[PATCH v2 1/9] boot/apex: Restore the APEX boot loader

[Jonas Gorski]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2023 at 14:51, Robert Marko <robimarko at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 28 Sept 2023 at 15:29, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > This is a partial revert of the deletion of the IXP4xx
> > target: we restore the APEX boot loader so we can use it
> > for the NSLU2 and related targets.
> >
> > The APEX upstream is as dead as it gets so I have applied
> > OpenWrts old patches on top of the never released
> > v1.6.10 version and forked it into an OpenWrt variant
> > on GitHub. If the upstream comes back alive I will
> > happily switch over to it.
> >
> > The file refers to the external GitHub, I suppose when
> > integrating this patch the file should be copied to OpenWrts
> > file repository and the file link changed.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> > ---
> > ChangeLog v1->v2:
> > - Do not default to "y", instead make the device target
> >   select apex by default.
> > - Do not package the boot loader into the rootfs image.
> >   Who wants that.
> > ---
> >  package/boot/apex/Makefile | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 55 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/package/boot/apex/Makefile b/package/boot/apex/Makefile
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..817e15d8e643
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/package/boot/apex/Makefile
> > @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
> > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> > +#
> > +# Copyright (C) 2006-2023 OpenWrt.org
> > +
> > +include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
> > +include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/kernel.mk
> > +
> > +PKG_NAME:=apex
> > +# This version was created from the stalled and unreleased v1.6.10
> > +# with some patches on top.
> > +PKG_VERSION:=1.6.10-openwrt
> > +PKG_RELEASE:=1
> > +
> > +PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
> > +PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://github.com/linusw/apex/releases/download/v1.6.10-openwrt/
> > +PKG_HASH:=034baa99574014f4bcb8d36baf830fa942bef816b22e228eabd7c5663612c640
> > +PKG_TARGETS:=bin
> > +
> > +include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/package.mk
> > +
> > +export GCC_HONOUR_COPTS=s
> > +
> > +define Package/apex
> > +  SECTION:=boot
> > +  CATEGORY:=Boot Loaders
> > +  DEPENDS:=@TARGET_ixp4xx
>
> This will probably break the package if one tries to bisect as there
> is no ixp4xx target yet.

No it's fine, it just depends on a non-existing symbol, so will be
unselectable until the ixp4xx target is added.

So exactly the right order here.

Best Regards,
Jonas