While an image layout based on MBR and 'bootfs' partition may be easy
to understand for users who are very used to the IBM PC and always have
the option to access the SD card outside of the device (and hence don't
really depend on other recovery methods or dual-boot), in my opinion
it's a dead end for many desirable features on embedded systems,
especially when managed remotely (and hence without an easy option to
access the SD card using another device in case things go wrong, for
example).
Let me explain:
* using a MSDOS/VFAT filesystem to store kernel(s) is problematic, as a
single corruption of the bootfs can render the system into a state
that it no longer boots at all. This makes dual-boot useless, or at
least very tedious to setup with then 2 independent boot partitions
to avoid the single point of failure on a "hot" block (the FAT index
of the boot partition, written every time a file is changed in
bootfs). And well: most targets even store the bootloader environment
in a file in that very same FAT filesystem, hence it cannot be used
to script a reliable dual-boot method (as loading the environment
itself will already fail if the filesystem is corrupted).
* loading the kernel uImage from bootfs and using rootfs inside an
additional partition means the bootloader can only validate the
kernel -- if rootfs is broken or corrupted, this can lead to a reboot
loop, which is often a quite costly thing to happen in terms of
hardware lifetime.
* imitating MBR-boot behavior with a FAT-formatted bootfs partition
(like IBM PC in the 80s and 90s) is just one of many choices on
embedded targets. There are much better options with modern U-Boot
(which is what we use and build from source for all targets booting
off SD cards), see examples in mediatek/mt7622 and mediatek/mt7623.
Hence rename the 'sdcard' feature to 'legacy-sdcard', and prefix
functions with 'legacy_sdcard_' instead of 'sdcard_'.
Tested-by: Stijn Tintel <stijn@linux-ipv6.be>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Add a generic sdcard upgrade method instead of duplicating code in yet
another target, and add a feature flag to only install this upgrade
method in targets that set this flag. Copied from mvebu.
Signed-off-by: Stijn Tintel <stijn@linux-ipv6.be>
The mkits.sh script help message states hash algorithm can be
specified using the -H command-line option, but it does not work
currently due to a bug in the script.
This patch fixes this problem by changing the option from -S to
-H and specify getopts parameter after it
Signed-off-by: Yonghyu Ban <yonghyu@empo.im>
To avoid abuse, these mirrors will not be used until you enable them
manually.
Signed-off-by: Tianling Shen <cnsztl@immortalwrt.org>
(cherry picked from commit a3325e5051)
If the image generation doesn't add any profiles to the output the
*profile merge* will fail. To avoid that set an empty profile as
fallback.
Signed-off-by: Paul Spooren <mail@aparcar.org>
Keep other profiles.json content if the data belongs to the current
build version.
Also useful for the ImageBuilder, which builds for a single model each
time. Without this commit the profiles.json would only contain the
latest build profile information.
Signed-off-by: Moritz Warning <moritzwarning@web.de>
[improve commit message]
Signed-off-by: Paul Spooren <mail@aparcar.org>
This separates index update from feed update. The result is that all
requested feeds are first updated and only then indexed.
The reason for this change is to prevent errors being reported and
potentially invalid index being generated thanks to cross feeds
dependency.
The feeds script pulls in default all feeds as they come and on install
prefers packages from first feeds (unless special feed is requested).
Thus order of feeds in some way specifies preferences. This is handy for
downstream distributions as they can simply override any package from
upstream feeds by placing their feed before them. This removes need to
patch or fork upstream feeds.
The problem is that such feed most likely depends in some way also on
subsequent feeds. The most likely feeds are 'packages' or 'luci'. The
example would be Python package that needs 'python.mk' from 'packages'
feed. Ordering custom feed after dependent feeds is sometimes just not
possible because of preference requirement described before.
The solution is to just first pull all feeds and generate indexes only
after that. In the end this ensures that index is generated correctly at
first try without any error.
In terms of code this removes 'perform_update' argument from
'update_feed' as with index update removal the update is the only action
performed in that subroutine. Thus this moves condition to 'update'
subroutine.
Signed-off-by: Karel Kočí <karel.koci@nic.cz>
This script hasn't seen an update in multiple years, update it to the
latest version provided upstream. Both `config.guess` and `config.sub`
are copied from upstream[1] and not modified.
The full changelog is available within the upstream repository[1].
[1]: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/config.git
Signed-off-by: Paul Spooren <mail@aparcar.org>
Before this commit, it was assumed that mkhash is in the PATH. While
this was fine for the normal build workflow, this led to some issues if
make TOPDIR="$(pwd)" -C "$pkgdir" compile
was called manually. In most of the cases, I just saw warnings like this:
make: Entering directory '/home/.../package/gluon-status-page'
bash: line 1: mkhash: command not found
bash: line 1: mkhash: command not found
bash: line 1: mkhash: command not found
bash: line 1: mkhash: command not found
bash: line 1: mkhash: command not found
bash: line 1: mkhash: command not found
bash: line 1: mkhash: command not found
bash: line 1: mkhash: command not found
[...]
