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2018-08-30MIPS: Use a custom elf-entry program to find kernel entry pointPaul Burton3-0/+102
For a long time arch/mips/Makefile used nm to discover the kernel entry point by looking for the address of the kernel_entry symbol. This doesn't work for systems which make use of bit 0 of the PC to reflect the ISA mode - ie. microMIPS (and MIPS16, but we don't support building kernels that target MIPS16 anyway). So for a while with commit 5fc9484f5e41 ("MIPS: Set ISA bit in entry-y for microMIPS kernels") we manually modified the last nibble of the output from nm, which worked but wasn't particularly pretty. Commit 27c524d17430 ("MIPS: Use the entry point from the ELF file header") then cleaned this up by using objdump to print the ELF entry point which includes the ISA bit, rather than using nm to print the address of the kernel_entry symbol which doesn't. That removed the ugly replacement of the last nibble, but added its own ugliness by needing to manually sign extend in the 32 bit case. Unfortunately it has been pointed out that objdump's output is localised, and therefore grepping for its "start address" output doesn't work when the user's language settings are such that objdump doesn't print in English. We could simply revert commit 27c524d17430 ("MIPS: Use the entry point from the ELF file header") and return to the manual replacement of the last nibble of entry-y, but it seems that was found sufficiently unpalatable to avoid. We could attempt to force the language used by objdump by setting an environment variable such as LC_ALL, but that seems fragile. Instead we add a small tool named elf-entry which simply prints out the entry point of the kernel in the format we require. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com> Reported-by: Philippe Reynes <philippe.reynes@softathome.com> Tested-by: Philippe Reynes <philippe.reynes@softathome.com> Fixes: 27c524d17430 ("MIPS: Use the entry point from the ELF file header") Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20322/ Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
2017-11-03Update MIPS email addressesPaul Burton1-1/+1
MIPS will soon not be a part of Imagination Technologies, and as such many @imgtec.com email addresses will no longer be valid. This patch updates the addresses for those who: - Have 10 or more patches in mainline authored using an @imgtec.com email address, or any patches dated within the past year. - Are still with Imagination but leaving as part of the MIPS business unit, as determined from an internal email address list. - Haven't already updated their email address (ie. JamesH) or expressed a desire to be excluded (ie. Maciej). - Acked v2 or earlier of this patch, which leaves Deng-Cheng, Matt & myself. New addresses are of the form firstname.lastname@mips.com, and all verified against an internal email address list. An entry is added to .mailmap for each person such that get_maintainer.pl will report the new addresses rather than @imgtec.com addresses which will soon be dead. Instances of the affected addresses throughout the tree are then mechanically replaced with the new @mips.com address. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com> Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@imgtec.com> Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@mips.com> Acked-by: Dengcheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@mips.com> Cc: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com> Cc: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@mips.com> Acked-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@mips.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: trivial@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-10-09MIPS: Fix generic-board-config.sh for builds using O=Paul Burton1-4/+2
When configuring the kernel using one of the generic MIPS defconfig targets, the generic-board-config.sh script is used to check requirements listed in board config fragments against a reference config in order to determine which board config fragments to merge into the final config. When specifying O= to configure in a directory other than the kernel source directory, this generic-board-config.sh script is invoked in the directory that we are configuring in (ie. the directory that O equals), and the path to the reference config is relative to the current directory. The script then changes the current directory to the source tree, which unfortunately breaks later access to the reference file since its path is relative to a directory that is no longer the current working directory. This results in configuration failing with errors such as: $ make ARCH=mips O=tmp 32r2_defconfig make[1]: Entering directory '/home/pburton/src/linux/tmp' Using ../arch/mips/configs/generic_defconfig as base Merging ../arch/mips/configs/generic/32r2.config Merging ../arch/mips/configs/generic/eb.config grep: ./.config.32r2_defconfig: No such file or directory grep: ./.config.32r2_defconfig: No such file or directory The base file '.config' does not exist. Exit. make[1]: *** [arch/mips/Makefile:505: 32r2_defconfig] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/pburton/src/linux-ingenic/tmp' make: *** [Makefile:145: sub-make] Error 2 Fix this by avoiding changing the working directory in generic-board-config.sh, instead using full paths to files under $(srctree)/ where necessary. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> Fixes: 27e0d4b05107 ("MIPS: generic: Allow filtering enabled boards by requirements") Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: kbuild-all@01.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17231/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2017-08-30MIPS: generic: Allow filtering enabled boards by requirementsPaul Burton1-0/+90
Up until now when configuring a generic kernel all board config fragments have been merged by default unless boards are explicitly selected by the user specifying BOARDS=. In many cases this is sub-optimal, since some boards don't make sense to include in some kernels. For example the MIPS SEAD-3 development board has only ever been used with 32 bit CPUs, so including support for the SEAD-3 in a 64 bit kernel is wasteful. This patch introduces support for specifying requirements in board config fragments, using comments formatted like so: # require CONFIG_BLA=y For example the SEAD-3 board could specify that it should only be merged for 32 bit kernels using a requirement line like the following: # require CONFIG_32BIT=y A new generic-board-config.sh script is introduced to handle selecting the board config fragments to merge & calling merge_config.sh to merge them. In order to allow requirements to check Kconfig symbols that are implicitly selected, rather than explicitly specified by generic_defconfig or one of the ISA config fragments, an intermediate .config file is saved & used as a reference when checking requirements. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/16943/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>