now it no longer hardcodes a check for whether the
project name is coreboot. this maintains the same
behaviour but will now work for other multi-tree
projects; in practise, the other multi-tree projects
did not use .gitmodules files anyway, but some of
them used config/submodules/ in our build system.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
it's also used from script/roms, in addition to trees
move these variables to a common file used everywhere
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
certain code checks for build.list, to skip it, for
example in items()
we already use config/data/grub to store grub config data
that applied to all trees
create these directories too:
config/data/coreboot
config/data/u-boot
config/data/seabios
move the respective build.list files in here, and also
to config/data/grub
now multi-tree projects contain, per directory, just the
target.cfg file and the patches directory. this is much
cleaner, because some of the logic can be simplified more
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
instead, check for the presence of target.cfg files
not in config/project/ but config/project/tree/
the way this check is done, it merely returns 1 if
config/project/*/target.cfg is detected, and returns
0 in all other cases, even if config/project/target.cfg
exists
that way, if the maintainer accidentally adds a
target.cfg in the main directory, the given multi-tree
project will not break
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
this avoids writing the version/versiondate files as root.
this complements the previous fix, that avoided writing those
same files when running the dependencies command.
initial setup of the build system requires root, to run the
dependencies script, but otherwise the build system prevents
running as root for everything else, so we must avoid writing
the version/versiondate files as root.
that same avoidance is necessary when checking whether running
other commands as root; ironically, this check then prevented
running the build system at all!
the bug should be fully fixed now. i found this quite by accident
the other day, when testing something else.
good thing this got fixed because the release!
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
do it strategically, in just the right place so that the
version and versiondate files aren't written.
otherwise, version/versiondate are written as root and
the build system becomes unusable after that, unless you
reset the file ownerships from root. hardly user-friendly.
mitigate this bug.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
already of saying "found", say "already exists"
this means the output of these commands more user
friendly and intuitive:
./update trees -b grub default
./update trees -b coreboot i945
this is just an example. when an ELF file already
exists, the build is skipped even if src isn't downloaded.
this design is intentional, because it means that you can
use previous builds if you want to save time on another.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
adding help again is a bad idea. code should never
document itself; that's what documentation is for.
so, make the code do a better job telling the user
where to find documentation.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
The xHCI patches were removed because they caused issues
on Sandybridge-based Dell Latitude laptops. See:
https://codeberg.org/libreboot/lbmk/issues/216
The issue was not reported elsewhere, but we still don't
need xHCI support in Canoeboot's GRUB because none of the
available coreboot targets have xHCI support. However, we
may want it in the future and it helps to keep Canoeboot
in sync with Libreboot (this patch is adapted from lbmk).
Each given coreboot target can say which GRUB tree to use
by setting this in target.cfg:
grubtree="xhci"
In the above example, the "xhci" tree would be used. Some
generic GRUB config has been moved to config/data/grub/
and config/grub/ now looks like config/coreboot/ - also,
the grub.cfg file (named "payload" in each tree) is copied
to the GRUB source tree as ".config", then added to GRUB's
memdisk in the same way, as grub.cfg.
Several other design changes had to be made because of this:
* grub.cfg in memdisk no longer automatically jumps to one
in CBFS, but now shows a menuentry for it if available
* Certain commands in script/trees are disabled for GRUB,
such as *config make commands.
* gnulib is now defined in config/submodule/grub/, instead
of config/git/grub - and this mitigates an existing bug
where downloading gnulib first would make grub no longer
possible to download in lbmk.
There is another reason for merging this design change from
lbmk, and that reasoning also applies to lbmk. Specifically:
This change will enable per-board GRUB optimisation in the
future. For example, we hardcode what partitions and LVMs
GRUB scans because * is slow on ICH7-based machines, due
to GRUB's design. On other machines, * is reasonably fast,
for automatically enumerating the list of devices for boot.
Use of * (and other wildcards) could enable our GRUB payload
to automatically boot more distros, with minimal fuss. This
can be done at a later date, in subsequent revisions.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
the reason for it is because sometimes the coreboot build
system auto-downloads submodules which we don't want.
however, we now pass UPDATED_SUBMODULES=1 in make, which
disables this behaviour in coreboot's build system.
therefore, remove this unnecessary logic.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
i'm merging it into lbmk after this commit. in lbmk, it
will be used for deleting certain files such as u-boot's
strlcat.c. it will not be used in libreboot for deblobbing;
that's what canoeboot is for (deblobbed coreboot distro).
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <info@minifree.org>
as stated in the previous commit, i'm adding this function
to lbmk because there are files i want to systematically
delete in libreboot releases, not just canoeboot releases,
but libreboot releases delete things such as unlicensed
readme files, or poorly licensed other files.
i initially moved the nuke function to its own file so as
to reduce the number of merge conflicts when merging
changes to git.sh between cbmk and lbmk, but if they're
going to both contain this file, then it makes sense
to have this in git.sh once again.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <info@minifree.org>
blobs.list is now nuke.list
this is because i'm going to import this functionality
into lbmk (libreboot build system).
libreboot will not do full deblobbing like canoeboot does,
but there are still certain files that i like to delete
in releases, such as u-boot's strlcat.c file under tests
calling it "nukeblobs" in libreboot makes no sense, but
i like to avoid merge conflicts when cherry-picking
patches between cbmk and lbmk, so i like to make sure
that functions and variables common to both are named
the name.
