I am trying to create my own system for Raspberry Pi4 using Buildroot.
Target is to make custom OS with Xorg, Qt5 and OpenGLESv2 HW rendering. I create my custom Buildroot configuration, nothing specific yet. Very similar to default raspberry pi4 buildroot config but enabled Xorg/Mesa/OpenGLES. My config is that:
BR2_arm=y
BR2_cortex_a72=y
BR2_ARM_FPU_NEON_VFPV4=y
BR2_CCACHE=y
BR2_CCACHE_DIR="$(BR2_EXTERNAL_I_TREE_PATH)/../.buildroot-ccache"
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_GLIBC=y
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_CXX=y
BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_HOSTNAME="MyHost"
BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_ISSUE="Welcome to MyHost"
BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_CREATION_DYNAMIC_EUDEV=y
BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_ROOT_PASSWD="4rt56gbd"
BR2_SYSTEM_DHCP="eth0"
BR2_ROOTFS_USERS_TABLES="$(BR2_EXTERNAL_I_TREE_PATH)/board/rpi4/users.txt"
BR2_ROOTFS_OVERLAY="$(BR2_EXTERNAL_I_TREE_PATH)/rootfs_overlay/"
BR2_ROOTFS_POST_BUILD_SCRIPT="$(BR2_EXTERNAL_I_TREE_PATH)/board/rpi4/post-build.sh"
BR2_ROOTFS_POST_IMAGE_SCRIPT="$(BR2_EXTERNAL_I_TREE_PATH)/board/rpi4/post-image.sh"
BR2_ROOTFS_POST_SCRIPT_ARGS="--add-miniuart-bt-overlay"
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL=y
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_TARBALL=y
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_TARBALL_LOCATION="$(call github,raspberrypi,linux,967d45b29ca2902f031b867809d72e3b3d623e7a)/linux-967d45b29ca2902f031b867809d72e3b3d623e7a.tar.gz"
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DEFCONFIG="bcm2711"
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DTS_SUPPORT=y
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_INTREE_DTS_NAME="bcm2711-rpi-4-b"
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_NEEDS_HOST_OPENSSL=y
BR2_PACKAGE_GLMARK2=y
BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_DEMOS=y
BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D=y
BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVER_KMSRO=y
BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVER_V3D=y
BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVER_VC4=y
BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_OPENGL_GLX=y
BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_OPENGL_ES=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XORG7=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XSERVER_XORG_SERVER=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XCB_UTIL_CURSOR=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XCB_UTIL_KEYSYMS=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XCB_UTIL_WM=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XLIB_LIBFS=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XLIB_LIBXSCRNSAVER=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XLIB_LIBXCOMPOSITE=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XLIB_LIBXFONT=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XLIB_LIBXTST=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XLIB_LIBXVMC=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XLIB_LIBXXF86DGA=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XLIB_LIBDMX=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XAPP_X11PERF=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XAPP_XCALC=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XAPP_XCLOCK=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XDRIVER_XF86_INPUT_KEYBOARD=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XDRIVER_XF86_INPUT_LIBINPUT=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XDRIVER_XF86_INPUT_MOUSE=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XDRIVER_XF86_VIDEO_FBDEV=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XDRIVER_XF86_VIDEO_FBTURBO=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_ADOBE_100DPI=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_ADOBE_75DPI=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_ADOBE_UTOPIA_100DPI=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_ADOBE_UTOPIA_75DPI=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_ADOBE_UTOPIA_TYPE1=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_ARABIC_MISC=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_BH_100DPI=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_BH_75DPI=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_BH_LUCIDATYPEWRITER_100DPI=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_BH_LUCIDATYPEWRITER_75DPI=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_BH_TTF=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_BH_TYPE1=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_BITSTREAM_100DPI=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_BITSTREAM_75DPI=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_BITSTREAM_TYPE1=