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Build commands

kernel

Builds kernel and device tree (where applicable) and places it to the output/debs

Usage:

Bash
./compile.sh kernel BOARD=nanopi-r5c BRANCH=edge

kernel-config

Automatically call kernel’s make menuconfig (add or remove modules or features)

Usage:

Bash
./compile.sh kernel-config BOARD=nanopi-r5c BRANCH=edge

dts-check

Validate dts files and improve board & patch development overall.

This option validates the dts/dtb file for the selected board against the device tree bindings and outputs the validation logs to the user. It can be used when adding a new board, developing or improving a dts file.

Usage:

Bash
./compile.sh dts-check BOARD=nanopi-r5c BRANCH=edge 

inventory-boards

Outputs a one-board-per-line CSV inventory of boards.

Sets TARGETS_FILE to something that doesn’t exist, so the default-targets.yaml is used (so same list for everyone, save for userpatched-boards)

Usage:

Bash
./compile.sh inventory-boards
Outputs /info/boards-inventory.csv

kernel-dtb

Builds only DTB and outputs full preprocessed dts source

Outputs preprocessed DTS source for the board in question to output/ also outputs the same preprocessed DTS source, ran through dtc with input and output DTS formats for “normalized” comparisons

Usage:

Bash
./compile.sh kernel-dtb BOARD=xxxxx BRANCH=edge

rewrite-uboot-patches

Prepares git, applies patches to git, and rewrites them back from git same as kernel, it does git archeology for mbox-less patches, etc.

  • uboot-patches-to-git alias is also added, but my guess is that the rewrite is more useful.
  • refactor a common config function for both kernel and uboot.

Usage:

Bash
./compile.sh rewrite-uboot-patches BOARD=xxxx BRANCH=edge 

targets

Generates output/info/git_sources.json file containing URL, branch, and commit hash combo.

The easiest way to generate file for all devices is to run ./compile.sh targets. Then, at the time of release, we will copy the output/info/git_sources.json file to config/sources/git_sources.json. Once the file is copied, the hash information from the file will be used to fetch resources for git repositories where branches are specified instead of tags or commits.

Usage:

Bash
./compile.sh targets