Changes between Version 54 and Version 55 of buildroot

Timestamp:

04/19/2023 06:49:03 PM (19 months ago)

Author:

Tim Harvey

Comment:

update venice examples to use 6.1 kernel

buildroot

@@ -237 +237 @@
 
 [=#venice]
-== Venice (IMX8MM)
-The following details pertain to buildroot 2020.08 although newer versions will likely be similar if not the same.
-
-The Venice product family is based on the i.MX8MM SoC which has 4x Cortex-A53 CPU cores. Therefore the 'BR2_aarch64' is really the only important configuration which produces binaries executable on arm64 CPU's.
+== Venice (IMX8M)
+The following details pertain to buildroot 2023.02 although newer versions will likely be similar if not the same.
+
+The Venice product family is based on the i.MX8MM, i.MX8MN, and i.MX8MP SoCs which have 4x Cortex-A53 CPU cores. Therefore the 'BR2_aarch64' is really the only important configuration which produces binaries executable on arm64 CPU's.
 
 To build a root filesystem only:
@@ -261 +261 @@
 # arm64 arch
 BR2_aarch64=y
-# toolchain
-BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_LINUX_HEADERS_CUSTOM_5_4=y
 # kernel
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL=y
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_GIT=y
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_REPO_URL="https://github.com/Gateworks/linux-venice.git"
-BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_REPO_VERSION="v5.4.45-venice"
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_REPO_VERSION="v6.1.11-venice"
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_USE_CUSTOM_CONFIG=y
-BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_CONFIG_FILE="venice_minimal_kernel_defconfig"
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_CONFIG_FILE="venice_minimal_kernel_6.1_defconfig"
 # filesystem options
 BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_INITRAMFS=y
@@ -275 +273 @@
 EOF
 # fetch minimal kernel config for venice
-wget http://dev.gateworks.com/buildroot/venice/minimal/venice_minimal_kernel_defconfig
+wget http://dev.gateworks.com/buildroot/venice/minimal/venice_minimal_kernel_6.1_defconfig
 make venice_kernel_defconfig
 make -j8
+cp output/build/linux-v6.1.11-venice/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8m*venice*dtb output/images/ # manually copy venice DTB's to output dir
 }}}
 
@@ -288 +287 @@
 BR2_aarch64=y
 # toolchain
-BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_LINUX_HEADERS_CUSTOM_5_4=y
-BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_WCHAR=y
 BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_CXX=y
-BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_LOCALE=y
-BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_GLIBC=y
 # kernel
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL=y
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_GIT=y
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_REPO_URL="https://github.com/Gateworks/linux-venice.git"
-BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_REPO_VERSION="v5.4.45-venice"
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_REPO_VERSION="v6.1.11-venice"
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_USE_CUSTOM_CONFIG=y
-BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_CONFIG_FILE="venice_minimal_kernel_defconfig"
-# filesystem options
-BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO_XZ=y
-BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_INITRAMFS=y
-BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_TAR_XZ=y
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_CONFIG_FILE="venice_minimal_kernel_6.1_defconfig"
 # extra utils needed for basic testing and provisioning emmc
 BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_SHOW_OTHERS=y
-BR2_PACKAGE_COREUTILS=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_PV=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_STRESS=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_E2FSPROGS=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_E2FSPROGS_RESIZE2FS=y
-BR2_PACKAGE_PARTED=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_EVTEST=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_GPTFDISK=y
@@ -317 +306 @@
 BR2_PACKAGE_I2C_TOOLS=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_MEMTESTER=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_PARTED=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_PCIUTILS=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_PICOCOM=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_UBOOT_TOOLS=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_UBOOT_TOOLS_MKIMAGE=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_LIBUSB=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_TCPDUMP=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_SCREEN=y
-BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_COREUTILS=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_TAR=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX_BINARIES=y
-BR2_PACKAGE_TAR=y
-
-# extra utils needed for uboot images and env
-BR2_PACKAGE_UBOOT_TOOLS=y
-BR2_PACKAGE_UBOOT_TOOLS_MKIMAGE=y
-
+# filesystem options
+
+BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO_XZ=y
+BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_INITRAMFS=y
+BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_TAR_XZ=y
 EOF
 
 # fetch minimal kernel config
-wget http://dev.gateworks.com/buildroot/venice/minimal/venice_minimal_kernel_defconfig
+wget http://dev.gateworks.com/buildroot/venice/minimal/venice_minimal_kernel_6.1_defconfig
 make venice_example_defconfig
 make -j8
+cp output/build/linux-v6.1.11-venice/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8m*venice*dtb output/images/ # manually copy venice DTB's to output dir
 }}}
  * Note you can easily add your own files and scripts to this image by setting BR2_ROOTFS_OVERLAY to a directory or directories where your files are
@@ -352 +345 @@
  * load from network tftpserver
 {{{#!bash
-tftpboot $kernel_addr_r Image && booti $kernel_addr_r - $fdtcontroladdr
+setenv fsload tftpboot
+run loadfdt && tftpboot $kernel_addr_r Image && booti $kernel_addr_r - $fdt_addr_r
 }}}
  * load from microSD with ext/fat filesystem
 {{{#!bash
-load mmc 1:1 $kernel_addr_r Image && booti $kernel_addr_r - $fdtcontroladdr
+setenv fsload load mmc 1:1
+run loadfdt && tftpboot $kernel_addr_r Image && booti $kernel_addr_r - $fdt_addr_r
 }}}
  * load from USB with ext/fat filesystem
 {{{#!bash
-usb start; load usb 0:1 $kernel_addr_r Image && booti $kernel_addr_r - $fdtcontroladdr
+usb start
+setenv fsload load usb 0:1
+run loadfdt && tftpboot $kernel_addr_r Image && booti $kernel_addr_r - $fdt_addr_r
 }}}
 
 A prebuilt image can be found [http://dev.gateworks.com/buildroot/venice/minimal here] which contains an image built from the above venice_example_defconfig 
- - Gateworks Venice Linux 5.4.45 kernel
+ - Gateworks Venice Linux 6.1 kernel
  - glibc with wide-char, locale, and g++ support
  - screen (BR2_PACKAGE_SCREEN)