shmalebx9 authored 3 years ago and Leah Rowe committed 3 years ago

this is cherry-picked from osbmk. the cherry-pick was
performed by i, leah rowe. this is adapted from shmalebx's
patch there, in osboot

specifically, these patches from osbmk are being imported:

327a39ef058d5385bf8c1a1b09bac8db6a51b016

5139ad4be4df1835ce154f39161eef4f7c31ee1a

with this change, it's unlikely we'll hit errors again. previously,
some projects used were calling "python" which in context was
python3, but on some setups, the user only has python2 and python3
but no symlink for "python" (which if exists, we assumed linked to
python3)

now it's unambiguous. docs/build/ can probably be updated now, as
a result of this change, to remove the advice about that

I was running into a race condition when rebuilding seabios with a high cpu count,
resulting in failure with this error message:

cc1: fatal error: can't open 'out/src/asm-offsets.s' for writing: No such file or directory

Performing the silentoldconfig step before the full make step seems to resolve the failure.

When running ./download all, we have the following error:
    resources/scripts/download/coreboot: Line 52: $1 is not set.

The ./download all command was broken by the following commit:
2bb805e2

 (download: Add --help in the
individual download scripts).

Reported-by: madbehaviorus[m] on #libreboot on liberachat
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>

git worktrees have plaintext .git files which contain the gitdir in their content.

Without that fix we have the following warning during the download:
    Cloning into 'u-boot/u-boot'...
    warning: redirecting to https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot.git/



Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>

This should enable various distributions and build system to reuse
the generated script to deblob u-boot releases themselves.

Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>

This should enable various distributions and build system to reuse
that blob to deblob u-boot releases themselves.

Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>

Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>

The tar options come from the tutorial to remove archives metadata at
reproducible-builds.org[1].

[1]https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/archives/



Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>

This doesn't change the existing usage of the scripts:
- For the Coreboot script, before this change, all arguments that were
  passed were considered as board to download the Coreboot source code
  for.

  Here we added the '--help' and '--list-boards' arguments, so it
  should not be an issue as it is extremely unlikely that a board
  would be called '--help' or '--list-boards'.

- All the other scripts don't use any arguments so passing --help
  should not conflict with the existing usage.

Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>

Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>

If the script is named u-boot-stable-src-release and that users see an
u-boot-libre tarball they will not make the link between both unless
we rename the script.

Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>

Many people using FSDG compliant distributions or wanting to use one
are already familiar with linux-libre. This change renames the
resulting tarball to u-boot-libre to make it easier for people to
understand the goal of this tarball.

In addition we also rename the version from v2021.07 (which is the git
tag corresponding to the release) to 2021.07 as u-boot upstream
tarballs use that.

The revision wasn't bumped as we didn't have any releases of
u-boot-libre yet.

Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>

Once the tarball are released, it will enable distributions to use
these tarballs to produce deblobbed u-boot packages.

Note that the produced tarball is not reproducible yet. Because of
that it has to be trusted.

During a release, it's a good idea to sign the uncompressed tarball as
the various compression formats and associated tools make different
tradeoffs.

For instance with xz, xz -9e tends to compress really well with the
the most used xz[1] implementation, and most GNU/Linux users probably
already have it installed, but and the drawbacks is that the format is
very fragile[2].

The lzip format is more suited for long term archiving but its most
packaged implementation[3] is less likely to be already installed by
users than more well known formats like xz, bzip2 or gzip.

Being able to add more compression formats after the release is also
useful, for instance to accommodate different build systems or use
cases (like being able to build u-boot with less dependencies in
distributions like Guix, or building u-boot directly on devices which
don't have enough RAM for xz for instance).

[1]https://tukaani.org/xz/
[2]https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html
[3]https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/



Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>

build_error is supposed to be a file since it's created with touch.

Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>

on ga-g41m-es2l, set it to ata

logic for setting it in grub.cfg will be done in the next commit

it's confusing, broken and most people nowadays don't use optical drives

it's not even possible in most setups anyway

hardcode everything. in practise, the new logic will work just the same in
almost all cases, for most people, but it works around performance issues in
grub. cleanup of grub.cfg will be done in the next commit

GRUB is slow at device enumeration. This patch works around it in the same way
as vitali64's recent patch.

Vitali64 authored 3 years ago and Leah Rowe committed 3 years ago

On many boards, grub takes a very long time to
search for a grub.cfg file on the disk.
The problem is the search_grub function which
takes a long time to complete.
I (vitali64) studied the grub.cfg from 2016 and
the grub.cfg from 2021 and optimized the
grub.cfg. It should be faster now.