Hi,

The OpenPOWER team is working on improving Jenkins CI time and have been doing external toolchain work. We currently have a jenkins job that builds the toolchains per OS, but they cannot be relocated. We can set BR2_HOST_DIR to the directory of our choosing and will work on that for now.

However discussions on the buildroot mailing list suggested that relocation work has been enabled in more recent versions of buildroot.

For example read about this:
Patches
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2015-July/132483.html
and found this
https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot/blob/master/support/scripts/fix-rpath

Not sure of all the dependencies to get this to work and if there is a subset of patches we could just toss on that could work too.

If there's another medium that should be used to discuss this, let me know.

Thanks,

Future op-build releases will presumably choose to install the nvme package to support NVMe devices, however the current buildroot nvme.mk file unconditionally disables libudev support which is required by commands like nvme list.

I've submitted a patch to buildroot upstream to make libudev support configurable, which is being tracked here: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/611565/

Please merge support from Cédric Le Goater [email protected] for kexec'ing compressed kernel images: legoater/kexec-lite@c0f9cc7

When creating a new op-build from scratch this morning I hit the following error:

ipmitool 1.8.14 Downloading
--2014-12-22 09:59:50-- http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipmitool/files/ipmitool/1.8.14/ipmitool-1.8.14.tar.gz
Resolving sourceforge.net... 216.34.181.60
Connecting to sourceforge.net|216.34.181.60|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 500 Internal Server Error
2014-12-22 09:59:54 ERROR 500: Internal Server Error.

--2014-12-22 09:59:54-- http://sources.buildroot.net/ipmitool-1.8.14.tar.gz
Resolving sources.buildroot.net... 176.9.16.109
Connecting to sources.buildroot.net|176.9.16.109|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2014-12-22 09:59:54 ERROR 404: Not Found.

make: *** [/esw/san2/baiocchi/Op_Build/op-build/output/build/ipmitool-1.8.14/.stamp_downloaded] Error 1
make: Leaving directory `/esw/san2/baiocchi/Op_Build/op-build/buildroot'

Both sourceforge.net and buildroot.net didn't have the file. I did find this file on buildroot, though:
http://sources.buildroot.net/ipmitool-1.8.14.tar.bz2

Brian Silver helped me modify buildroot/package/ipmitool/ipmitool.mk to pick up this file:
[NOTE: _SOURCE had to be used to get the ".bz2" at the end of the filename.]

ipmitool

IPMITOOL_VERSION = 1.8.14

IPMITOOL_SITE = http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipmitool/files/ipmitool/$(IPMITOOL_VERSION)/

IPMITOOL_SOURCE = ipmitool-$(IPMITOOL_VERSION).tar.bz2
IPMITOOL_SITE = http://sources.buildroot.net/
IPMITOOL_LICENSE = BSD-4c
IPMITOOL_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING

$(eval $(autotools-package))

We need to resolve why sourceforge.net isn't working.

Pull request open-power/op-build#22 was merged but references buildroot updates that were never done. Please public these buildroot updates and/or create new pull request for op-build that references a valid commit.