Since quite some time, the kernel and bootloader communities consider
zImage as the default format for kernel images on ARM, replacing
uImage. The load address information in uImage is no longer needed,
since the kernel is position-independent in terms of physical address,
except on a few old platforms. For most people, using zImage is simply
better/simpler, so let's switch to zImage as the default image format
on ARM.
All defconfigs are updated: 46 defconfigs no longer need to select
explicitly zImage because it's the default, and 16 defconfigs now need
to explicitly select uImage because that's no longer the default.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Matt Weber <matt@thewebers.ws>
Acked-by: Julien Boibessot <julien.boibessot@armadeus.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
For most defconfigs, it was trivial to deduce the kernel version, by
just reading the version string, which could be:
- a standard upstream version string vX.Y.Z
- a non-standard version string, but still containg the standard X.Y.Z
Those for which it was not so trivial were those hosted on git tree.
Since most were already using a custom linux-headers version, it could
be easily deduced from that. It was confirmed by browsing said git trees
and check the version there.
There are a few cases were there was a mismatch:
- microzed: uses a 3.18 kernel, but 3.8 headers; fixed.
- xilinx_zc706: uses a 3.14 kernel, but 3.8 headers; fixed.
- zedboard: uses a 3.18 kernel, but 3.8 headers; fixed.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Cc: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The Barebox, AT91Bootstrap and Linux patches for the Calao QIL A9260
board are all located in the same directory, board/calao/qil-a9260/,
with only a prefix to indicate to which component they apply.
Unfortunately, since commit 0eba4759fa
("packages: apply custom patches using *.patch instead of
<pkg>-*.patch"), the logic to apply custom patches in Barebox and
AT91Bootstrap has been changed from applying <package>-*.patch to
applying *.patch (in order to be consistent with what we do for all
packages in Buildroot).
However, this had the effect of trying to apply both the AT91Bootstrap
and Barebox patches on both packages, which obviously cannot work.
This commit fixes that by moving patches around, and switching to use
BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR for all of Barebox, AT91Bootstrap and Linux
patches.
In addition, the defconfig was not specifying explicitly which Barebox
version to use, so right now it's trying to use Barebox 2015.09, on
which the board-specific patch does not apply. So we've forced to use
Barebox 2012.08, which was the lastest release available at the time
the defconfig was initially contributed.
Cc: Gregory Hermant <gregory.hermant@calao-systems.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The calao_qil_a9260 was not specifying an explicit kernel version, so
it ended up downloading the latest kernel version, and therefore fail
to apply the patches. This commit changes the defconfig to used a
fixed kernel version, so that the patches apply properly. It fixes a
Jenkins build failure that has been occuring since quite some time.
While we're at it, also lock down the version of the kernel headers,
as noticed by Peter Korsgaard.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
