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PATCH Superseded Peter Seiderer 2 participants 2 messages Jan 11, 2015

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PATCH v3 1/1 linux: add fbtft kernel extension

Hello Richard,

Quoted 4 lines · Richard Fergusson

Not sure I'm doing this right, but here goes. With this extension enabled the kernel will not build. It gives the error below. The problem seems to be with line 21 of linux-ext-fbtft.mk. I have edited the file to make it work and have attached the changed file.

Many thanks for testing and reporting this bug (introduced by Thomas on beautifying by original patch and I did not catch the bug on review), patch will follow soon (a little different from yours to avoid the double if statement)...

Regards,
Peter

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- Richard

$ make linux
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linux c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3 Download

additional patches

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linux c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3 Extracting

gzip -d -c /home/richard/buildroot/dl/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3.tar.gz
| tar --strip-components=1 -C /home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3 -xf -

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linux c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3 Patching

if [ -e /home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3/drivers/video/fbdev ]; then dest=/home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3/drivers/video/fbdev ; else dest=/home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3/drivers/video/ ; fi ; mkdir -p ${dest}/fbtft; cp -dpfr /home/richard/buildroot/output/build/fbtft-274035404701245e7491c0c6471c5b72ade4d491/* ${dest}/fbtft/ ; echo 'source "drivers/video/fbdev/fbtft/Kconfig"'

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${dest}/Kconfig ; echo 'obj-y += fbtft/' >> ${dest}/Makefile

for p in board/raspi/kernel-patches/ ; do if echo $p | grep -q -E
"^ftp://|^http://" ; then support/scripts/apply-patches.sh /home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3 /home/richard/buildroot/dl basename $p ; elif test -d $p ; then
support/scripts/apply-patches.sh /home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3
$p linux-\*.patch ; else support/scripts/apply-patches.sh /home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3 dirname $p basename $p ; fi done

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linux c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3 Configuring

/usr/bin/install -m 0644 "board/raspi/linux.config" /home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3/arch/arm/configs/buildroot_defconfig PATH="/home/richard/buildroot/output/host/bin:/home/richard/buildroot/output/host/sbin:/home/richard/buildroot/output/host/usr/bin:/home/richard/buildroot/output/host/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/home/richard/Android/adt-bundle-linux-x86-20130514/sdk/platform-tools:/home/richard/Android/adt-bundle-linux-x86-20130514/sdk/platform-tools" /usr/bin/make -j1 HOSTCC="/usr/bin/gcc" HOSTCFLAGS="" ARCH=arm
INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/home/richard/buildroot/output/target
CROSS_COMPILE=" /home/richard/buildroot/output/host/usr/bin/arm-buildroot-linux-uclibcgnueabi-"
DEPMOD=/home/richard/buildroot/output/host/sbin/depmod -C /home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3
buildroot_defconfig
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3'
HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o
SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c
SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c
SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf
drivers/video/Kconfig:2525: can't open file
"drivers/video/fbdev/fbtft/Kconfig"
/home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3/scripts/kconfig/Makefile:105:
recipe for target 'buildroot_defconfig' failed
make[2]: *** [buildroot_defconfig] Error 1
Makefile:503: recipe for target 'buildroot_defconfig' failed
make[1]: *** [buildroot_defconfig] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3'
package/pkg-generic.mk:172: recipe for target '/home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3/.stamp_configured'
failed
make: *** [/home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3/.stamp_configured]
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PATCH v3 1/1 linux: add fbtft kernel extension

You're welcome. Your patch does indeed look better than my edit. It was just something I threw together to check my theory. I'm definitely no export on writing makefiles or shell scripts.

- Richard

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Hello Richard,

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Not sure I'm doing this right, but here goes. With this extension enabled the kernel will not build. It gives the error below. The problem seems to be with line 21 of linux-ext-fbtft.mk. I have edited the file to make it work and have attached the changed file.

Many thanks for testing and reporting this bug (introduced by Thomas on beautifying by original patch and I did not catch the bug on review), patch will follow soon (a little different from yours to avoid the double if statement)...

Regards,
Peter

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- Richard

$ make linux
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linux c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3 Download

additional patches

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linux c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3 Extracting

gzip -d -c /home/richard/buildroot/dl/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3.tar.gz
| tar --strip-components=1 -C /home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3 -xf -

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linux c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3 Patching

if [ -e /home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3/drivers/video/fbdev ]; then dest=/home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3/drivers/video/fbdev ; else dest=/home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3/drivers/video/ ; fi ; mkdir -p ${dest}/fbtft; cp -dpfr /home/richard/buildroot/output/build/fbtft-274035404701245e7491c0c6471c5b72ade4d491/* ${dest}/fbtft/ ; echo 'source "drivers/video/fbdev/fbtft/Kconfig"'

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${dest}/Kconfig ; echo 'obj-y += fbtft/' >> ${dest}/Makefile

for p in board/raspi/kernel-patches/ ; do if echo $p | grep -q -E
"^ftp://|^http://" ; then support/scripts/apply-patches.sh /home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3 /home/richard/buildroot/dl basename $p ; elif test -d $p ; then
support/scripts/apply-patches.sh /home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3
$p linux-\*.patch ; else support/scripts/apply-patches.sh /home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3 dirname $p basename $p ; fi done

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linux c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3 Configuring

/usr/bin/install -m 0644 "board/raspi/linux.config" /home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3/arch/arm/configs/buildroot_defconfig PATH="/home/richard/buildroot/output/host/bin:/home/richard/buildroot/output/host/sbin:/home/richard/buildroot/output/host/usr/bin:/home/richard/buildroot/output/host/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/home/richard/Android/adt-bundle-linux-x86-20130514/sdk/platform-tools:/home/richard/Android/adt-bundle-linux-x86-20130514/sdk/platform-tools" /usr/bin/make -j1 HOSTCC="/usr/bin/gcc" HOSTCFLAGS="" ARCH=arm
INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/home/richard/buildroot/output/target
CROSS_COMPILE=" /home/richard/buildroot/output/host/usr/bin/arm-buildroot-linux-uclibcgnueabi-"
DEPMOD=/home/richard/buildroot/output/host/sbin/depmod -C /home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3
buildroot_defconfig
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3'
HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o
SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c
SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c
SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf
drivers/video/Kconfig:2525: can't open file
"drivers/video/fbdev/fbtft/Kconfig"
/home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3/scripts/kconfig/Makefile:105:
recipe for target 'buildroot_defconfig' failed
make[2]: *** [buildroot_defconfig] Error 1
Makefile:503: recipe for target 'buildroot_defconfig' failed
make[1]: *** [buildroot_defconfig] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3'
package/pkg-generic.mk:172: recipe for target '/home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3/.stamp_configured'
failed
make: *** [/home/richard/buildroot/output/build/linux-c256eb9968c8997dce47350d2075e42f1b3991d3/.stamp_configured]
Error 2