The generic kernels are too large to be booted by the stock bootloader,
as the boot partition is only 16 MiB. While this commit increases the
kernel size you can use today, the linux-postmarketos kernels are still
too big to boot from extlinux.conf until the [boot memory increase of
lk2nd][1] is released.
lk2nd also provides a better fastboot implementation which doesn't
fully-buffer the image to be written, and thus can write larger images
than the stock bootloader. Forcing fastboot mode requires [flo support
in lk2nd][2], which also requires a lk2nd release. Right now you'll only
get the better fastboot when lk2nd fails to find a kernel, which means a
dance like "use stock bootloader to wipe userdata, then start to lk2nd".
The reason to keep android image support is just for netbooting which
makes testing easier. But netbooting does _not_ work with lk2nd right
now as lk2nd has trouble finding the dtb for some reason; use the stock
boot loader when running "pmbootstrap flasher boot". Changing
flash_offset_ramdisk is to give more space for the kernel to decompress.
1. https://github.com/msm8916-mainline/lk2nd/pull/703
2. https://github.com/msm8916-mainline/lk2nd/pull/697
Part-of: <https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/9031>
The flo bootloader discards the first 26 characters of the kernel
cmdline. The conversion to the new kernel cmdline configuration in !7830
now causes "quiet" from 00-base.conf to be prefied before the xxxxx
padding workaround, which caused the effective cmdline to begin
"xxxxxxconsole=ttyMSM0,115200,n8" (quiet discarded, and console no
longer would parse). Putting the xxxxx workaround in a file that sorts
before 00-base.conf causes the intended characters to be discarded.
The number of xxx's changed from 26 to 25 because now there will be a
space following the string.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/8111>
[Warning!] deviceinfo_append_dtb: Property is set to its default value (false) and can be removed.
[Warning!] deviceinfo_append_dtb_lts: Property is set to its default value (false) and can be removed.
[Warning!] deviceinfo_append_dtb_exynos4: Property is set to its default value (false) and can be removed.
sed -i '/^deviceinfo_append_dtb\(_.*\)\?="false"/d' device/*/*/deviceinfo
[Warning!] deviceinfo_external_storage: Property is set to its default value (false) and can be removed.
sed -i '/^deviceinfo_external_storage="false"/d' device/*/*/deviceinfo
[Warning!] deviceinfo_disable_dhcpd: Property is set to its default value (false) and can be removed.
sed -i '/^deviceinfo_disable_dhcpd="false"/d' device/*/*/deviceinfo
[Warning!] deviceinfo_bootimg_qcdt: Property is set to its default value (false) and can be removed.
sed -i '/^deviceinfo_bootimg_qcdt="false"/d' device/*/*/deviceinfo
Part-of: <https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/8035>
A large scripted cleanup to fix the errors, each with the sed command
used.
**Renamed variables**
[Error!!!] deviceinfo_gpu_accelerated: gpu_accelerated was renamed to drm: More accurately describes its function; see pmaports#1481 for the reasoning.
sed -i 's/^deviceinfo_gpu_accelerated=/deviceinfo_drm=/' device/*/*/deviceinfo
[Error!!!] deviceinfo_flash_heimdall_partition_system: flash_heimdall_partition_system was renamed to flash_heimdall_partition_rootfs: Renamed to avoid confusion
sed -i 's/^deviceinfo_flash_heimdall_partition_system=/deviceinfo_flash_heimdall_partition_rootfs=/' device/*/*/deviceinfo
[Error!!!] deviceinfo_flash_fastboot_partition_system: flash_fastboot_partition_system was renamed to flash_fastboot_partition_rootfs: Renamed to avoid confusion
sed -i 's/^deviceinfo_flash_fastboot_partition_system=/deviceinfo_flash_fastboot_partition_rootfs=/' device/*/*/deviceinfo
**Obsolete variables**
[Error!!!] deviceinfo_keyboard: This property is obsolete: Programs should automatically detect if the device currently has a keyboard or not (often it can be hotplugged anyway).
sed -i '/^deviceinfo_keyboard=/d' device/*/*/deviceinfo
[Error!!!] deviceinfo_framebuffer_landscape: This property is obsolete: Removed by the switch to pbsplash with no apparent replacement
sed -i '/^deviceinfo_framebuffer_landscape=/d' device/*/*/deviceinfo
[Error!!!] deviceinfo_mesa_driver: This property is obsolete: This was used by osk-sdl, which has been replaced by unl0kr.
