8 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
ca231b82f6 get rid of lkmc package, move userland and kernel-modules to top
Rationale: we already had a non buildroot build system,
maintaining both will be hard, and having short paths is more awesome.
2018-10-25 00:00:02 +00:00
98bada1e7c getting started: explain 9p module rebuild
split networking and filesystem toplevel secions

create closest overlayfs attempt so far and document it
2018-10-14 00:00:00 +00:00
dae60aa248 modules: rename packages/kernel_modules to packages/lkmc
Then inside, split packages/lkmc into kernel_modules and userland,
to keep userland out of the kernel_modules parent path, which makes no
sense.

Copy built modules and userland to the output rootfs overlay.

Document Linux distro tradeoffs.
2018-10-12 09:30:33 +01:00
76b486c274 Build userland examples separately 2018-10-12 09:30:33 +01:00
bc73cebff1 Build the Linux kernel independently from Buildroot
This will allow for other types of root filesystems that don't rely on Buildroot
to be added and used in the future.

Propagate --verbose on all build scripts to see full GCC commands.

build-all: allow for neat subsets

also 9p share rootfs_overlay. TODO document.
2018-10-12 09:30:33 +01:00
74b51fc044 gem5: update to 7bfb7f3a43f382eb49853f47b140bfd6caad0fb8
The update is required to include 3c3ca64b5f0dd9eef7b1ce1c65cc6e8e9147dd38
otherwise baremetal does not on VExpress.

baremetal: create a baremetal setup with crosstool-ng

buildroot: improve directory location: move out/dl inside
out/buildroot/download, and add a new out/buildroot/build level

tagline: generalize, deliver more value than howto, since now howtos
are starting to multiply

rename all top scripts to separate words with hyphen more consistently,
e.g. run-gdb instead of rungdb

getvar: list all variables

gem5: make m5out section to focus all releated information at

Prevent m5term Text file busy when rebuilding gem5 while it is running.
2018-09-23 13:56:20 +01:00
56738a1c70 lkmc v2-rc
Unsquashed version at v2-rc-unsquashed, but that cannot be merged as it
breaks bisects at several points. All bugs will not bisect to this
humongous change.

It all started with a conversion of the Bash scripts to Python, mainly
because I couldn't stand not being able to properly use --options for
run which has a million options.

Then since that required a full testing, I decided to do all the
refactorings that I had in mind at once, and so I did and it became
v2-rc.

This is the largest patch I have ever done! OMG a few weeks of extra time.
I'm never writing a Bash script for anything that starts getting big again.

Some of the features are:

* separate build-qemu and build-gem5 commands
* common: convert scripts to python. Add --option for everything
* rename build to build-buildroot now that we are splitting all the build
  commands, Linux kernel to follow
* move all git submodules to submodules/ and all buildroot packages to
  packages/
* refactor the out/ structure. Keep projects on toplevel, because guest
  projects separate archs and host ones don't, making a toplevel arch wrong
* do-release: rename to just release
  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16174992/cant-get-argparse-to-read-quoted-string-with-dashes-in-it
* run: add --terminal and explain gem5 pdb
* just track the lvimrc
* store CLI kernel config fragment inside buildlroot to avoid conflicts
* gem5: document m5 initparam
* readme: make a bunch of things awesomer
* readme: fix broken refs
* parsec-benchmark: update to 75d55ac446a43c47efb1044844a108c6c330184c
  Could not fetch otherwise.
* gem5: M5_OVERRIDE_PY_SOURCE
2018-09-14 07:42:31 +01:00
57dbe81f33 lkmc_many_files: create package to test a rootfs with many files
Automatically pick up packages from under packages/ into BR2_EXTERNAL.

Move many subdirectory READMEs into the toplevel and link to toplevel from those subreadmes instead.
2018-06-17 11:36:56 +01:00