For phyiscal hardware the default Power Button action has been disabled
to avoid accidentally power down the machine.
However, for virtual machine this method is often used to shutdown the
virtual machine gracefully. Use the regular power settings for virtual
machines.
* Linux: Update kernel 5.15.25
Use highest available kernel version in Buildroot 2021.08 (5.13)
* Update Hardkernel patches to Linux 5.15
* Update generic-x86-64/ova kernel config/patches for 5.15
* Drop Intel e1000e Sourceforge driver
The driver has been discontinued sometime last year. The main reason the
out-of-tree kernel has been enabled was for support for the i219-V
network chips which meanwhile are supported in mainline.
* Add AArch64/ARM64 EFI boot support (for QEMU and some boards)
* Allow GRUB to load cmdline.txt-like
* Enable qcow2/vmdk disk images
Co-authored-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
* Use LSI Logic SCSI controller in vmdk descriptor as well
For some reason, the vmdk disk format's descriptor contains the
controller type as well. By default, qemu-img sets it to "ide", which
seems not optimal especially for VMware's ESXi. Set adapter type to
commonly supported "lsilogic".
* Move ova image generation to hdd-image.sh
* Use OpenSSL to generate OVA manifest file (#826)
It seems that sha256sum adds a space after the hash algorithm which
causes "Invalid OVF checksum algorithm" on certain VMware virtualization
products.
Using OpenSSL avoids the space and makes the manifest file compatible
wiht VMware products.
* Use Buildroot provided OpenSSL binary
* Use SCSI controller by default
* Remove duplicate config.txt copy statement
* Use static cmdline.txt file
Instead of dynamically creating cmdline.txt use a static version of it.
This aligns with other boot loader/firmware configuration files and makes
it easier to customize the file per board.
* Enable some useful kernel configurations
* Add xe-guest-utilities for better Xen support
Add guest utilities and make sure the Xen guest daemon gets started
when running under Xen virtualization.
Using console focused virtualization environments such as virsh having
a serial console is the easiest way to interact with a virtual machine.
It also saves resources since no video memory needs to be allocated.
Enable serial console besides tty1 by default.
Note: The bootloader as well as the kernel shows its boot messages on
all consoles. However, only the last console is mapped to /dev/console,
which systemd is using to show service startup messages. Putting tty1 as
last console makes sure that systemd messages are still shown on the
console screen.
Virtual Disk images are often used on Windows and/or Mac platforms where
xz is not a widely known file ending and also not supported by dafault.
Use zip which is much better known.
Keep using xz for boards since those are not meant to be extracted by
users but directly used in Etcher. Also keep using xz for qcow2, since
qcow2 is mostly used on Linux platforms where xz is available by default
and zip usually needs an extra package.
* Rename Intel NUC machine to Generic x86-64
The Intel NUC machine has evolved and supports various x86-64 machines
today. Rename the board.
Note that this does not address the migration issue. This will be
handled separately.
* Update Scripts/Documentation
