[Buildroot] [PATCH] package: Drop simicsfs support

[Buildroot] [PATCH] package: Drop simicsfs support

[Bin Meng]

At present buildroot integrated simicfs v1.18 package is quite out
of date, and does not compile with latest Linux kernel v4.12+. The
latest package v1.22 supports recent kernels, however that is not
public available anymore like the older versions.

In fact Simics is now moving away from the simicsfs kernel module,
as the kernel module has required too much maintenance work. Users
should move to the new user mode Simics agent instead.

Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
---
 Config.in.legacy               | 12 ++++++++++++
 DEVELOPERS                     |  1 -
 package/Config.in              |  1 -
 package/simicsfs/Config.in     | 11 -----------
 package/simicsfs/simicsfs.hash |  2 --
 package/simicsfs/simicsfs.mk   | 13 -------------
 6 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 package/simicsfs/Config.in
 delete mode 100644 package/simicsfs/simicsfs.hash
 delete mode 100644 package/simicsfs/simicsfs.mk

diff --git a/Config.in.legacy b/Config.in.legacy
index 693dc95..1fc7b9f 100644
--- a/Config.in.legacy
+++ b/Config.in.legacy
@@ -145,6 +145,18 @@ endif
 ###############################################################################
 comment "Legacy options removed in 2017.08"
 
+config BR2_PACKAGE_SIMICSFS
+	bool "simicsfs support removed"
+	select BR2_LEGACY
+	help
+	  Support for simicsfs kernel driver that provides access to a host
+	  computer's local filesystem when the target is executing within a
+	  SIMICS simulation has been removed.
+
+	  Simics is now moving away from the simicsfs kernel module, as the
+	  kernel module has required too much maintenance work. Users should
+	  move to the user mode Simics agent instead.
+
 config BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_2_26_X
 	bool "binutils version 2.26 support removed"
 	select BR2_LEGACY
diff --git a/DEVELOPERS b/DEVELOPERS
index 73686e2..1453486 100644
--- a/DEVELOPERS
+++ b/DEVELOPERS
@@ -1162,7 +1162,6 @@ F:	package/python-pyrex/
 F:	package/raptor/
 F:	package/sepolgen/
 F:	package/setools/
-F:	package/simicsfs/
 F:	package/smcroute/
 F:	package/tclap/
 F:	package/valijson/
diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index a0868d9..ba101db 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -189,7 +189,6 @@ menu "Filesystem and flash utilities"
 	source "package/mtools/Config.in"
 	source "package/nfs-utils/Config.in"
 	source "package/ntfs-3g/Config.in"
-	source "package/simicsfs/Config.in"
 	source "package/sp-oops-extract/Config.in"
 	source "package/squashfs/Config.in"
 	source "package/sshfs/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/simicsfs/Config.in b/package/simicsfs/Config.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 12b05c1..0000000
--- a/package/simicsfs/Config.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-comment "simicsfs needs a Linux kernel to be built"
-	depends on !BR2_LINUX_KERNEL
-
-config BR2_PACKAGE_SIMICSFS
-	bool "simicsfs"
-	depends on BR2_LINUX_KERNEL
-	help
-	  A kernel driver that provides access to a host computer's local
-	  filesystem when the target is executing within a SIMICS simulation.
-
-	  http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~fedorova/Tech/simics-guides-3.0.26/simics-user-guide-unix/topic33.html
diff --git a/package/simicsfs/simicsfs.hash b/package/simicsfs/simicsfs.hash
deleted file mode 100644
index 42ada91..0000000
--- a/package/simicsfs/simicsfs.hash
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-# Locally calculated
-sha256	d0cf7caf888dc1e7dc9496c4b59af98eb2b69d6113d6920757465902e1f21f38	simicsfs-1.18.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/simicsfs/simicsfs.mk b/package/simicsfs/simicsfs.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index fe05302..0000000
--- a/package/simicsfs/simicsfs.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-#
-# simicsfs
-#
-################################################################################
-
-SIMICSFS_VERSION = 1.18
-SIMICSFS_SITE = http://download.simics.net/pub
-SIMICSFS_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+
-SIMICSFS_LICENSE_FILES = hostfs.h
-
-$(eval $(kernel-module))
-$(eval $(generic-package))
-- 
2.7.4

[Buildroot] [PATCH] package: Drop simicsfs support

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 08:55:25 -0700, Bin Meng wrote:
> At present buildroot integrated simicfs v1.18 package is quite out
> of date, and does not compile with latest Linux kernel v4.12+. The
> latest package v1.22 supports recent kernels, however that is not
> public available anymore like the older versions.
> 
> In fact Simics is now moving away from the simicsfs kernel module,
> as the kernel module has required too much maintenance work. Users
> should move to the new user mode Simics agent instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Config.in.legacy               | 12 ++++++++++++
>  DEVELOPERS                     |  1 -
>  package/Config.in              |  1 -
>  package/simicsfs/Config.in     | 11 -----------
>  package/simicsfs/simicsfs.hash |  2 --
>  package/simicsfs/simicsfs.mk   | 13 -------------
>  6 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 package/simicsfs/Config.in
>  delete mode 100644 package/simicsfs/simicsfs.hash
>  delete mode 100644 package/simicsfs/simicsfs.mk

Applied to master with some minor tweaks. Thanks!

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com