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_CRONYX_CYRILLIC=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_DAEWOO_MISC=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_DEC_MISC=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_IBM_TYPE1=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_ISAS_MISC=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_JIS_MISC=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_MICRO_MISC=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_MISC_CYRILLIC=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_MISC_ETHIOPIC=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_MISC_MELTHO=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_MUTT_MISC=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_SCHUMACHER_MISC=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_SCREEN_CYRILLIC=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_SONY_MISC=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_SUN_MISC=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_WINITZKI_CYRILLIC=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XFONT_FONT_XFREE86_TYPE1=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XDATA_XCURSOR_THEMES=y
BR2_PACKAGE_NODM=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XTERM=y
BR2_PACKAGE_OPENBOX=y
BR2_PACKAGE_RPI_FIRMWARE=y
BR2_PACKAGE_RPI_FIRMWARE_VARIANT_PI4=y
BR2_PACKAGE_RPI_FIRMWARE_X=y
BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3=y
BR2_PACKAGE_LIBDRI2=y
BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSH=y
BR2_PACKAGE_SUDO=y
BR2_PACKAGE_S6=y
BR2_PACKAGE_S6_LINUX_UTILS=y
BR2_PACKAGE_S6_PORTABLE_UTILS=y
BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX_BINARIES=y
BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX_KILL=y
BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX_MOUNT=y
BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2=y
BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_4=y
BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_SIZE="512M"
# BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_TAR is not set
BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_DOSFSTOOLS=y
BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_GENIMAGE=y
BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_MTOOLS=y
First issue comes with X server.
It starts working but very strange/ubnormal. Xorg logs show me lines:
(II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card1)
(II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0)
(II) no primary bus or device found falling back to sys/devices/platform/gpu/drm/card1
But on normal Raspbian OS X server first adds card0 then card1. And makes fall back to card0. Why my Xorg starts with card1?
I think this is my main issue, because of that later GLX extension does not start. And so I cannot make OpenGLES working in my system.
In my config.txt i have line
dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d
and I belive vc4 drivers start properly because I see /dev/dri/card0 /dev/dri/card1 and /dev/dri/renderD128 devices
Maybe someone had similar experience?
What I am doing wrong?
My fault in question.
I was wrong that issue was in order of /dev/dri/card? adding by Xorg.
Issue was different. xserver built in buildroot needs libglamor enabled? this should be enabled in buildroot config. If enabled then es2_info reports no issue with OpenGLES.. besides that in my case still glmark2-es2 does not work with error "Failed to open bo 1: Permission denied"
I am trying to boot a debian ppc power8 ( or 7 ) in a simulation.
I followed the instructions in [1].
The only thing I manage to boot is an ram drive ( initrd ) with mambo kernel, but it is a closed source. I can't do much with it.
So , now I try to boot a mambo kernel ( with a bigus disk support ) from [2] with the debian image disk from [1].
The kernel manages to mount the drive, but i do not reach a login as depiced in [3].
[1] https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/pwrfs/pwrfsinstall.html.
[2] https://github.com/rpsene/linux.git
[3]
9415446: (688292884): [^[[32m OK ^[[0m] Reached target Local File Systems.
729612844: (688490282): Starting LSB: Raise network interfaces....
730353740: (689231178): Starting Trigger Flushing of Journal to Persistent Storage...
731308417: (690185857): Starting Create Volatile Files and Directories...
736470477: (695348428): udev-finish (1378) used greatest stack depth: 10752 bytes left
753931943: (712810985): [^[[32m OK ^[[0m] Started Copy rules generated while the root was ro.
765419589: (724298838): [^[[32m OK ^[[0m] Started Trigger Flushing of Journal to Persistent Storage.
804041342: (762920770): [^[[32m OK ^[[0m] Started Create Volatile Files and Directories.
804330683: (763210111): Starting Update UTMP about System Reboot/Shutdown...
815762188: (774642735): [^[[32m OK ^[[0m] Started Update UTMP about System Reboot/Shutdown.
