[Letux-kernel] Patch suggestion make targz-pkg

[H. Nikolaus Schaller]

> Am 21.02.2017 um 21:39 schrieb H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns at goldelico.com>:
> 
> Hi Josua,
> 
>> Am 21.02.2017 um 21:20 schrieb Josua Mayer <josua.mayer at jm0.eu>:
>> 
>> Hi everybody,
>> 
>> During my occasional episodes of building and deploying the kernel on
>> the gta04, I have found that the build system has the nice feature,
>> make tar*-pkg,
> 
> interesting. Yes, there are a lot of hidden features...
> 
>> which creates a tarball of the kernel image and all modules, so all I
>> have to do after a build or rebuild is
>> tar -C /mnt/sdcard -xpf linux-4.10.0-letux+-arm.tar.gz
> 
> Well, I have a ./mgta04 script which does all the builds and packs and
> copies results to a directory and takes the current git branch name so
> that I always have older builds (separated git branch names) for comparisons.
> 
> And I have a ./dl script which installs things on my SD cards.

I should also mention that it tries to find out if I write to a single
partition card or a dual partition. In the first case it writes the kernel
and dtb to /boot. In the other case it writes them to the root of the boot
partition. Modules of course always go to the rootfs partition.

> It usually
> installs the current branch but if -b is given I can also install an older
> branch. So these scripts know what to do and copy separate .tbz for kernel,
> modules and device trees. But they are not generic enough to be published
> anywhere.
> 
> If I run ./dl -p things are published to the server and appear e.g. here:
> 
> http://download.goldelico.com/letux-kernel/letux-4.10/
> 
>> 
>> However it currently does not include any arm-specific targets such as
>> DeviceTree blobs and the compressed zImage.
>> Furthermore the tarred modules are not stripped. Sometimes I would like
>> them stripped, and sometimes I wouldn't.
> 
> I usually have them unstripped (although this needs a lot of disk space)
> but the flash-nand script strips them before flashing. Since the typical
> NAND is less than 10% of my typical SD cards and every byte counts :(
> There I also filter the modules that are really loaded by the kernel.
> 
> The only problem I have with unstripped modules is that it takes quite
> some time to upload them to the Goldelico server through the Internet.
> 
>> 
>> So I have proposed 2 patches that add zImage and dtbs to that tarball.
>> Please let me know your opinions if this is something that we should try
>> to mainline.
> 
> Looks reasonable. And although I have no use of it, others may find it
> beneficial and the discussion on LKML will certainly give a lot of feedback
> (let's hope not too controversial).
> 
>> 
>> br
>> Josua Mayer
> 
> BR,
> Nikolaus
> 
>> 
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