buildroot: Move to 2016.08 release

Package changes:

 - ethtool: bump to version 4.6
 - dropbear: bump version to 2016.74 (severe security bugfixes)
 - ncurses: various packaging fixes
 - i2c-tools: packaging changes
 - gcc: bump 4.9 series to 4.9.4
 - busybox: bump to version 1.25.0
 - elfutils: bump version to 0.166
 - glibc: bump default to version 2.23
 - eudev: bump version to 3.2. libgudev has moved to it's own package
 - kmod: bump version to 23
 - lvm2: bump version to 2.02.162
 - pciutils: bump to version 3.5.1

Configuration changes:

 - BR2_GLIBC_VERSION_2_23=y is now the default defconfigs that specified
   it do not require it set anymore.

 - The mambo and firenze defconfigs were regenerated to remove redundant
   information. The resulting .config should have no differences.

Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
11 files changed
tree: 777fe71df046357d9b30e8137542de091b46ca03
  1. ci/
  2. dl/
  3. openpower/
  4. output/
  5. .gitignore
  6. .gitmodules
  7. LICENSE
  8. NOTICE
  9. op-build-env
  10. README.md
README.md

OpenPower Firmware Build Environment

The OpenPower firmware build process uses Buildroot to create a toolchain and build the various components of the PNOR firmware, including Hostboot, Skiboot, OCC, Petitboot etc.

Development

Issues, Milestones, pull requests and code hosting is on github: https://github.com/open-power/op-build

Mailing list: openpower-firmware@lists.ozlabs.org
Info/Subscribe: https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/openpower-firmware
Archives: https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/openpower-firmware/

Building an image

git clone --recursive git@github.com:open-power/op-build.git
cd op-build
. op-build-env
op-build palmetto_defconfig && op-build

This will build an image for a Palmetto system. There exists default configurations for other platforms in openpower/configs/ such as Habanero and Firestone.

Dependancies for 64-bit Ubuntu/Debian systems

  1. Install Ubuntu (>= 14.04) or Debian (>= 7.5) 64-bit.

  2. Enable Universe:

     sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
     sudo add-apt-repository universe
    
  3. Install the packages necessary for the build:

     sudo apt-get install cscope ctags libz-dev libexpat-dev \
       python language-pack-en texinfo \
       build-essential g++ git bison flex unzip \
       libxml-simple-perl libxml-sax-perl libxml2-dev libxml2-utils xsltproc \
       wget bc
    

Dependancies for 64-bit Fedora systems

  1. Install Fedora 23 64-bit.

  2. Install the packages necessary for the build:

     sudo dnf install gcc-c++ flex bison git ctags cscope expat-devel patch \
       zlib-devel zlib-static texinfo perl-bignum "perl(XML::Simple)" \
       "perl(YAML)" "perl(XML::SAX)" "perl(Fatal)" "perl(Thread::Queue)" \
       "perl(Env)" "perl(XML::LibXML)" "perl(Digest::SHA1)" libxml2-devel \
       which wget unzip tar cpio python bzip2 bc findutils ncurses-devel