openembedded-core.git/meta/classes/syslinux.bbclass, branch fido

INITRD var: make it a list of filesystem images

2014-08-02T08:21:14+00:00

The initrd image used by the Linux kernel is list of file system images
concatenated together and presented as a single initrd file at boot time.

So far the initrd is a single filesystem image. But in cases like to support
early microcode loading, the initrd image need to have multiple filesystem
images concatenated together.

This commit is extending the INITRD variable from a single filesystem image
to a list of filesystem images to satisfy the need mentioned above.

Signed-off-by: Nitin A Kamble 
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold 
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie

syslinux.bbclass: Ensure MLPREFIX is applied to depends flag

2014-06-24T18:53:02+00:00

Add MLPREFIX to depends flag to ensure the correct syslinux is
dependended upon.

Signed-off-by: Ming Liu 
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie

syslinux.bbclass: Enable additional kernel parameters for syslinux

2014-03-30T09:03:23+00:00

Add additional parameter 'SYSLINUX_KERNEL_ARGS' in order to allow
for specific kernel parameters to be set when using syslinux.

The extra kernel parameters are added to btype[1] and then written out
as part of the APPEND field.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Scherer 
Signed-off-by: Mark Hatle 
Signed-off-by: Hongxu Jia 
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie

syslinux: add APPEND to dependency list

2013-11-12T10:15:00+00:00

Changing APPEND wasn't causing syslinux to re-run, so add a manual dependency.

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton 
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie

syslinux.bbclass: Fix default serial port string

2013-11-01T06:57:03+00:00

The default value of SYSLINUX_SERIAL_TTY is not correct.

It should be console=ttyS0,115200 else the boot string generated in
the syslinux menus for the serial choice is not correct.  The kernel
boot parameters will get set to:

/vmlinuz initrd=/initrd LABEL=boot root=/dev/ram0 ttyS0,115200

Note that the above is missing the "console="

The default value will now work the same as the value found in
grub-efi.bbclass.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel 
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold

boot-directdisk.bbclass: Fix media generation problems with vmdk

2013-09-26T16:27:23+00:00

The various populate methods need to accept a path as an argument vs
using hard expanded variables.  In the case of the boot-directdisk
class it uses a different path for HDDDIR but it gets eclipsed by the
the class definition at the point in time ${HDDDIR} gets expanded.

The logical fix is to pass the arguments to the functions as opposed
to using globally expanded variables from the class definitions.

This patch changes 3 things:
1) syslinux_hddimg_populate takes an argument for the destination
2) syslinux_iso_populate takes an argument for the destination
3) populate is changed to boot_direct_populate because there
   was a conflict with it overriding the populate in bootimg.bbclass

[YOCTO #3994]

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel 
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold 
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie

syslinux.bbclass, syslinux: Update to syslinux 6.01

2013-09-26T16:27:23+00:00

A newer version of syslinux is required for an EFI enabled isohybrid.
This is used for the the capability to generate 3 types of ISO images,
all of which can be booted off a USB device or HDD if copied with dd.

1) PC BIOS only ISO
2) EFI only ISO
3) EFI + PC BIOS ISO

The syslinux.bbclass required a minor tweak because a few .c32
libraries require dynamic loading from the created media as of
syslinux 5 and up.  This was a good time to also fix the
duplication of the AUTO_SYSLINUXMENU block.

[YOCTO #4100]

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel 
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold 
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie

syslinux.bbclass: Fix hard coding of console=tty*

2013-09-26T16:27:23+00:00

The SYSLINUX_SERIAL variable was hard coded and occasionally needs to
be different for the kernel argument vs the syslinux argument.

In the auto-generated boot mode console=tty0 was hard coded, and this
is not needed at all, and causes problems in some cases if a end user
wanted to change the console=... via the kernel boot argument APPEND
mechanism.  The default can be forced with SYSLINUX_DEFAULT_CONSOLE
for systems that need a special specification to enable the frame
buffer instead of a serial port.

[YOCTO #3944]

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel 
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold 
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie

boot-directdisk: Allow for EFI-only boot direct disk images

2013-09-14T07:26:44+00:00

    Condition building PCBIOS legacy images on MACHINE_FEATURES containing "pcbios"
    or not containing "efi". This ensures existing BSPs will continue to get the
    old PCBIOS legacy-only images. New BSPs can add "efi", "pcbios", or both. The
    images created likewise support one or the other or both.

Signed-off-by: João Henrique Ferreira de Freitas 
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold 
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie

syslinux: Update to 4.06

2013-05-15T21:05:07+00:00

Patches are now part of upstream or no longer needed.
Added new util-linux dependency for isohybrid.
Paths updated to reflect directory structure changes.
Add CFLAGS and LDFLAGS overrides.

[YOCTO #4438]

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Liu 
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold