* split out rtl-nic firmware from the big
linux-firmware package
[hfreyther: For whatever reasons the NIC works without
additional firmware as well. I couldn't see in the driver
source when that is the case and which features are missing]
We want to enable the watchdog in the bootloader already and
for this to be failsafe we need to have a kernel that can boot
and get ethernet without any additional modules. Now systemd
would not be able to trigger the watchdog and the system would
reboot within 60 seconds. I am not sure how the kernel upgrade
will go and we need to try this.
Related: SYS#374
We have changed the strategy to support multiple BTS with a single
build but don't remove support from files that are used with Edison.
Linux 3.10 and systemd were not used with edison though. So we can
remove it. As the sysmobts-2050 extended the sysmobts-v2 build most
of the -sysmobts-2050 changes are not needed anyway.
This variable doesn't exist on dora and will not break things.
Fixes:
ERROR: Please ensure module rtfifo is listed in KERNEL_MODULE_PROBECONF since module_conf_rtfifo is set
* to be able to mount vfat formatted
usbsticks we need the nls subsystem
* providing nls as modules is a bad idea because
you need to add them at image creation
* better include them into the kernel,
like the kernel for bts and bts-2050 does
We will change the MTD partitioning for our devices soon. The
kernel needs to honor the cmdline given by the kernel for that.
The rootfs will move a few pages to the back with newer bootloaders.
The name/structure of the NAT configuration was changed. Catch up
and put the new names into the old defconfig too. It is an ugly hack
to have it work with v3.2 and v3.10 kernels. The sysmobsc has been
fixed independently.
* use seperate defconfig, because of option changed from 2.6.39 to 3.10
* use python magic to switch between linux and linux-sysmocom
* add sysmocom-bsc to compatible machines for linux-sysmocom
* add new confiugration parameters for syslinux
This currently requires the meta-ti layer but we will make sure
that nothing from it will be required in the end. The kernel is
based on linux-3.2 as this is the "default" TI kernel that supports
the SGX (not that we care)
This is the latest stable kernel. I had hoped some crashes to
go away with it but it turns out to be a compiler issue that
we backported a patch for separately.
* The Linux 3.2.X kernel has some funny issues with GCC 4.8 in the
fs/namei.c look up code. It is easier to move to 3.10 than to fully
debug the issue.
* disable the mISDN loop patch for v3.10
* use the hack to make v3.2 compilable for edison and v3.10 for dora
this might help us in some installations where there are multiple
back-hauls and we want to base routing decisions not only based
on the destination IP.
The build differs in that it doesn't use a getty on ttyS0. In the fuutre,
a modified kernel serial driver as well as a 2050-specific utility
for managing the supervisor processor will follow.
The previous change modified the defconfig to not include the legacy
pseudo terminal support. Increase the version for the sysmoBTS to have
a kernel without old terminal files.
There is no need to have the various pty files clobber the /dev
directory when they are never used. Do not force a PR upgrade
right now as we don't have a good upgreade strategy for the v1
and the BSC config.
Some of our target applications require ext3/ext4 support for mounting
an MMC card. While the sysmobts-v1 hardware does not have an external
MMC card slot it is nice to have the same image available for this
hardware.
The kernel has been rebased to target 3.2.40 with various bug
fixes in the upstream work. The sysmobts v2 config has been
changed to allocate space for two more UARTs. These are required
for the multi-trx configuration and they make a warning go away.
This has been fixed in upstream of OE-Core and in newer versions
of Yocto. For Edison provide our own version of the pkg_postinst
and pkg_postrm routines. It is not clear yet if this conflicts with
newer versions of poky but all that could happen is that the symlink
is changed twice and removed twice but the command ends with a || true
so this should not cause any kind of fault.
Henning Heinold
Holger Hans Peter Freyther
Harald Welte
Daniel Willmann
Holger Hans Peter Freyther