kernel is named /boot/vmlinuz now, looking at the filename will no
longer tell us what flavor it is. This now will look at
/usr/share/kernel, which has always contained the kernel 'flavor', and
since we currently only install 1 kernel these days, guarding this with
pmaports.cfg should be unnecessary. In the worst case (if there are
multiple kernel 'flavors' installed), it'll just grab the first one and
return it.
Some Mediatek devices have a special 512-byte header around the zImage
which must be generated so the device boots.
Support for that exists for a while in postmarketOS but detection was
missing. Add that.
While at it, also remove unnecessary "#!/usr/bin/env python3" in files
that only get imported, and adjust other empty/comment lines in the
beginnings of the files for consistency.
This makes files easier to read, and makes the pmbootstrap codebase more
consistent with the build.postmarketos.org codebase.
* change "pmbootstrap kconfig_check" to "pmbootstrap kconfig check"
* change "pmbootstrap menuconfig" to "pmbootstrap kconfig edit [-x|-g]"
(with legacy alias, because the first syntax was referenced to a lot)
* enable X11 interfaces: -x: xconfig, -g: gconfig
* new function to copy the xauthority file:
pmb.chroot.other.copy_xauthority()
* remove menufconfig() function from the kernel template and all kernel
aports ([skip ci] because it would rebuild all kernels and run out of
time). Alpine has dropped this as well, and it wouldn't work with the
new code anyway.
* As discussed in IRC/matrix, we're removing `linux-postmarketos-lts`
for now. The kernel isn't used right now, and we save lots of
maintenance effort with not updating it every week or so.
* new config option `"kernel"` with possible values:
`"downstream", "mainline", "stable"` (downstream is always
`linux-$devicename`)
* ask for the kernel during `pmbootstrap init` if the device package
has kernel subpackages and install it in `_install.py`
* postmarketos-mkinitfs: display note instead of exit with error when
the `deviceinfo_dtb` file is missing (because we expect it to be
missing for downstream kernels)
* device-sony-amami:
* add kernel subpackages for downstream, mainline
* set `deviceinfo_dtb`
* device-qemu-amd64: add kernel subpackages for stable, lts, mainline
* test cases and test data for new functions
* test case that checks all aports for right usage of the feature:
* don't mix specifying kernels in depends *and* subpackages
* 1 kernel in depends is maximum
* kernel subpackages must have a valid name
* Test if devices packages reference at least one kernel
* Remove `_build_device_depends_note()` which informs the user that
`--ignore-depends` can be used with device packages to avoid building
the kernel. The idea was to make the transition easier after a change
we did months ago, and now the kernel doesn't always get built before
building the device package so it's not relevant anymore.
* pmb/chroot/other.py:
* Add autoinstall=True to kernel_flavors_installed(). When the flag
is set, the function makes sure that at least one kernel for the
device is installed.
* Remove kernel_flavor_autodetect() function, wherever it was used,
it has been replaced with kernel_flavors_installed()[0].
* pmb.helpers.frontend.py: remove code to install at least one kernel,
kernel_flavors_installed() takes care of that now.
The creates the linux-postmarketos package which for now supports the n900 (and probably the other maemo devices) and qemu with the vexpress-a9 machine simulation.
I've put the generated dtbs in /usr/share/dtb for now and set the dtb field in the deviceinfo for the n900 and my new qemu device.
* Introduced linux-postmarketos-omap
* Unified kernel progress
* Created kernel bootable with qemu
* Updated n900 deviceinfo for generic kernel
* Changed qemu device to vexpress
* Updated APK comments and added linux-postmarketos-dev package
* Append dtb in mkinitfs
* Fixed bootscript on n900 for the generic kernel
* Don't detect double flavors with -dtb appending
* Added graphics drivers for vexpress (qemu)
* Added more drivers for qemu
This adds virtio network support in qemu for the vexpress-a9 machine.
The keyboard and mouse don't work yet.
You can boot into weston if --no-fde is specified
* pmb/challenge/apk.py had to be renamed to pmb/challenge/apk_file.py,
so the "internal" functions of that file could be accessed, while
still providing the short notation pmb.challenge.apk().
* zap asks for each buildroot_* chroot, if you want to remove it, not
only for the one with the device arch
* add new pmb.chroot.tempfolder() function, that creates a temporary
folder, that belongs to "user" and deletes it, if it already exists.
this function gets used in a few challenge testcases.
* allows to build/extract/list initramfs, add/del hook
* rebuild the initfs whenever running install or trying to flash/boot it
* flasher flash/boot: automatically set up a minimal rootfs with kernel and initfs,
if it does not exist yet
Oliver Smith
Newbyte
Clayton Craft
Luca Weiss
Oliver Smith
steamport
Martijn Braam