Christian Breunig 2a2e36ba2e intel: T6847: fix build system to perform proper "git clone" on IXGBE driver
Previous commit a10b29560 ("intel: T6847: update IXGBE Out-Of-Tree driver to
v6.0.5") missed a proper CI "git clone" on the driver repository - this has
been fixed.
2025-02-15 09:21:57 +01:00
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Build

./build.py --config package.toml --packages linux-kernel accel-ppp xxx

About

VyOS runs on a custom Linux Kernel (which is 6.6) at the time of this writing. This repository holds build scripts that are used to build the Custom Kernel (x86_64/amd64 at the moment) and all required out-of tree modules.

VyOS does not utilize the build in Intel Kernel drivers for its NICs as those Kernels sometimes lack features e.g. configurable receive-side-scaling queues. On the other hand we ship additional not mainlined features as WireGuard VPN.

Kernel

The Kernel is build from the vanilla repositories hosted at https://git.kernel.org. VyOS requires two additional patches to work which are stored in the patches/kernel folder.

Config

The Kernel configuration used is x86_64_vyos_defconfig which will be copied on demand during the Pipeline run into the arch/x86/configsi direcotry of the Kernel source tree.

Other configurations can be added in the future easily.

Modules

VyOS utilizes several Out-of-Tree modules (e.g. WireGuard, Accel-PPP and Intel network interface card drivers). Module source code is retrieved from the upstream repository and - when needed - patched so it can be build using this pipeline.