While these were only warnings and the package still compiled sucessfully,
I also observed that some package even fail to build because of this.
After applying this commit, the variable $(MKHASH) is introduced. This
variable points to $(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin/mkhash, which is always the
correct path.
Signed-off-by: Leonardo Mörlein <me@irrelefant.net>
This became a bit of a tragedy, caused by a corner cases which wasn't
put into account during testing. DEFAULT_PACKAGES are defined in
target/linux/<target>/Makefile but also in
target/linux/<target>/<subtarget>/target.mk.
The latter was no longer imported when using DUMP=1, however not using
DUMP=1 while running the Makefile in target/linux/<target>/ caused duplicate
packages in the list.
As a solution, which should have been used from day 0, `make` runs in
target/linux/ without DUMP=1, resulting in no duplicate packages and all
inclusions from include/target.mk, linux/target/<target>/{Makefile,
<subtarget>/target.mk}
While at it, sort the list of default packages.
Signed-off-by: Paul Spooren <mail@aparcar.org>
The commit "1bf2b3fe90 build,json: fixup missing arch_packages" fixes
the missing package architecture locally but runs $(TOPDIR)/Makefile
rather than a target specific one. While this works on local builds just
fine, it causes the buildbots to add garbage to the `arch_packages`
variable:
cd \"/builder/shared-workdir/build\"; git log --format=%h -1
toolchain > /builder/shared-workdir/build/tmp/.ver_check\ncmp -s
/builder/shared-workdir/build/tmp/.ver_check
/builder/shared-workdir/build/staging_dir/toolchain-x86_64_gcc-8.4.0_musl/stamp/.ver_check
|| { \\\n\trm -rf
/builder/shared-workdir/build/build_dir/target-x86_64_musl
/builder/shared-workdir/build/staging_dir/target-x86_64_musl
/builder/shared-workdir/build/staging_dir/toolchain-x86_64_gcc-8.4.0_musl
/builder/shared-workdir/build/build_dir/toolchain-x86_64_gcc-8.4.0_musl;
\\\n\tmkdir -p
/builder/shared-workdir/build/staging_dir/toolchain-x86_64_gcc-8.4.0_musl/stamp;
\\\n\tmv /builder/shared-workdir/build/tmp/.ver_check
/builder/shared-workdir/build/staging_dir/toolchain-x86_64_gcc-8.4.0_musl/stamp/.ver_check;
\\\n}\nx86_64
Only the last line contains the desired string.
Future investigation should check why the build system prints this to
stdout rather than stderr.
Signed-off-by: Paul Spooren <mail@aparcar.org>
Fix 7f4c2b1 "build,json: fix duplicates in default_packages" which
removed duplicate default packages but also removed the package
architecture from the profiles.json.
If DUMP=1 is set, the `ARCH_PACKAGES` is no longer exported and
therefore empty. Fix this by running make twice, once with DUMP=1 and
once without.
Signed-off-by: Paul Spooren <mail@aparcar.org>
Calling without the DUMP=1 argument causes the target specific Makefile
to be "included" again which adds the target specific packages twice,
once on the actual run and once included from `include/target.mk`.
This led to duplicate package entries, causing confusion in downstream
projects using the generated JSON files.
While at it, apply `black` style to Python script.
Signed-off-by: Paul Spooren <mail@aparcar.org>
Add new target feature 'dt-overlay' which makes DTC keep the symbol
names in the generated dtb.
Make sure additional DT overlay sources specified by the new device
variable DEVICE_DTS_OVERLAY get compiled together with the main DTS
(currently overlays got to be in the same folder). Let Build/fit pass
the generated DT overlay blobs to mkits.sh.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Allow adding multiple device tree overlay blobs to an image and
generate configurations for each of them.
This is useful on boards with modern U-Boot which allow e.g. user-
configurable peripherals ("shields") in that way.
Note that currently, each generated configuration adds exactly one
overlay on top of the base image, ie. adding multiple overlays at the
same time is not yet supported.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
This commit cleans the `ipkg-build` script via changes suggested by
shellcheck. These are mostly word splitting issues.
Remove the definition of GZIP, this adds three "lookups" of the `gzip`
binary but the rest of the build system doesn't seem to use such
improvements neither.
Signed-off-by: Paul Spooren <mail@aparcar.org>
U-boot will reject the nodes with @ for the address since
commit:
79af75f777
This in turn will cause the failure to boot with OpenWrt
generated images.
So, to rectify that simply replace @ with -.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
(cover also newly added rootfs@1 and initrd@1 nodes)
Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robert.marko@sartura.hr>
