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>
When the LZO compression mode is chosen the linux kernel requires
lzop host utility at build time.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Porcedda <fabio.porcedda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Prefer xz compressed tarball so some bandwidth is saved for kernel headers
and kernel itself downloads.
Signed-off-by: Raúl Sánchez Siles <rasasi78@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
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>
Remove the OCF linux kernel extension instead opting to build ocf-linux
modules out of tree.
This is easier for users since no kernel config tweaking is required.
On the downside the OCF drivers can't be used, but then all of the
kernel crypto drivers are available to users via cryptosoft which is
preferred.
Also remove it from the menu to utilize a virtual.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
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 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>
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>
The $(wildcard ) doesn't work for LINUX_APPEND_DTB, because the .dtb
doesn't exist yet at that point.
Also factor the common part out.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
.dtb files are now generated in arch/$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>
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>
Newer kernels had a slight change in the random number API so the OCF
patchset requires a slight tweak to build and run properly.
Affected kernels are, per series:
>=3.0.41, >=3.2.29, >=3.4.9, >=3.5.2 and any newer version.
The fix is applied by detecting the API change rather than guessing the
kernel version.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
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>
Consist with other architectures.
Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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>
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>
Add the ocf-linux package and linux kernel extension.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Drop the patch for kernel >= 3.3
Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
