RZ-G/BSP upgrade

To migrate from one VLP version to the following, the best would be to rebase.

For example Renesas VLP includes the CIP kernel. However CIP and our kernel follow different paths and when a new version of the VLP is released, a set of patches are then applied to the version chosen:

o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o remotes/origin/linux-4.19.y-cip \                            \                          \          o--o--o vlp64_v104           o--o--o--o vlp64_v105      o--o--o--o--o vlp64_v106

But customers have probably started working on one version, created their own branch and applied their own modifications:

o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o remotes/origin/linux-4.19.y-cip \                            \                          \           o--o--o vlp64_v104           o--o--o--o vlp64_v105      o--o--o--o--o vlp64_v106 \                                                                           A--B--C customer_v1 \                                                           D customer_v2

Now, at certain point in time, if the customer wants to move to a new VLP version, for example 1.0.5, then the solution for them is to rebase, basically a sort of "move" of their modifications to the newer VLP:

o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o remotes/origin/linux-4.19.y-cip \                            \                          \          o--o--o vlp64_v104           o--o--o--o vlp64_v105      o--o--o--o--o vlp64_v106 \                              \                                               A--B--C customer_v1             A--B--C--D customer_v3 \                                 \                                                          D customer_v2                      E customer_v4

And so on, for the following versions:

o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o remotes/origin/linux-4.19.y-cip \                            \                          \          o--o--o vlp64_v104           o--o--o--o vlp64_v105      o--o--o--o--o vlp64_v10n \                              \                             \                  A--B--C customer_v1             A--B--C--D customer_v3        A--B--C--D--E customer_v5 \                                 \                                \                          D customer_v2                      E customer_v4                    F customer_v6

Once rebased, the old branches can sweetly die and new development shall continue on the new branch only.

Let us go thru an example using Chris' script that is meant to assist in checking out the relevant CIP kernel code from the repository and apply VLP patches on top. Obviously the script is not strictly required but if not used the user should identify the right CIP kernel version to checkout:

o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o remotes/origin/linux-4.19.y-cip \                                      o--o--o vlp64_v104

And then collect all the patches from the VLP version:

o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o remotes/origin/linux-4.19.y-cip \                                     o--o--o vlp64_v104

And apply them before the kernel can be build in the exact same way Yocto does in the VLP release.

To do that we just have to run the vlp64_util script: ./vlp64_util.sh create k. my_vlp_kernel_repo What VLP64 BSP version do you want? 0. BSP-1.0.4 1. BSP-1.0.5 2. BSP-1.0.5-RT 3. BSP-1.0.5-RT-update1 4. BSP-1.0.6-update1 choice: 0 The script will then clone the repository and apply the correct patches, also creating a branch called vlp64_v104.

Let us implement some changes to the VLP 1.0.4 release. For example we modift the init/calibrate.c:

void calibrate_delay(void) {       unsigned long lpj; static bool printed; int this_cpu = smp_processor_id; printk("*************************************\n"); printk("*                                  *\n"); printk("*       HELLO WORLD KERNEL         *\n"); printk("*                                  *\n"); printk("*************************************\n"); if (per_cpu(cpu_loops_per_jiffy, this_cpu)) { lpj = per_cpu(cpu_loops_per_jiffy, this_cpu); if (!printed) [...]

Then stage and commit changes:

git add calibrate.c git commit -m "calibrate.c - Added some printk statements"

Now we update the repository with a newer VLP:

./vlp64_util.sh update my_vlp_kernel_repo Detected kernel These branches already exits in your repo: - vlp64_v104 What VLP64 BSP version do you want? 0. BSP-1.0.4 1. BSP-1.0.5 2. BSP-1.0.5-RT 3. BSP-1.0.5-RT-update1 4. BSP-1.0.6-update1 choice: 1

The script detects that "my_vlp_kernel_repo" already contains a VLP kernel. We select VLP 1.0.5. Then the script will fetch/checkout the appropriate CIP kernel version and apply the patches on top of it: git branch master vlp64_v104 * vlp64_v105

Let's have a look at the tags:

git tag 4.4.201-cip39-rt26 4.4.201-cip39-rt26-rebase BSP-1.0.4 BSP-1.0.5 u2.6.24 .. ..

Now let the magic begin. First we may want to create a copy of the old development branch: git checkout vlp64_v104 git checkout -b vlp_v105_dev

Then we can move our patch (A = Added some printk statements) to the latest version: git rebase --onto BSP-1.0.5 BSP-1.0.4 vlp_105_dev

This powerful git command needs a bit of explanation: it allows us to transplant the vlp_105_dev branch based on the vlp64_v104 (= BSP-1.0.4) branch, to pretend that we forked the vlp_105_dev branch from the vlp64_v105 (=BSP-1.0.5) branch. Please also have a look at the official git documentation here. In other words from this:

o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o remotes/origin/linux-4.19.y-cip \                            \          o--o--o vlp64_v104           o--o--o--o vlp64_v105 \ vlp64_v105_dev A            To this:

o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o remotes/origin/linux-4.19.y-cip \                            \          o--o--o vlp64_v104           o--o--o--o vlp64_v105 \                              \ vlp64_v105_dev A                             '''A There is also another possibility: instead of using git rebase we can use git cherry-pick. This command allows up to copy a single commit or a range of commits from one branch to another. In our example we have to first check the hash of the commit we want to cherry pick:

git checkout vlp64_v104 git log --oneline f4d5d8172b76 (HEAD -> vlp64_v104) Added some printk message [..]

Then checkout the destination branch: git checkout vlp_v105

And then [1]: git cherry-pick f4d5d8172b76

We can also cherry pick a range of commits: git cherry-pick git cherry-pick BSP-1.0.4..vlp64_v104

In our example this is exactly the same as [1] because we have only one commit between vlp64_v104 and BSP-1.0.4. So again, graphically, from this:

o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o remotes/origin/linux-4.19.y-cip \                            \          o--o--o vlp64_v104           o--o--o--o vlp64_v105 \                   A             To this:

o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o remotes/origin/linux-4.19.y-cip \                            \          o--o--o vlp64_v104           o--o--o--o vlp64_v105 \                              \                   A                               A