* Ported Marvell armhf build on x86 for debian buster to use cross-compilation instead of qemu emulation
Current armhf Sonic build on amd64 host uses qemu emulation. Due to the
nature of the emulation it takes a very long time, about 22-24 hours to
complete the build. The change I did to reduce the building time by
porting Sonic armhf build on amd64 host for Marvell platform for debian
buster to use cross-compilation on arm64 host for armhf target. The
overall Sonic armhf building time using cross-compilation reduced to
about 6 hours.
Signed-off-by: marvell <marvell@cpss-build3.marvell.com>
* Fixed final Sonic image build with dockers inside
* Update Dockerfile.j2
Fixed qemu-user-static:x86_64-aarch64-5.0.0-2 .
* Update cross-build-arm-python-reqirements.sh
Added support for both armhf and arm64 cross-build platform using $PY_PLAT environment variable.
* Update Makefile
Added TARGET=<cross-target> for armhf/arm64 cross-compilation.
* Reviewer's @qiluo-msft requests done
Signed-off-by: marvell <marvell@cpss-build3.marvell.com>
* Added new radius/pam patch for arm64 support
* Update slave.mk
Added missing back tick.
* Added libgtest-dev: libgmock-dev: to the buster Dockerfile.j2. Fixed arm perl version to be generic
* Added missing armhf/arm64 entries in /etc/apt/sources.list
* fix libc-bin core dump issue from xumia:fix-libc-bin-install-issue commit
* Removed unnecessary 'apt-get update' from sonic-slave-buster/Dockerfile.j2
* Fixed saiarcot895 reviewer's requests
* Fixed README and replaced 'sed/awk' with patches
* Fixed ntp build to use openssl
* Unuse sonic-slave-buster/cross-build-arm-python-reqirements.sh script (put all prebuilt python packages cross-compilation/install inside Dockerfile.j2). Fixed src/snmpd/Makefile to use -j1 in all cases
* Clean armhf cross-compilation build fixes
* Ported cross-compilation armhf build to bullseye
* Additional change for bullseye
* Set CROSS_BUILD_ENVIRON default value n
* Removed python2 references
* Fixes after merge with the upstream
* Deleted unused sonic-slave-buster/cross-build-arm-python-reqirements.sh file
* Fixed 2 @saiarcot895 requests
* Fixed @saiarcot895 reviewer's requests
* Removed use of prebuilt python wheels
* Incorporated saiarcot895 CC/CXX and other simplification/generalization changes
Signed-off-by: marvell <marvell@cpss-build3.marvell.com>
* Fixed saiarcot895 reviewer's additional requests
* src/libyang/patch/debian-packaging-files.patch
* Removed --no-deps option when installing wheels. Removed unnecessary lazy_object_proxy arm python3 package instalation
Co-authored-by: marvell <marvell@cpss-build3.marvell.com>
Co-authored-by: marvell <marvell@cpss-build2.marvell.com>
- Support compile sonic arm image on arm server. If arm image compiling is executed on arm server instead of using qemu mode on x86 server, compile time can be saved significantly.
- Add kernel argument systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0 for upgrade systemd to version 247, according to #7228
- rename multiarch docker to sonic-slave-${distro}-march-${arch}
Co-authored-by: Xianghong Gu <xgu@centecnetworks.com>
Co-authored-by: Shi Lei <shil@centecnetworks.com>
Compiling ethtool from source is causing ethtool unit tests to fail on ARM Platforms.
These tests are failing: (By default netlink-interface is enabled while compiling ethtool)
Link: ([Test File Link](https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/ethtool/-/blob/debian/1%255.9-1/test-cmdline.c#L28))
```
FAIL: test-cmdline
==================
E: ethtool 16_char_devname! returns 1
E: ethtool
127_char_devname0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcde returns 1
E: ethtool --change devname xcvr external returns 0
E: ethtool --change devname speed 100 duplex half port tp autoneg on advertise 0x1 phyad 1 xcvr external wol p sopass 01:23:45:67:89:ab msglvl 1 returns 0
FAIL test-cmdline (exit status: 1)
```
Tested this on Local ARM Emulated Container:
```
(Docker Container Emulating ARM)
vkarri@3a03c70eed35:/tmp/ethtool$ ./ethtool 16_char_devname!
netlink interface initialization failed, device name longer than 15 not supported
vkarri@3a03c70eed35:/tmp/ethtool$ echo $?
1 (Expected 0)
vkarri@3a03c70eed35:~/ethtool$ ./ethtool 16_char_devnameee
netlink interface initialization failed, device name longer than 15 not supported
Checked for dependencies: (all are present)
vkarri@3a03c70eed35:~/ethtool$ apt-cache policy libmnl0
libmnl0:
Installed: 1.0.4-2
Candidate: 1.0.4-2
Version table:
*** 1.0.4-2 500
500 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main armhf Packages
500 http://packages.trafficmanager.net/debian/debian buster/main armhf Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
vkarri@3a03c70eed35:~/ethtool$ apt-cache policy libc6
libc6:
Installed: 2.28-10
Candidate: 2.28-10
Version table:
*** 2.28-10 500
500 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main armhf Packages
500 http://packages.trafficmanager.net/debian/debian buster/main armhf Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
```
#### How I did it
Disabled netlink-interface for ethtool.
Even though Netlink is not available, it doesn't seem to impact what ethtool was supposed to do. In fact the older version which was in use before this PR [#5725](https://github.com/Azure/sonic-buildimage/pull/5725) did not have netlink support and everything seemed to work well
Article on Netlink-Support for ethtool: https://lwn.net/Articles/783633/
Signed-off-by: Vivek Reddy Karri <vkarri@nvidia.com>
