[Buildroot] [PATCH] This patch is to add NVME tool support in petitboot

[Mamatha Inamdar <mamatha4@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Thanks for reviewing the patch.

On 01/12/2016 06:39 AM, Stewart Smith wrote:
> (background for others: petitboot is the bootloader on OpenPower
> machines - it's a linux+initramfs in flash from buildroot on top of OPAL
> firmware. You can exit from the petitboot UI into a shell, where a
> variety of utilities are available to help rescue a system)
>
> Mamatha <mamatha4@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>> Enable NVME block device and nvme tool support in petitboot
>> After enabling NVME device and tool in op-build this will increase the size
>> of rootfs.tar by 92KB and zImage.epapr by 41KB.
> I think this should read more like:
>
> "Add support for building NVME utility - a utility for interacting with
> standard NVM Express (optimized PCI Express SSD interface) devices.
>
>> Signed-off-by: Mamatha <mamatha4@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
>>   package/Config.in      |    1 +
>>   package/nvme/Config.in |    6 ++++++
>>   package/nvme/nvme.mk   |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   3 files changed, 30 insertions(+)
>>   create mode 100755 package/nvme/Config.in
>>   create mode 100755 package/nvme/nvme.mk
>>
>> diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
>> index e0c2e2a..014debd 100644
>> --- a/package/Config.in
>> +++ b/package/Config.in
>> @@ -1399,6 +1399,7 @@ endif
>>   	source "package/openvmtools/Config.in"
>>   	source "package/polkit/Config.in"
>>   	source "package/powerpc-utils/Config.in"
>> +	source "package/nvme/Config.in"
>>   if BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_SHOW_OTHERS
>>   	source "package/procps-ng/Config.in"
>>   	source "package/psmisc/Config.in"
>> diff --git a/package/nvme/Config.in b/package/nvme/Config.in
>> new file mode 100755
>> index 0000000..8b5d37d
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/package/nvme/Config.in
>> @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
>> +config BR2_PACKAGE_NVME
>> +	bool "nvme"
>> +	help
>> +	  System utilities for IBM Power NVME devices
>> +
>> +	  https://github.com/linux-nvme/nvme-cli
> Is it POWER specific? It doesn't look like it...
ok, I will update this
>
>> diff --git a/package/nvme/nvme.mk b/package/nvme/nvme.mk
>> new file mode 100755
>> index 0000000..214e879
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/package/nvme/nvme.mk
>> @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
>> +################################################################################
>> +#
>> +# nvme
>> +#
>> +################################################################################
>> +
>> +NVME_VERSION = 798812627467a9999682176ade631ee5b6ea4785
> Is this the 0.2 tag? If not, why not? It would seem sensible to include
> the most recent released version, or get them to release one with the
> support we need

I have updated the NVME version in  V2 patch, which I have sent yesterday.

>
> Also,
>
>> +NVME_SITE = https://github.com/linux-nvme/nvme-cli.git
> I wonder why this utility isn't mentioned on
> http://nvmexpress.org/resources/linux-driver-information/ ?
>