Modify, rebuild and reload the Linux® kernel

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1 Overview

This stage explains how modify, rebuild and reload the Linux^® kernel.
You will first be guided to install the Linux^® kernel source code in the Developer Package directory. Then you will execute step by step procedures to modify, rebuild and reload the Linux^® kernel.

2 Download the Linux^® kernel source code

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For ecosystem release v3.1.0 :

• Download the STM32MP15-Ecosystem-v3.1.0 Developer Package Sources into the following directory:
  $HOME/STM32MPU_workspace/STM32MP15-Ecosystem-v3.1.0/Developer-Package
• Uncompress the tarball file to get the Linux^® kernel tarball, ST patches and ST configuration fragments

 cd $HOME/STM32MPU_workspace/STM32MP15-Ecosystem-v3.1.0/Developer-Package
 tar xvf en.SOURCES-kernel-stm32mp1-openstlinux-5.10-dunfell-mp1-21-11-17.tar.xz

For ecosystem release v3.0.0 :

• Download the STM32MP15-Ecosystem-v3.0.0 Developer Package Sources into the following directory:
  $HOME/STM32MPU_workspace/STM32MP15-Ecosystem-v3.0.0/Developer-Package
• Uncompress the tarball file to get the Linux^® kernel tarball, ST patches and ST configuration fragments

 cd $HOME/STM32MPU_workspace/STM32MP15-Ecosystem-v3.0.0/Developer-Package
 tar xvf en.SOURCES-kernel-stm32mp1-openstlinux-5.10-dunfell-mp1-21-03-31.tar.xz

3 Prepare the Linux^® kernel source code

• Extract the Linux^® kernel source

For ecosystem release v3.1.0 :

 cd stm32mp1-openstlinux-5.10-dunfell-mp1-21-11-17/sources/arm-ostl-linux-gnueabi/linux-stm32mp-5.10.61-stm32mp-r2-r0
 tar xvf linux-5.10.61.tar.xz

• Apply ST patches

 cd linux-5.10.61
 for p in `ls -1 ../*.patch`; do patch -p1 < $p; done

• Apply fragments

 make ARCH=arm multi_v7_defconfig "fragment*.config"
 for f in `ls -1 ../fragment*.config`; do scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh -m -r .config $f; done
 yes '' | make ARCH=arm oldconfig

For ecosystem release v3.0.0 :

 cd stm32mp1-openstlinux-5.10-dunfell-mp1-21-03-31/sources/arm-ostl-linux-gnueabi/linux-stm32mp-5.10.10-r0
 tar xvf linux-5.10.10.tar.xz

• Apply ST patches

 cd linux-5.10.10
 for p in `ls -1 ../*.patch`; do patch -p1 < $p; done

• Apply fragments

 make ARCH=arm multi_v7_defconfig "fragment*.config"
 for f in `ls -1 ../fragment*.config`; do scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh -m -r .config $f; done
 yes '' | make ARCH=arm oldconfig

4 Build the Linux^® kernel source code for the first time

Information

Building the kernel for the first time can take several minutes.

• Build kernel images (uImage and vmlinux) and device tree (dtbs)

 make ARCH=arm uImage vmlinux dtbs LOADADDR=0xC2000040

• Build kernel module

 make ARCH=arm modules

• Generate output build artifacts

 mkdir -p $PWD/install_artifact/
 make ARCH=arm INSTALL_MOD_PATH="$PWD/install_artifact" modules_install

5 Deploy the Linux^® kernel on the board

5.1 Push the Linux^® kernel onto the board

 scp arch/arm/boot/uImage root@<board ip address>:/boot

5.2 Push the device tree onto the board

 scp arch/arm/boot/dts/stm32mp157*.dtb root@<board ip address>:/boot

5.3 Push the kernel modules onto the board

For ecosystem release v3.1.0 :

• Remove the link created inside the install_artifact/lib/modules/<kernel version> directory

 rm install_artifact/lib/modules/5.10.61/build install_artifact/lib/modules/5.10.61/source 

• Optionally, strip kernel modules (to reduce the size of each kernel modules)

 find install_artifact/ -name "*.ko" | xargs $STRIP --strip-debug --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note --preserve-dates

