4 This is a set of simple shell scripts to cross compile everything
5 that is needed in order to run an evas based bootmenu application
6 with the framebuffer backend.
8 The ultimate goal is to build a complete initramfs (containing
9 the bootmenu application) and kernel which can be flashed to your
15 In theory all you need to do is run ./build.sh which should
16 create an uImage-GTA02.bin ready to flash to your device.
18 Make sure to have the pre-requirements installed.
26 The build scripts are currently not self contained they require
27 various host tools. Please make sure you have the following ones
30 git svn cvs lzop dfu-util autoconf automake libtool gettext
31 mkimage pkg-config (>= 0.23)
33 uClibc armv4tl cross toolchain
34 ------------------------------
36 The boot system is uclibc based we can therefore _not_ use the
37 openmoko toolchain. Instead we need an uclibc based armv4tl
38 cross toolchain. Building one from scratch is however out of
39 scope of this project.
41 By default the scripts download a pre built toolchain from the
42 Aboriginal Linux project.
44 http://www.landley.net/code/aboriginal/
46 It is relocatable and uses a gcc wrapper script to make the gcc path
47 logic somewhat sane (if that's possible at all). It is the only tested
48 and supported toolchain.
50 If for whatever reason you don't want to run a pre built toolchain
51 you can run ./build.sh aboriginal which compiles one from scratch.
52 Altneratively you can also build one according to the Aboriginal Linux
53 documentation, make sure to add the toolchains bin directory to your
56 Building the boot system
57 ========================
62 There are a few configuration settings which can be used to tweek the
63 build system in various ways. They can be specified on the command line
64 or via the top level config file which is sourced by the other scripts.
66 What follows is a short descritption of the most important ones:
68 $MACHINE has to be set to either GTA01 or GTA02 the latter is assumed
69 the variable isn't specified
71 $STATIC build qi-bootmenu statically and don't install shared
72 libraries. This results in a slightly smaller + faster
73 initramfs. This is enabled by default.
75 Building the initramfs content, kernel and bootloader
76 -----------------------------------------------------
78 Building the whole system (all packages) including kernel and bootloader
79 is as simple as executing the ./build.sh shell script. This will build
80 a kernel (uImage-$MACHINE.bin) containing the whole boot system as an
81 initramfs and a slightly modified version of the bootloader Qi (qi-*.udfu).
83 If you just want to rebuild an individual package then pass it's name as
84 argument. For example if you just want to rebuild qi-bootmenu then run.
86 ./build.sh qi-bootmenu
88 Installing/Flashing the boot system
89 ===================================
91 The last step should have built a kernel (uImage-$MACHINE.bin) and a
92 bootloader (qi-*.udfu) these files can be flashed in the normal way as
95 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Flashing
97 There are also two scripts included which should make this a straight
98 forward process. Just run the following command and your newly built
99 boot system should be installed.
101 ./flash-kernel.sh && ./flash-qi.sh
106 The basic idea is to first install everything into a $STAGING_DIR and then
107 selectively copy the required bits over to $ROOT_DIR. In the end the
108 $ROOT_OVERLAY directory, which contains configuration files and other things
109 which aren't generated by package builds, is copied over $ROOT_DIR.
111 After the packages are installed into $STAGING_DIR some paths which point
112 to the host systems /usr/lib (because of the --prefix=/usr step) need to
113 be changed. Without this the linker would search for the libraries in the
114 hosts systems library directory.
116 Below are some descriptions of various parts of the build system.
117 A big part of the code was actually taken from the FWL scripts that's why
118 both system work in similar ways.
120 - ./sources/include.sh
122 Contains various environment variables which are needed in other scripts.
124 - ./sources/functions-fwl.sh and ./sources/functions.sh
126 Home of all shell functions which are used in the other parts of the
127 system. These files are sourced from include.sh. functions-fwl.sh is
128 mostly taken from the FWL project.
132 Downloads all the required source packages either with wget from
133 some http/ftp server or uses a source code management system to
134 check it out from a repository.
136 - ./sources/configs/miniconfig-{busybox,uClibc,linux}
138 Configuration files used for busybox, uClibc and the linux kernel
139 in the miniconfig format.
141 - ./sources/patches/$PACKAGE-*
143 Patches for individual packages. They are applied within setup $PACKAGE.
147 Builds all or individual packages based on the files described in
150 - ./sources/sections/$PACKAGE.sh
152 Every package has a shell script with it's build instructions these
153 files are sourced from ./build.sh.
155 They normally start with setupfor $PACKAGE. This extracts the
156 source tarball to ./build/packages/$PACKAGE and applies all patches
157 from ./sources/patches/$PACKAGE-*. The patched source is then copied
158 over to ./build/temp-armv4tl/$PACKAGE where it is built.
160 The packages are then configured with something like:
162 PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${STAGING_DIR}/usr/lib/pkgconfig"
163 CCWRAP_TOPDIR="$STAGING_DIR/usr"
164 CFLAGS="-I$STAGING_DIR/usr/include"
165 ./configure --prefix=/usr
167 This makes sure that the configure script and the compiler actually
168 find the already cross compiled libraries and include files.
170 Packages are then installed into $STAGING_DIR.
172 make DESTDIR="$STAGING_DIR" install.
174 The parts which are actually needed are then copied over to $ROOT_DIR.
176 If the package is a library some paths which point to the host
177 systems /usr/lib (because of the --prefix=/usr step) need to be
178 changed. Without this it wouldn't be possible to link against the
179 library because the linker would always be redirected to the
180 hosts /usr/lib directory.
182 This is the case for libtool's *.la files in $STAGING_DIR/usr/lib
183 and the pkg-config *.pc files in $STAGING_DIR/usr/lib/pkgconfig.
184 The paths are changed by the two functions libtool_fixup_libdir
185 and pkgconfig_fixup_prefix which are located in sources/functions.sh.
187 Finally the build directory is removed with
193 This script copies the content of the $ROOT_OVERLAY directory which
194 contains all the things which aren't generated by package build scripts
195 over $ROOT_DIR. It then strips all unnecessary symbols from the binaries
196 and generates a text file which can be specied as CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE
197 during the kernel build. The kernel build system will then based on this
198 file generate a gziped cpio archive and embed it into the kernel binary.
202 This script simply creates a tarball with the content of the rootfs
203 directory. You can copy this to your Freerunner and chroot into it to
206 Changes to vanilla Qi
207 =====================
209 The boot system also works with the unmodified version of Qi as found in
210 the openmoko git repository.
212 http://git.openmoko.org/?p=qi.git
214 The patches which are applied are thus not strictly necessary but they have
215 a few advantages over vanilla Qi.
217 - You won't have to mark your SD-card partition as not bootable via
218 noboot-$MACHINE files
220 - It's slightly faster because after the first AUX press no further
221 SD-card partitions are scanned Qi proceeds straight away with
224 - The NAND partition is ignored by the bootmenu because Qi will pass
225 the required parameters on the kernel command line this reduces
226 boot time because mounting an jffs2 file system is slow.