The linux-edge kernel enables the BL_SWITCHER kernel option, which enables
an in-kernel big.LITTLE switcher - with it enabled, only 4 cores are enabled
at a time, and the kernel switches between the big and little cores. However,
in a server workload, it's more likely that a user wants all 8 cores to work
simultaneously.
Disable the switcher by default by providing the no_bL_switcher cmdline option.
It can still be re-enabled by writing 1 to /sys/kernel/bL_switcher/active.
Part-of: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketos/pmaports/-/merge_requests/6350
GPT paritions seem to interfere with the firmware baked into the SD card image;
both U-Boot and various Linux tools report the GPT partition table as broken
and fall back to the backup table. Notably, this makes the card difficult to
mount in another device. "Fixing" the partition table makes it refuse to boot.
Force the msdos partition type in deviceinfo to fix this.
Part-of: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/6342
This cmdline argument is now a no-op. Drop it everywhere and add a new
CI check to enforce this.
Adjust the deprecated "minimal" initramfs variant to use
pmos.debug-shell to enable logging instead. It doesn't /support/
dropping to a shell, so the variable takes on a different meaning. But
that's ok since it's at least more consistent.
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Signed-off-by: Caleb Connolly <caleb@postmarketos.org>
Tweaked-by: Oliver Smith <ollieparanoid@postmarketos.org>
[ci:skip-build]: kernel builds are very likely to go through now
ODROID HC2 boards are out-of-use by the maintainer.
Move to testing and remove maintainer.
[ci:skip-build] already built successfully in CI
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This devices runs a close-to mainline kernel as linux-odroid-hc2.
I have 2 of these devices which power my selfhosted infrastructure
for some time now and they work really well! Running my selfhosted
infrastructure on Alpine stable releases would be great.
The ODROID HC2 device must have its boot partition
on a microSD card while the rootfs can be on an external HDD.
Provide a script to transfer the rootfs and update the U-boot script.
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Start NetworkManager on boot to autoconfigure network devices plugged
into the USB port as well.
Drop /etc/network/interfaces to allow NetworkManager manage all
interfaces.
[ci:skip-build] already built successfully in CI
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[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)
knuxify