• Copy kernel modules

 scp -r install_artifact/lib/modules/* root@<ip of board>:/lib/modules

• Using the Linux^® console, regenerate the list of module dependencies (modules.dep) and the list of symbols provided by modules (modules.symbols)

 /sbin/depmod -a

• Synchronize data on disk with memory

 sync

For ecosystem release v3.0.0 :

• Remove the link created inside the install_artifact/lib/modules/<kernel version> directory

 rm install_artifact/lib/modules/5.10.10/build install_artifact/lib/modules/5.10.10/source 

• Optionally, strip kernel modules (to reduce the size of each kernel modules)

 find install_artifact/ -name "*.ko" | xargs $STRIP --strip-debug --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note --preserve-dates

• Copy kernel modules

 scp -r install_artifact/lib/modules/* root@<ip of board>:/lib/modules

• Using the Linux^® console, regenerate the list of module dependencies (modules.dep) and the list of symbols provided by modules (modules.symbols)

 /sbin/depmod -a

• Synchronize data on disk with memory

 sync

5.4 Reboot the board

 reboot

6 Modify a built-in Linux^® kernel device driver

This simple example adds unconditional log information when the display driver is probed.

• Using the Linux^® console, check that there is no log information when the display driver is probed

 dmesg | grep -i stm_drm_platform_probe

For ecosystem release v3.1.0 :

• Go to the Linux^® kernel source directory

 cd $HOME/STM32MPU_workspace/STM32MP15-Ecosystem-v3.1.0/Developer-Package/stm32mp1-openstlinux-5.10-dunfell-mp1-21-11-17/sources/arm-ostl-linux-gnueabi/linux-stm32mp-5.10.61-stm32mp-r2-r0/linux-5.10.61

• Edit the ./drivers/gpu/drm/stm/drv.c source file
• Add a log information in the stm_drm_platform_probe function as follows

static int stm_drm_platform_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
	struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
	struct drm_device *ddev;
	int ret;
	[...]

	DRM_INFO("Simple example - %s\n", __func__);

	return 0;
	[...]
}

• Save the file
• Rebuild the Linux^® kernel

 make uImage LOADADDR=0xC2000040

• Update the Linux kernel image into board

 scp arch/arm/boot/uImage root@<board ip address>:/boot

• Reboot the board

 reboot

• Check that log information is now present when the display driver is probed

 dmesg | grep -i stm_drm_platform_probe
[    2.764080] [drm] Simple example - stm_drm_platform_probe

For ecosystem release v3.0.0 :

• Go to the Linux^® kernel source directory

 cd $HOME/STM32MPU_workspace/STM32MP15-Ecosystem-v3.0.0/Developer-Package/stm32mp1-openstlinux-5.10-dunfell-mp1-21-03-31/sources/arm-ostl-linux-gnueabi/linux-stm32mp-5.10.10-r0/linux-5.10.10

• Edit the ./drivers/gpu/drm/stm/drv.c source file
• Add a log information in the stm_drm_platform_probe function as follows

static int stm_drm_platform_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
	struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
	struct drm_device *ddev;
	int ret;
	[...]

	DRM_INFO("Simple example - %s\n", __func__);

	return 0;
	[...]
}

• Save the file
• Rebuild the Linux^® kernel

 make uImage LOADADDR=0xC2000040

• Update the Linux kernel image into board

 scp arch/arm/boot/uImage root@<board ip address>:/boot

• Reboot the board

 reboot

• Check that log information is now present when the display driver is probed

 dmesg | grep -i stm_drm_platform_probe
[    2.764080] [drm] Simple example - stm_drm_platform_probe

Linux^® is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

Direct Rendering Manager (kernel module that gives direct hardware access to DRI clients, find more information on official DRI web site http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DRM)

Linux^® is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

Direct Rendering Manager (kernel module that gives direct hardware access to DRI clients, find more information on official DRI web site http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DRM)

Direct Rendering Infrastructure (Linux^® framework for allowing direct access to graphics hardware... find more information on official DRI web site http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/FrontPage)