817676182: (776556815): systemd-journald[1213]: Received request to flush runtime journal from PID 1
1076627432: (1035512412): [^[[32m OK ^[[0m] Started udev Coldplug all Devices.
Did you try this one https://github.com/open-power-sdk/power-simulator? This is the version I have uploaded last year. (bug report are welcome).
Also, you can get free Power VMs at https://minicloud.parqtec.unicamp.br/minicloud/
I have got the simulator up and running:
https://pastebin.com/ibGPeEFu
cloudusr#mambo:~$ ssh root#172.19.98.109
The authenticity of host '172.19.98.109 (172.19.98.109)' can't be established.
ECDSA key fingerprint is SHA256:x4/jPYq6SggOeSPOlQaxJlucih6elJLqog+i4P/euxY.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added '172.19.98.109' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
root#172.19.98.109's password:
The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
root#debianle:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
cpu : POWER9 (raw), altivec supported
clock : 2000.000000MHz
revision : 2.0 (pvr 004e 0200)
timebase : 512000000
platform : PowerNV
model : Mambo,Simulated-System
machine : PowerNV Mambo,Simulated-System
firmware : OPAL
I've booted systemsim a bunch of times with ubuntu userspace. Do you have a copy of the disk image somewhere I can try? Is the sim userspace LE or BE?
I am trying to setup OVS2.6 with DPDK16.07. I am following INSTALL.DPDK.md instructions that came under openvswitch-2.6.0.tar.gz. Getting following warning message in ovs-vswitchd.log:
00034|netdev|WARN|could not create netdev dpdk1 of unknown type dpdk
00035|bridge|WARN|could not open network device dpdk1 (Address family not supported by protocol)
Googling little bit shows this issue is faced by earlier ovs version as well, but I didn't find any satisfactory solution.
Any idea what could be rootcause, and how to fix it?
Thanks!
All ports that are to be used by Open vSwitch must be bound to the uio_pci_generic, igb_uio or vfio-pci module before the application is run. Any network ports under Linux control will be ignored by OvS or any DPDK application.
Please check the output of $DPDK_DIR/tools/dpdk-devbind.py scripts with -s parameter. You must see some ports in "Network devices using DPDK-compatible driver" section like below;
$/dpdk-stable-16.07.2/tools$ ./dpdk-devbind.py -s
Network devices using DPDK-compatible driver
============================================
0000:05:00.0 '82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper)' drv=igb_uio unused=e1000e
0000:05:00.1 '82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper)' drv=igb_uio unused=e1000e
I have the same issue as well, and by checking the code I found that before starting ovs-vswitchd, we should use the command below, to initialize dpdk.
ovs-vsctl --no-wait set Open_vSwitch . other_config:dpdk-init=true
There is a way to indicate to grub to install on a device MBR by UUID instead of using /dev/sdX ? I'm setting a external eSATA hard disk with NixOS, and obviusly, the hard disk not would be always the same /dev/sdX device ?
I see that I can config it with boot.loader.grub.device = "/dev/sdX", but could set it to something like "/dev/disk/by-uuid/...." ??
currently there is no support for what you want in nixos.
see the respective source code here:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/release-15.09/nixos/modules/system/boot/loader/grub/grub.nix
however, you should be able to use:
boot.loader.grub.device = "/dev/mydisk"
but you will need a udev-ruleset like this:
services.udev.extraRules = ''
#Bus 001 Device 005: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port
ATTRS{idVendor}=="067b", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2303", MODE="666", SYMLINK+="ttyUSB-odroid-u3-1"
#Bus 003 Device 055: ID 10c4:ea60 Cygnal Integrated Products, Inc. CP210x UART Bridge / myAVR mySmartUSB light
ATTRS{idVendor}=="10c4", ATTRS{idProduct}=="ea60", MODE="666", SYMLINK+="ttyUSB-odroid-u3-2"
# Bus 003 Device 057: ID 054c:0268 Sony Corp. Batoh Device / PlayStation 3 Controller
ATTRS{idVendor}=="054c", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0268", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ACTION=="add", MODE="0660", GROUP="users"
'';
but for your external harddrive of course. just by using the symlink feature.
