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.
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
Otherwise, checking out branches is too insane, as it does not
update the worktrees, even though the gem5/gem5 module was updated.
gem5: expose build types, document debug builds.
simultaneous runs: store stdout and stderr on a file to allow running
all from a single terminal on the background cleanly.
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.
We have wanted to do this since forever, but the last straw was gem5 aarch64,
which runs too fast, and makes it very hard to write "root" withing 60 seconds!
Another possibility to solve that would have been to find an answer for:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/340333/how-can-i-get-bin-login-to-not-timeout
which we didn't, but not typing root at all is even better.
Take this opportunity to document how to login into user0.
sshd: automate and document further
gdbserver: automatically startup internet on /gdbserver.sh
In order to make the system easier to understand.
These include:
* networking
* klogd and syslogd. TODO what are those for? I could not see anything useful that they do.
Also get rid of the useless S20random thing while we are at it.
This is necessary because qemu and gem5 now use the same build folder.
Separate ./run -e and -f for kernel options before and after the ' - '.
This was already the better thing to do when -E was introduced,
but lkmc_nonet prompted me to do it nicer now.
Use the common script to find the out_dir on every toplevel script.
Include usage man pages on README.
Semi automated conversion, in part because Pandoc is kind of buggy for adoc:
Some of the commands were along the lines:
for f in *.md; do pandoc --atx-headers --base-header-level=3 -o ${f%.md}.adoc --wrap=none $f; done
sed -Ei '/\[\[.*\]\]/d' *.adoc
while read -r f; do cat $f; echo; done <f >g