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- Why I did it Add an ability to add arm64 mellanox specific kconfig using the integration tool Fix the existing duplicate kconfig problem by using the vanilla .config Add an ability to patch kconfig-inclusions file. Renamed series.patch to external-changes.patch to reflect the behavior NOTE: Min hw-mgmt version to use with these changes: V.7.0030.2000 not yet upstream but required prio to it. This option will be enabled one the new hw mgmt will be upstream. Depends on sonic-net/sonic-linux-kernel#336 Signed-off-by: Vivek Reddy Karri <vkarri@nvidia.com> |
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Mellanox non-upstream linux kernel patches
To include non-upstream patches into the sonic-linux image during build time, the INCLUDE_EXTERNAL_PATCHES=y flag has to be provided. By default, the directory pointed by EXTERNAL_KERNEL_PATCH_LOC will be used and it must follow the following structure. To use a publicly accessible tar of the non-upstream patches, also provide the EXTERNAL_KERNEL_PATCH_URL variable
Directory Structure
EXTERNAL_KERNEL_PATCH_LOC/
├──── patches/
├── 0001-mlx5-Refactor-module-EEPROM-query.patch.patch
├── 0002-mlx5-Implement-get_module_eeprom_by_page.patch.patch
├── 0005-mlx5-Add-support-for-DSFP-module-EEPROM-dumps.patch
├── .............
├──── external-changes.patch
- It should contain a file named external-changes.patch. This should contain a diff that is applied on the sonic-linux-kernel/patch/* files. The diff should include all the non-upstream patches.
- All the patches should be present in the patches folder
- Developers should make sure patches apply cleanly over the existing patches present in the src/sonic-linux-kernel .
Include the non upstream patches while building sonic linux kernel
Set INCLUDE_EXTERNAL_PATCHES=y using SONIC_OVERRIDE_BUILD_VARS to include these changes before building the kernel.
- Eg:
NOJESSIE=1 NOSTRETCH=1 NOBUSTER=1 make SONIC_OVERRIDE_BUILD_VARS=' INCLUDE_EXTERNAL_PATCHES=y ' target/debs/bullseye/linux-headers-5.10.0-12-2-common_5.10.103-1_all.deb