I'm compiling a custom kernel under Ubuntu and I'm running into the problem that my kernel doesn't seem to know where to look for firmware. Under Ubuntu 8.04, firmware is tied to kernel version the same way driver modules are. For example, kernel 2.6.24-24-generic stores its kernel modules in:
/lib/modules/2.6.24-24-generic
and its firmware in:
/lib/firmware/2.6.24-24-generic
When I compile the 2.6.24-24-generic Ubuntu kernel according the "Alternate Build Method: The Old-Fashioned Debian Way" I get the appropriate modules directory and all my devices work except those requiring firmware such as my Intel wireless card (ipw2200 module).
The kernel log shows for example that when ipw2200 tries to load the firmware the kernel subsystem controlling the loading of firmware is unable to locate it:
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason -2
errno-base.h defines this as:
#define ENOENT 2 /* No such file or directory */
(The function returning ENOENT puts a minus in front of it.)
I tried creating a symlink in /lib/firmware where my kernel's name pointed to the 2.6.24-24-generic directory, however this resulted in the same error. This firmware is non-GPL, provided by Intel and packed by Ubuntu. I don't believe it has any actual tie to a particular kernel version. cmp shows that the versions in the various directories are identical.
So how does the kernel know where to look for firmware?
Update
I found this solution to the exact problem I'm having, however it no longer works as Ubuntu has eliminated /etc/hotplug.d and no longer stores its firmware in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware.
Update2
Some more research turned up some more answers. Up until version 92 of udev, the program firmware_helper was the way firmware got loaded. Starting with udev 93 this program was replaced with a script named firmware.sh providing identical functionality as far as I can tell. Both of these hardcode the firmware path to /lib/firmware. Ubuntu still seems to be using the /lib/udev/firmware_helper binary.
The name of the firmware file is passed to firmware_helper in the environment variable $FIRMWARE which is concatenated to the path /lib/firmware and used to load the firmware.
The actual request to load the firmware is made by the driver (ipw2200 in my case) via the system call:
request_firmware(..., "ipw2200-bss.fw", ...);
Now somewhere in between the driver calling request_firmware and firmware_helper looking at the $FIRMWARE environment variable, the kernel package name is getting prepended to the firmware name.
So who's doing it?
From the kernel's perspective, see /usr/src/linux/Documentation/firmware_class/README:
kernel(driver): calls request_firmware(&fw_entry, $FIRMWARE, device)
userspace:
- /sys/class/firmware/xxx/{loading,data} appear.
- hotplug gets called with a firmware identifier in $FIRMWARE
and the usual hotplug environment.
- hotplug: echo 1 > /sys/class/firmware/xxx/loading
kernel: Discard any previous partial load.
userspace:
- hotplug: cat appropriate_firmware_image > \
/sys/class/firmware/xxx/data
kernel: grows a buffer in PAGE_SIZE increments to hold the image as it
comes in.
userspace:
- hotplug: echo 0 > /sys/class/firmware/xxx/loading
kernel: request_firmware() returns and the driver has the firmware
image in fw_entry->{data,size}. If something went wrong
request_firmware() returns non-zero and fw_entry is set to
NULL.
kernel(driver): Driver code calls release_firmware(fw_entry) releasing
the firmware image and any related resource.
The kernel doesn't actually load any firmware at all. It simply informs userspace, "I want a firmware by the name of xxx", and waits for userspace to pipe the firmware image back to the kernel.
Now, on Ubuntu 8.04,
$ grep firmware /etc/udev/rules.d/80-program.rules
# Load firmware on demand
SUBSYSTEM=="firmware", ACTION=="add", RUN+="firmware_helper"
so as you've discovered, udev is configured to run firmware_helper when the kernel asks for firmware.
$ apt-get source udev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Need to get 312kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main udev 117-8ubuntu0.2 (dsc) [716B]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main udev 117-8ubuntu0.2 (tar) [245kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main udev 117-8ubuntu0.2 (diff) [65.7kB]
Fetched 312kB in 1s (223kB/s)
gpg: Signature made Tue 14 Apr 2009 05:31:34 PM EDT using DSA key ID 17063E6D
gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
dpkg-source: extracting udev in udev-117
dpkg-source: unpacking udev_117.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: applying ./udev_117-8ubuntu0.2.diff.gz
$ cd udev-117/
$ cat debian/patches/80-extras-firmware.patch
If you read the source, you'll find that Ubuntu wrote a firmware_helper which is hard-coded to first look for /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/$FIRMWARE, then /lib/modules/$FIRMWARE, and no other locations. Translating it to sh, it does approximately this:
echo -n 1 > /sys/$DEVPATH/loading
cat /lib/firmware/$(uname -r)/$FIRMWARE > /sys/$DEVPATH/data \
|| cat /lib/firmware/$FIRMWARE > /sys/$DEVPATH/data
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
echo -n 1 > /sys/$DEVPATH/loading
echo -n -1 > /sys/$DEVPATH/loading
fi
which is exactly the format the kernel expects.
To make a long story short: Ubuntu's udev package has customizations that always look in /lib/firmware/$(uname -r) first. This policy is being handled in userspace.
Wow this is very useful information and it led me to the solution for my problem when making a custom USB kernel module for a device requiring firmware.
Basically, every Ubuntu brings a new rehash of hal,sysfs,devfs,udev,and so on...and things just change. In fact I read they stopped using hal.
So let's reverse engineer this yet again so it's pertinent to the latest [Ubuntu] systems.
On Ubuntu Lucid (the latest at time of writing), /lib/udev/rules.d/50-firmware.rules is used. This file calls the binary /lib/udev/firmware, where magic happens.
Listing: /lib/udev/rules.d/50-firmware.rules
# firmware-class requests, copies files into the kernel
SUBSYSTEM=="firmware", ACTION=="add", RUN+="firmware --firmware=$env{FIRMWARE} --devpath=$env{DEVPATH}"
The magic should be something along these lines (source: Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Ed., Ch. 14: The Linux Device Model):
echo 1 to loading
copy firmware to data
on failure, echo -1 to loading and halt firmware loading process
echo 0 to loading (signal the kernel)
then, a specific kernel module receives the data and pushes it to the device
If you look at Lucid's source page for udev, in udev-151/extras/firmware/firmware.c, the source for that firmware /lib/udev/firmware binary, that's exactly what goes on.
Excerpt: Lucid source, udev-151/extras/firmware/firmware.c
util_strscpyl(datapath, sizeof(datapath), udev_get_sys_path(udev), devpath, "/data", NULL);
if (!copy_firmware(udev, fwpath, datapath, statbuf.st_size)) {
err(udev, "error sending firmware '%s' to device\n", firmware);
set_loading(udev, loadpath, "-1");
rc = 4;
goto exit;
};
set_loading(udev, loadpath, "0");
Additionally, many devices use an Intel HEX format (textish files containing checksum and other stuff) (wiki it i have no reputation and no ability to link). The kernel program ihex2fw (called from Makefile in kernel_source/lib/firmware on .HEX files) converts these HEX files to an arbitrary-designed binary format that the Linux kernel then picks up with request_ihex_firmware, because they thought reading text files in the kernel was silly (it would slow things down).
On current Linux systems, this is handled via udev and the firmware.agent.
Linux 3.5.7 Gentoo, I have the same issue.
SOLVED:
emerge ipw2200-firmware
Then go to /usr/src/linux
make menucofig
on device driver, remove all wirless drivers don't needed, set Intell 2200 as module and recompile.
make
make modules_install
cp arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-yourdefault