buildroot/docs/manual, branch 2016.02

docs/manual: add section about patch licensing

2016-03-01T11:46:58+00:00

Use the same text that is used in COPYING. Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Cc: Peter Korsgaard Cc: Thomas Petazzoni Cc: Steve Calfee Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

docs/manual: slightly clarify patch licensing

2016-02-25T10:33:00+00:00

Adding a patch is a modification to Buildroot. Thus this sentence might be interpreted as "Patches are released under the Buildroot license". Being a legal matter, the last thing we want is to be ambiguous. Reword the sentence to avoid any misunderstandings. Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli Cc: Thomas Petazzoni Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

docs/manual/contribute.txt: add formatting patches section

2016-02-23T23:04:19+00:00

Thomas P. has sent a few big feedback mails recently that explain how a patch should be formatted. Indeed, this was not explained much in the manual, so add a section that explains how patches should be formatted. This is based heavily on the feedback that Thomas P. gave. Also, specific examples for new packages and version bumps are added. This will allow us to refer to https://buildroot.org/manual.html#submitting-patches in the future instead of composing long mails. Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Reviewed-by: Yegor Yefremov [Thomas: rewrap to our normal formatting practice.] Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni

docs/manual/contribute.txt: add section for preparing patch series

2016-02-23T23:04:12+00:00

In subsequent patches, we will add more explanation about how to prepare patches, so it will be worthwhile to have a separate section for the series preparation. Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Reviewed-by: Yegor Yefremov [Thomas: rewrap to our normal formatting practice.] Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni

docs/manual: add info about AGPLv3 license

2016-02-21T08:39:58+00:00

Signed-off-by: Yegor Yefremov Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

docs/manual: update graph-depends documentation about --stop-on

2016-02-08T20:29:38+00:00

This commit updates the graph-depends documentation to take into account the new 'host' keyword that can be passed to the --stop-on and --exclude options. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni

docs/manual: misc improvements to Vagrant usage documentation

2016-02-08T12:33:43+00:00

* Changing back wget to curl cause wget it's not available on mac os x. * Braking up too long windows one liner. Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni

support/scripts: add size-stats-compare script

2016-02-07T14:52:25+00:00

Leverage the CSV files produces by size-stats (make graph-size) to allow for a comparison of rootfs size between two different buildroot compilations. The script takes the file-size CSV files of two compilations as input, and produces a textual report of the differences per package. Using the -d/--detail flag, the report will show the file size changes instead of package size changes. The -t/--threshold option allows to ignore file size differences smaller or equal than the given threshold (in bytes). Example output is: Size difference per package (bytes), threshold = 0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -8192 busybox 228572 added dmalloc 301584 added jq -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 521964 TOTAL or with detailed view: Size difference per file (bytes), threshold = 0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -8192 bin/busybox 18152 added usr/bin/jq 39252 added usr/bin/dmalloc 46968 added usr/lib/libdmalloc.so 47288 added usr/lib/libdmallocxx.so 47316 added usr/lib/libdmallocth.so 47748 added usr/lib/libdmallocthcxx.so 283432 added usr/lib/libjq.so.1.0.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 521964 TOTAL Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni

arch: remove BR2_ARCH_HAS_ATOMICS option

2016-02-06T10:16:00+00:00

Now that BR2_ARCH_HAS_ATOMICS is no longer used anywhere, we can remove it from arch/Config.in*, as well as from the documentation. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN"

docs/manual: document usage of BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SYNC_x

2016-02-06T10:16:00+00:00

This commit updates the documentation to detail when and how to use the BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SYNC_x dependency. Note that we chose to not add a comment about this dependency, because it is mainly tied to architecture capabilities (except in very specific cases, which would be way too complicated to explain in a Config.in comment). Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni