[Buildroot] [pull request v2] Pull request for branch for-2011.08/bootloaders
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Jul 4 21:33:17 UTC 2011
Hello,
We have a package infrastructure that allows to share a lot of common
behaviour between packages, and allows to add new features easily to
all existing packages (Git/Mercurial download support, or usage of an
external source tree, etc.).
Unfortunately, some of the packages that would most benefit from those
new infrastructure features are the bootloader and kernel, since it's
typically the software components that have to be modified/tuned
during the course of an embedded Linux project.
Therefore, this series converts all bootloaders makefiles and the
kernel makefile to the package infrastructure, and adds the
possibility of fetching the kernel and u-boot through Git (it can be
added to other bootloaders with just a few lines of changes, mostly at
the Config.in level).
It also does various other things :
* Integrate Allan Nielsen patch that allows package to override the
default extract command. Allan wrote it for the ATI fglrx drivers,
but this is also required by this patchset for the AT91Bootstrap
bootloader, which is provided as a .zip file.
* Allow the kernel to be installed in /boot in the root
filesystem. This is mostly useful for x86 and x86_64 systems, where
it is traditional to have the kernel inside the root filesystem.
* Modify the way the kernel is configured, to always use a defconfig
mechanism. This allows to make a silent oldconfig after linux.mk
has tuned the kernel configuration according to various Buildroot
configuration options (see the commit log for details).
* Modify the package infrastructure to provide a <pkg>_INSTALL_IMAGE
knob in addition to <pkg>_INSTALL_STAGING and <pkg>_INSTALL_TARGET.
* Fix the patching procedure for host packages. It was incorrect,
because it required the target package to exist even if only the
host package was actually useful.
* Adds support for post-download hooks at the package infrastructure
level. This is needed for the kernel, as the kernel requires to
download a custom list of patches.
* Integrate Philippe Reynes patch that adds support for the x-loader
first stage bootloader (for OMAP-based platforms).
The changes have already been tested sucessfully by Luca
Ceresoli. Thanks to him for testing this patch set and for the
feedback provided, as well as the bug fixes. Many, many thanks!
Changes since the last posting (May, 30th) :
- Made the option that allows to have the kernel installed in /boot
available to all architectures, not only x86 and x86_64
- Fixed the package infrastructure modifications so that packages in
subdirectories (such as package/multimedia/) continue to work
properly.
- Add the x-loader bootloader, contributed by Philippe Reynes
- Bump Barebox version
Regards,
Thomas
The following changes since commit c80224a3a05e41af5a32e1c663fd3853f313382b:
toolchain/gcc: bump 4.6.x version to 4.6.1 (2011-06-28 15:19:13 +0200)
are available in the git repository at:
http://free-electrons.com/~thomas/buildroot.git for-2011.08/bootloaders
Allan W. Nielsen (1):
Makefile.package.in: Makes it possible to override the default extract commands
Philippe Reynes (1):
Add x-loader bootloader
Thomas Petazzoni (26):
Fix quoting in default extract command
linux: make it possible to install the kernel in /boot
linux: use the defconfig mechanism after tuning the config
package: add infrastructure to install things in images/
package: fix patching procedure for host packages
barebox: use = instead of := and re-indent
barebox: convert to GENTARGETS
at91bootstrap: use = instead of := and indent properly
at91bootstrap: convert to GENTARGETS
at91dataflashboot: use = instead of := and indent
at91dataflashboot: convert to GENTARGETS
syslinux: convert to GENTARGETS
grub: convert to AUTOTARGETS
grub2: remove package
u-boot: convert to GENTARGETS
uboot-mkimage: new package
linux: rename LINUX26 to LINUX
linux: indent and align some definitions
package: add support for post-download hooks
linux: convert to the GENTARGETS infrastructure
boot: rename BR2_TARGET_* to BR2_BOOT_*
u-boot: rename options BR2_BOOT_UBOOT* to BR2_BOOT_U_BOOT*
Improve TARGETS handling for bootloaders and kernel
linux: allow specification of a custom Git repository as a source
u-boot: allow specification of custom Git repo as source
barebox: bump version
boot/Config.in | 2 +-
boot/at91bootstrap/Config.in | 18 +-
boot/at91bootstrap/at91bootstrap.mk | 69 ++----
boot/at91dataflashboot/Config.in | 24 +--
boot/at91dataflashboot/at91dataflashboot.mk | 49 +---
boot/barebox/Config.in | 8 +-
boot/barebox/barebox.mk | 74 +++----
boot/grub/Config.in | 94 ++++----
boot/grub/grub.500-build-fix.patch | 14 ++
boot/grub/grub.mk | 157 +++++--------
boot/grub2/Config.in | 9 -
boot/grub2/grub2.mk | 93 --------
boot/syslinux/Config.in | 16 +-
boot/syslinux/syslinux.mk | 59 ++----
boot/u-boot/Config.in | 89 ++++----
boot/u-boot/u-boot.mk | 234 +++++++-------------
boot/x-loader/Config.in | 15 ++
boot/x-loader/x-loader.mk | 35 +++
linux/Config.in | 22 ++
linux/linux.mk | 210 +++++++++---------
package/Makefile.package.in | 72 +++++--
.../uboot-mkimage-2011.03-drop-configh.patch | 0
package/uboot-mkimage/uboot-mkimage.mk | 16 ++
23 files changed, 611 insertions(+), 768 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 boot/grub/grub.500-build-fix.patch
delete mode 100644 boot/grub2/Config.in
delete mode 100644 boot/grub2/grub2.mk
create mode 100644 boot/x-loader/Config.in
create mode 100644 boot/x-loader/x-loader.mk
rename boot/u-boot/u-boot-2011.03-drop-configh.patch => package/uboot-mkimage/uboot-mkimage-2011.03-drop-configh.patch (100%)
create mode 100644 package/uboot-mkimage/uboot-mkimage.mk
Thanks,
--
Thomas Petazzoni
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