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Christian Helmuth dc2961338d Bootable GRUB2 disk image with ext2 partition
This provides bootable disk images for x86 platforms via

! RUN_OPT="--target disk"

The resulting disk image contains one ext2 partition with binaries from
the GRUB2 boot loader and the run scenario. The default disk size fits
all binaries, but is configurable via

! --disk-size <size in MiB>

in RUN_OPT.

The feature depends on an grub2-head.img, which is part of the commit,
but may also be generated by executing tool/create_grub2. The script
generates a disk image prepared for one partition, which contains files
for GRUB2. All image preparation steps that need superuser privileges
are conducted by this script.

The final step of writing the entire image to a disk must be executed
later by

  sudo dd if=<image file> of=<device> bs=8M conv=fsync

Fixes .
2014-08-18 13:25:21 +02:00

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This directory contains tools for managing and using the source code
of Genode.
:'create_builddir'
The 'create_builddir' tool provides a convenient way to create build
directories for different platforms. Its usage information is printed when
starting the tool without arguments.
:'builddir/':
This directory contains a Makefile template and configuration snippets used
by the 'create_builddir' tool.
:'tool_chain':
This tool downloads, builds, and installs the tool chain needed to build the
Genode OS Framework. For getting usage information, start the tool without
arguments.
:'create_iso':
This simple tool helps to build bootable ISO images from your build of
Genode. For getting usage information, start the tool without arguments.
:'create_grub2':
This tool prepares a partitioned disk image with GRUB2 as boot
loader.
:'grub2-head.img':
This file is the head part of a partioned disk image including an
installation of GRUB2 as boot loader. GRUB2 is available from
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ and in major Linux distributions.
Steps to reproduce the image creation can be found in
'create_grub2'.
:'beautify':
Beautify is a coding-style checking tool that analyzes source code for its
adherence to Genode's coding style as described in 'doc/coding_style.txt'.
Whenever possible, the tool tries to fix the issues and outputs a corrected
file. Some corrections, however, require human interaction. In this case,
the tool stops the analysis with an error.
:'parse_cxx':
This tool is a C++ parser used as front-end for Beautify.
:'cxx_to_html':
This tool converts a C++ source file to a HTML view to be used for the API
documentation at the genode.org website. It relies on 'parse_cxx' to do the
actual C++ parsing.
:'fix_include_ifndef':
This tool helps with assigning consistent include guards to header files.
:'boot':
This directory contains boot-loader files needed to create boot images.
:'autopilot':
Autopilot is a tool for the automatic execution of run scripts among multiple
base platforms.
:'prepare.mk':
Tool for downloading and integrating 3rd-party source codes with Genode.
This file is included by the makefiles in the root of source-code
repositories that interface with 3rd-party code, e.g., libports and ports.