simply calling it "nuke" or calling the files "nuke.list"
is probably inoffensive while conveying the same meaning.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <info@minifree.org>
i was checking whether it's a directory, whereas i should
have been checking whether it's a file. this is a workaround
put in place in case someone downloaded a tarball from codeberg
which is pre-generated per commit. in this situation, the
version and versiondate files do not exist, but the design
of the build system requires that they do exist.
the existing check is correct except for this bug, so fix
the bug. check that they are files, not directories
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
in each submodule configuration directory, a module.cfg
file can now be provided. in it, the user can specify
two repository links (main and backup) and a revision, like
so:
subrepo="repo link goes here"
subrepo_bkup="backup repo link goes here"
subrev="git revision id goes here"
additionally:
in the *main* project directory for the submodules,
a module.list file can be provided. example entries:
3rdparty/vboot
3rdparty/libgfxinit
if the module.list file is provided, only those submodules
will be downloaded. this can be combined with the module.cfg
files, if you wish, but it's optional. you can mix and match.
example locations:
multi-tree project:
config/submodule/coreboot/default/module.list
config/submodule/coreboot/default/vboot/module.cfg
single-tree project:
config/submodule/flashprog/module.list
config/submodule/flashprog/foo/module.cfg
*no* configuration files have been provided, in this commit,
which means that the current behaviour is maintained.
follow-up commits will absolutely configure the submodules.
this is being done to reduce the number of modules downloaded,
because we don't use most of the coreboot submodules that are
downloaded, thus wasting bandwidth and the releases are also
much bigger than necessary.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
a user was getting error "version unset" when using the
tarball generated from codeberg. it's recommended to use
the git repository properly, or a release archive.
mitigate this so that the build succeeds anyway.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
i'm importing some changes from lbmk and they go at the
end of git.sh, in the diffs. moving the deblob function
to its own file will allow me to cherry-pick with fewer
merge conflicts.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <info@minifree.org>
this is an oversight in the last few commits.
canoeboot must not use --checkout, because doing so
would download blob repositories from coreboot.org
by only including "--init" in the submodule command,
coreboot's build system skips almost all blobs.
(and then canoeboot deletes any remaining stragglers)
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <info@minifree.org>
again, the directory in question is simply used
in a for loop using asterisk (git_am_patches) and
the for loop simply won't iterate if either the
directory doesn't exist or it contains no items.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
in the function that immediately follows, it
starts two for loops that check every item in
that directory, using the asterisk wildcard.
if the directory does not exist, then the for
loop will simply break on first pass.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
"./update project trees" is a leftover from the
old build system design, prior to audits.
this particular call is for when xtree is defined,
which means that a given tree must rely on the given
coreboot tree defined by xtree. the "xtree" tree is
downloaded, so that its crossgcc builds can be re-used
to save time when building targets across many trees.
this is because trees often use identical crossgcc builds.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
for single-tree project (e.g. flashprog):
config/submodule/PROJECT/MODNAME/patches
for multi-tree project (e.g. coreboot):
config/submodule/PROJECT/TREE/MODNAME/patches
MODNAME is e.g.:
3rdparty/vboot directory in coreboot: would become vboot
(the submodule codepath is filtered to up to the final slash)
another example:
submodire src dir 3rdparty/foo/bar
MODNAME would be "bar"
Add whatever patches you like to a given submodule.
An example patch is included in this commit.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
the function is very small and only called once,
from fetch_project_trees()
merge it into fetch_project_trees()
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
one of the calling functions relies on the return value
to be always 0, so these error conditions in mkrom_tarball
have been altered to cause an *exit* (non-zero) instead.
in practise, the commands in question were printf commands
run after tho directory they output to had been created,
so write access would probably not be an issue.
nonetheless, technically correct is the best kind of correct.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
The build system already deletes .git in all source
directories for each given release, but does so at
the very end; it still does, but now it is deleted
one by one per project, to save space during very
large builds (release sizes vary wildly, depending
on how many trees exist for coreboot basically).
If you're building entirely in tmpfs (as I do), this
could be a problem if you have lots of .git/ directories.
This change reduces disk usage, or in the above example,
memory usage when running the build system from tmpfs.
This complements another recent change, where ROM images
are compressed per target during release builds, rather
than all at the very end of the process. It is part of a
series of optimisations, to reduce the memory and disk
usage of the build system, and to reduce I/O wastage
in general.
This change will not be the last of such changes!
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
an equivalent change has been made in lbmk.
certain cbmk-specific variable names have been made
generic, with certain functions and other variables
moved around.
i maintain sync between libreboot and canoeboot, where
both projects can have the same behaviours, and most of
the merge conflicts have to do with variable names
containing "LBMK", "lbmk", "cbmk" or "CBMK", or
indeed "canoeboot" and "libreboot"
LBMK/lbmk/CBMK/cbmk variables between canoeboot and
libreboot now contain the string XBMK/xbmk
it should now be *much* easier to merge build system
changes between lbmk and cbmk.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <info@minifree.org>
it's only used from main() in the main build script,
and it's very small, as is main()
therefore, move the logic into main()
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>