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Currently buildroot will create a broken system for any kernel version not between 3.18 and 4.1, as the bnx2x firmware it includes is only valid for that version of the upstream driver. This change modifies the build so that all versions are included as there was a strong preference for not adding options for each version, nor only supporting the latest kernel: On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 7:09 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > I think adding new config to chose between different versions of a > given firmware is going a bit too far. If we were to do that for all > firmwares in linux-firmware, it would really increase the number of > Config.in options too much. > > Shall I suggest to install both versions of the firmware? The firmware > files are not that large, and if filesystem size is really a strong > issue, it is always possible to clean up the non-required firmware > files in a post-build script. On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 7:47 AM, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: > No, this is certainly not good, it fixes 4.2+ and simultaneously breaks 4.1-. > > What is wrong with Thomas's proposal to remove the unneeded versions in a > post-build script? If your size is so important that 640K matters, you would > probably anyway want to keep only one of the six binaries instead of three > different chip revisions. It is up to the user to ensure they remove the versions they don't want. Note that this increases the size of the root file system by about 8MB. Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> |
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Buildroot is a simple, efficient and easy-to-use tool to generate embedded Linux systems through cross-compilation. The documentation can be found in docs/manual. You can generate a text document with 'make manual-text' and read output/docs/manual/manual.text. Online documentation can be found at http://buildroot.org/docs.html To build and use the buildroot stuff, do the following: 1) run 'make menuconfig' 2) select the target architecture and the packages you wish to compile 3) run 'make' 4) wait while it compiles 5) find the kernel, bootloader, root filesystem, etc. in output/images You do not need to be root to build or run buildroot. Have fun! Buildroot comes with a basic configuration for a number of boards. Run 'make list-defconfigs' to view the list of provided configurations. Please feed suggestions, bug reports, insults, and bribes back to the buildroot mailing list: buildroot@buildroot.org You can also find us on #buildroot on Freenode IRC. If you would like to contribute patches, please read https://buildroot.org/manual.html#submitting-patches