes that possible by extending the current semantic of
<something>-tests.<name of test> to not expect a complete test name,
but instead to accept all tests that starts with the given pattern.

This allows to do:

  git push gitlab HEAD:foobar-tests.init.test_busybox.TestInitSystemBusyboxRo

like it was the case before. But it now also allows to do:

  git push gitlab HEAD:foobar-tests.init.test_busybox

to run all Busybox tests.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2021-10-27 21:31:49 +02:00
Raphaël Mélotte
226d5b3b95 docs/manual/contribute.txt: fix typo
Signed-off-by: Raphaël Mélotte <raphael.melotte@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
2021-10-24 16:03:08 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
e1ee121cae docs/manual/using-buildroot-debugger: suggest '-ix' iso '-x' when loading gdbinit
A gdbinit file passed via '-x' will be read _after_ parsing any
object/core file passed on the command-line. In cross-compilation context,
this is particularly a problem when loading a core file, because without the
'sysroot' specified in the gdbinit file, it will give a lot of warnings,
like:

    warning: .dynamic section for "/lib/libstdc++.so.6" is not at the expected address (wrong library or version mismatch?)
    warning: .dynamic section for "/lib/librt.so.1" is not at the expected address (wrong library or version mismatch?)
    warning: .dynamic section for "/lib/libm.so.6" is not at the expected address (wrong library or version mismatch?)
    warning: .dynamic section for "/lib/libgcc_s.so.1" is not at the expected address (wrong library or version mismatch?)
    warning: .dynamic section for "/lib/libc.so.6" is not at the expected address (wrong library or version mismatch?)
    warning: .dynamic section for "/lib/ld-linux.so.2" is not at the expected address (wrong library or version mismatch?)
    warning: .dynamic section for "/lib/libanl.so.1" is not at the expected address (wrong library or version mismatch?)
    warning: .dynamic section for "/lib/libdl.so.2" is not at the expected address (wrong library or version mismatch?)
    warning: .dynamic section for "/lib/libpthread.so.0" is not at the expected address (wrong library or version mismatch?)
    warning: .dynamic section for "/usr/lib/libz.so.1" is not at the expected address (wrong library or version mismatch?)
    warning: .dynamic section for "/lib/libnss_files.so.2" is not at the expected address (wrong library or version mismatch?)

    warning: Could not load shared library symbols for 17 libraries, e.g. [...]
    Use the "info sharedlibrary" command to see the complete listing.
    Do you need "set solib-search-path" or "set sysroot"?

In contrast, the '-ix' option will load the specified gdbinit file _before_
parsing object/core files. This will remove said warnings.

See also: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28330

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2021-09-21 22:43:03 +02:00