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>
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>
There already is a default kernel version, so it makes little sense to have
a default custom kernel version as well. This default breaks the 'make
savedefconfig' if we want to force a specific version.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
The 'vmlinux' target in the linux build directory is a generic target. It may
not be directly bootable for all architectures, but for projects where a custom
bootloader is used, it can be of value.
Previously, this target was only available for mips architectures. This patch
removes this restriction.
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>
Signed-off-by: Kelvin Cheung <keguang.zhang@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
The vmlinux kernel target is valid for powerpc kernels too.
In fact this broke the qemu sample config.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Bump default kernel vesion to 3.1 to match headers.
Also implement downloads for 3.x series kernels.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Add a kernel sub-menu (called "Linux Kernel Extensions"), which makes
possible to patch it or tweak the kernel build step.
* All linux/linux-ext-*.mk files will be read by the make process.
* The menu can be customized in "linux/Config.ext.in".
[Peter: small fixes]
Signed-off-by: Benoit Mauduit <benoit.mauduit@openwide.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
[Peter: always copy to output/images as requested by Luca]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
This is useful for ARCHes like PowerPC that have a whole lot of
special targets for each different board. The kernel image target
tells make which OpenFirmware machine description file is combined into
the kernel binary.
[Peter: fix long lines]
Signed-Off-By: Martin Hicks <mort@bork.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
[Peter: don't allow MMU on bfin]
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
The ELF vmlinux image found at the root of the kernel source tree is
the format that Qemu needs when emulating mips(el) or ppc targets, so
add support for it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
The kernel being a component that often needs a fairly important set
of changes to be adapted to a particular hardware platform, having
maximum flexibility on the patching process is a nice
thing. Therefore, as per the discussions from the Buildroot Developer
Day, we add a mechanism to apply a list of patches (that could come
either from URLs, local files or local directories).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Some Linux kernel output image formats are available on some archs,
some not. For example 'uImage' is not supported on MIPS, so let's
prevent the user from making this selection.
Issue initially reported by Choi, David <David.Choi@Micrel.Com>.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch introduces a single, simple, infrastructure to build the
Linux kernel. The configuration is limited to :
* Kernel version: a fixed recent stable version, same as kernel
headers version (for internal toolchains only), custom stable
version, or custom tarball URL
* Kernel patch: either a local file, directory or an URL
* Kernel configuration: either the name of a defconfig or the
location of a custom configuration file
* Kernel image: either uImage, bzImage, zImage or vmlinux.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