sed -i '/^deviceinfo_mesa_driver=/d' device/*/*/deviceinfo
**Default values**
[Warning!] deviceinfo_flash_method: Property is set to its default value ("none") and can be removed.
sed -i '/^deviceinfo_flash_method="none"/d' device/*/*/deviceinfo
[Warning!] deviceinfo_drm: Property is set to its default value (false) and can be removed.
sed -i '/^deviceinfo_drm="false"/d' device/*/*/deviceinfo
[Warning!] deviceinfo_bootimg_dtb_second: Property is set to its default value (false) and can be removed.
sed -i '/^deviceinfo_bootimg_dtb_second="false"/d' device/*/*/deviceinfo
[Warning!] deviceinfo_generate_bootimg: Property is set to its default value (false) and can be removed.
sed -i '/^deviceinfo_generate_bootimg="false"/d' device/*/*/deviceinfo
[Warning!] deviceinfo_flash_heimdall_partition_rootfs: Property is set to its default value ("SYSTEM") and can be removed.
sed -i '/^deviceinfo_flash_heimdall_partition_rootfs="SYSTEM"/d' device/*/*/deviceinfo
[Warning!] deviceinfo_flash_heimdall_partition_kernel: Property is set to its default value ("KERNEL") and can be removed.
sed -i '/^deviceinfo_flash_heimdall_partition_kernel="KERNEL"/d' device/*/*/deviceinfo
[Warning!] deviceinfo_flash_heimdall_partition_initfs: Property is set to its default value ("RECOVERY") and can be removed.
sed -i '/^deviceinfo_flash_heimdall_partition_initfs="RECOVERY"/d' device/*/*/deviceinfo
[Warning!] deviceinfo_flash_offset_base: Property is set to its default value ("0x10000000") and can be removed.
sed -i '/^deviceinfo_flash_offset_base="0x10000000"/d' device/*/*/deviceinfo
[Warning!] deviceinfo_flash_kernel_on_update: Property is set to its default value (false) and can be removed.
sed -i '/^deviceinfo_flash_kernel_on_update="false"/d' device/*/*/deviceinfo
[Warning!] deviceinfo_flash_fastboot_partition_rootfs: Property is set to its default value ("userdata") and can be removed.
sed -i '/^deviceinfo_flash_fastboot_partition_rootfs="userdata"/d' device/*/*/deviceinfo
[Warning!] deviceinfo_flash_fastboot_partition_kernel: Property is set to its default value ("boot") and can be removed.
sed -i '/^deviceinfo_flash_fastboot_partition_kernel="boot"/d' device/*/*/deviceinfo
[Warning!] deviceinfo_partition_type: Property is set to its default value ("gpt") and can be removed.
sed -i '/^deviceinfo_partition_type="gpt"/d' device/*/*/deviceinfo
[Warning!] deviceinfo_sd_embed_firmware_step_size: Property is set to its default value (1024) and can be removed.
sed -i '/^deviceinfo_sd_embed_firmware_step_size="1024"/d' device/*/*/deviceinfo
[Warning!] deviceinfo_boot_part_start: Property is set to its default value (2048) and can be removed.
sed -i '/^deviceinfo_boot_part_start="2048"/d' device/*/*/deviceinfo
[Warning!] deviceinfo_generate_legacy_uboot_initfs: Property is set to its default value (false) and can be removed.
sed -i '/^deviceinfo_generate_legacy_uboot_initfs="false"/d' device/*/*/deviceinfo
All were bumped using "pmbootstrap pkgver_bump".
[ci:ignore-count]
[ci:skip-build]: already built successfully in CI
Part-of: <https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/7403>
Don't try to append the dtb if using the downstream kernel.
Fix for:
ERROR: File not found: /usr/share/dtb/qcom-apq8064-asus-nexus7-flo.dtb
Fixes: MR 2239 ("main/linux-postmarketos-qcom-apq8064: new aport")
[ci:skip-build] already built successfully in CI
[ci:ignore-count]
[ci:skip-vercheck] needed for the postmarketos-ui-* packages in this
series
[ci:skip-build] already built ui-* packages in CI, and device pacakges
are just trivial deviceinfo change (manually built some just to verify)
Prepare for better device categorization by moving everything to testing
subdir first.
[skip-ci]: chicken-egg problem: passing pmaports CI depends on pmbootstrap MR
depends on this MR
Related: postmarketos#16
Eric Anderson