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Peter Korsgaard
9dc7b73f3b System config: split static-dev device table setting into seperate option
As discussed here:

http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2011-May/043251.html

Add BR2_ROOTFS_STATIC_DEVICE_TABLE for the extra device table file(s)
to create device nodes in /dev, rather than complicated logic in
BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_TABLE, making it complicated to move between static
and dynamic modes.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-07-25 00:09:33 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
4e005c47e5 Allow several device tables and split in two parts our device table
This allows to have a device table for all directories/files and
another device table for the device files themselves. Both are needed
for static /dev, but only the first one is needed when
devtmpfs/mdev/udev are used.

We take this opportunity to move the documentation of the device table
format in a common location, package/makedevs/README.

[Peter: simplify code slightly, fix indentation]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-05-09 16:52:22 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
094b293803 fs: add extra deps to ROOTFS_*_DEPENDENCIES variables
Instead of explicitly adding it both places it is used.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-11-19 15:05:20 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
0a0cb991b7 fs: rename make targets to match package/ convention
Use rootfs-* rather than *-root, to match the convention used under
package/ and which fits with the ROOTFS_*_ variables.

This will also help with the host dependencies.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-11-19 15:04:49 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
f507921d39 linux: add support for initramfs
In Buildroot, the kernel is built and installed *before* the root
filesystems are built. This allows the root filesystem to correctly
contain the kernel modules that have been installed.

However, in the initramfs case, the root filesystem is part of the
kernel. Therefore, the kernel should be built *after* the root
filesystem (which, in the initramfs case simply builds a text file
listing all files/directories/devices/symlinks that should be part of
the initramfs). However, this isn't possible as the initramfs text
file would lack all kernel modules.

So, the solution choosen here is to keep the normal order: kernel is
built before the root filesystem is generated, and to add a little
quirk to retrigger a kernel compilation after the root filesystem
generation.

To do so, we add a ROOTFS_$(FSTYPE)_POST_TARGETS variable to the
fs/common.mk infrastructure. This allows individual filesystems to set
a target name that we should depend on *after* generating the root
filesystem itself (contrary to normal ROOTFS_$(FSTYPE)_DEPENDENCIES,
on which we depend *before* generating the root filesystem).

The initramfs code in fs/initramfs/initramfs.mk uses this to add a
dependency on 'linux26-rebuild-with-initramfs'.

In linux/linux.mk, we do various things :

 * If BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_INITRAMFS is enabled (i.e if initramfs is
   enabled as a root filesystem type), then we create an empty
   rootfs.initramfs file (remember that at this point, the root
   filesystem hasn't been generated) and we adjust the kernel
   configuration to include an initramfs. Of course, in the initial
   kernel build, this initramfs will be empty.

 * In the linux26-rebuild-with-initramfs target, we retrigger a
   compilation of the kernel image, after removing the initramfs in
   the kernel sources to make sure it gets properly rebuilt (we've
   experienced cases were modifying the rootfs.initramfs file wouldn't
   retrigger the generation of the initramfs at the kernel level).

This is fairly quirky, but initramfs really is a special case, so in
one way or another, we need a little quirk to solve its specialness.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2010-06-22 21:20:28 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
949db6ac05 Add a <fs>-root-show-depends target
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2010-05-21 15:07:34 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
81cd9d45ff makedevs: convert to a more normal way of building packages
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2010-04-19 22:46:39 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
64ec20e6c0 fs: change the way the device table is configured
Until now, the location of the device table was specified by a
variable in board Makefiles. Unfortunately, this variable is not
accessible from fs/common.mk, since the target/ code is included
*after* fs/common.mk.

Anyway, the general idea is to move away from these boards Makefile,
and provide configuration option for things like the device table
location.

Therefore, this patch adds a BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_TABLE option which
allows to specify which device table should be used.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2010-04-17 04:36:23 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
0585241505 Move all filesystem generation code to fs/
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2010-04-09 11:04:36 +02:00