After several months of testing and fixing (and breaking)
various parts of release/release.sh changes, it is now
possible to build FreeBSD/arm images as part of the release
process.
When EMBEDDEDBUILD is set in the release.conf file, release.sh
will create the build environment, then run a separate script
in release/${XDEV}/release.sh [1]. Currently, only arm is
supported.
The release/${XDEV}/release.sh configures the build environment
specific for the target image, such as installing gcc(1),
installing additional third-party software from the ports tree,
and fetching external sources.
Once the build environment is set up, release/${XDEV}/release.sh
runs Crochet, written by Tim Kientzle, which builds the userland
and kernel, and creates an image that can be written to an SD
card with dd(1). Many thanks to Tim for his work on Crochet.
Sample configurations for FreeBSD/arm boards are in the
release/arm/ directory, and Crochet configuration files for each
board are located in release/tools/arm/. Supported boards at this
time are: BEAGLEBONE, PANDABOARD, RPI-B, and WANDBOARD-QUAD.
Adding support for additional boards will continue in the
projects/release-embedded/ branch, and incrementally merged back
to head/.
Many thanks to the FreeBSD Foundation for the support and
sponsorship of this project.
[1] XDEV is used in order to keep the various configurations
organized by architecture, but since TARGET and TARGET_ARCH
are used to build the chroot, the values of those variables
cannot be used.
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
- Add a VCSCMD variable that defaults to 'svn checkout',
and update places 'svn co' is used directly.
- After sourcing a configuration file, prefix SRCBRANCH,
PORTBRANCH, and DOCBRANCH with the SVNROOT.
- Properly capitalize 'FreeBSD.org' in the default SVNROOT.
- Update Copyright.
release.conf.sample:
- Add an example to use git instead of svn, by nullifying
SVNROOT, and setting SRCBRANCH, DOCBRANCH, and PORTBRANCH
to the URL fo a git repository.
release.7:
- Document VCSCMD.
Submitted by: Rick Miller (based on)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
set up for the amd64/amd64 TARGET/TARGET_ARCH combination.
Some of the build tools used here (u-boot in particular) require
use of gcc(1). The lang/gcc* from ports/ will install as 'gccNN'
instead of 'gcc', so they cannot be used without extra hacks.
Add an EMBEDDED_WORLD_FLAGS variable to be used to properly set
up the build chroot. For the RPI-B case, EMBEDDED_WORLD_FLAGS
is set to 'WITH_GCC=1', which is used to set up the build chroot.
While here, in followup to r260895, do not rely on the necessary
configuration files and/or scripts to exist in the build target
src/ tree.
To work around cases where files do not exist, copy (from the
local release/ checkout) the tools/${XDEV}/crochet-${KERNEL}.conf
to ${CHROOTDIR}/tmp/external/crochet-${KERNEL}.conf to make them
accessible to the external utilities that need them (i.e., crochet).
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
allow the toolchain to detect the correct values.
- Remove {SRC,DOC,PORT}REVISION variables, and use 'branch@rNNNNNN'
as the {SRC,DOC,PORT}BRANCH variables.
- Only set default KERNEL_FLAGS and WORLD_FLAGS make(1) jobs if the
number of CPUs is greater than 1.
Submitted by: hrs
the src/ tree into a directory that contains files/directories, such
as a case where a custom kernel configuration file is specified.
- Allow specification of multiple KERNCONFs to pass to 'make release'.
- Move evaluation of NODOCS/NOPORTS earlier, and set based on how the
release process expects these options to be evaluated.
- Wrap KERNCONF specification in double quotes, and use 'eval' so multiple
kernel configurations do not cause the build to fail in strange ways.
- Set WITHOUT_X11 for the port build flags for the documentation toolchain
build. Also run 'clean distclean' targets during port build.
PR: 180192
Submitted by: Anes Mukhametov
MFC after: 3 days
Approved by: kib (mentor, implicit)
the release/generate-release.sh script by nwhitehorn.
This script can use optional configuration file to override defaults,
making running multiple serialzied builds with different specific
configurations or architecture-specific tunings quite easy.
Sample overrideable options are included in the release.conf.sample
file.
Approved by: kib (mentor)
MFC After: 2 weeks
X-MFC-To: stable/9 only
