This repository contains some resources about my adventures with ONIE. I had to build my own ONIE for Celestica DX010, because Celestica does not provide ONIE images. I decided to share my notes as there don't seem to exist any complete public guides on how to build ONIE.
Below you can find a guide on how to build ONIE on your own for Celestica DX010.
Because I wasn't able to find any public ONIE build pipeline / CI (if one exists, please let me know where?), I have included the binaries of the ONIE builds for a handful of platforms I use / own (see list below)
- ONIE 2021.08, cel_seastone-r0, Debian 9
- ONIE 2021.08, quanta_common_rglbmc, Debian 9
- ONIE 2024.02, accton_as7716_32x, Debian 11
- ONIE 2024.02, accton_as7716_32xb, Debian 11
- ONIE 2024.02, accton_as7726_32x, Debian 11
- ONIE 2024.02, accton_as7712_32x, Debian 11
PSA: Versions newer than 2021.08 will not build. Starting at 2021.11, builds will fail with
make: *** No rule to make target 'conf/crosstool/gcc-4.9.2/uClibc-ng-1.0.38/crosstool.x86_64.config', needed by '/home/robin/onie-build/build/x-tools/x86_64-g4.9.2-lnx3.2.69-uClibc-ng-1.0.38/build/.config'. Stop.
PSA 2: With podman, --run-image doesn't seem to work (see #1). If you only have a single image, simply use --run
Download DUE (do not use the one from debian repos, it's v3.0 as of time of writing and too old) Create buildenv with DUE
mkdir onie
cd onie
git clone https://github.com/CumulusNetworks/DUE
cd DUE
./due --create --platform linux/amd64 --name onie-build-debian-9 --prompt ONIE-9 --tag onie-9 --use-template onie --from debian:9 --description 'ONIE Build Debian 9' --image-patch debian/9/filesystem
cd ..
Populate the cache.. it will make things much more bearable, especially if you have to go back and rebuild or want to build for a different switch.
sudo mkdir -p /var/cache/onie/download
cd /var/cache/onie/download
sudo wget --recursive --cut-dirs=2 --no-host-directories --no-parent --reject="index.html" "http://mirror.opencompute.org/onie"
cd <your top-level onie directory>
it will take about 10 minutes... Total size of downloads is about 3.9GB and the opencompute mirror seems to rate limit you after some time?
Time to get started...
git clone https://github.com/opencomputeproject/onie.git onie-build
cd onie-build
git checkout 2021.08
cd ../DUE
./due --run-image due-onie-build-debian-9 --home-dir <your top-level onie directory> --mount-dir /var/cache/onie/download/:/var/cache/onie/download/
# Now from container shell:
# For some reason, the DUE default git config does not work... This is taken from the DUE template
git config --global user.name "ONIE build account"
git config --global user.email "oniebuild@localhost"
cd onie-build/build-config/
ONIE_USE_SYSTEM_DOWNLOAD_CACHE=TRUE make -j128 MACHINEROOT=../machine/celestica MACHINE=cel_seastone all demo
Adjust the -j128 to your amount of cores.
This will take a while. About 15 minutes on my 128-Core 2x EPYC 7773X machine with the build directory located on RAID10 (2x ZFS mirror vdev) of 4x Micron 7300 PRO 3.2TB.
Build time of 10 minutes on Ryzen 5950X and build directory on RAMDISK was reported.
You will find the resulting files in <your top-level onie directory>/onie-build/build/images/:
cel_seastone-r0.initrd
cel_seastone-r0.vmlinuz
demo-diag-installer-x86_64-cel_seastone-r0.bin
demo-installer-x86_64-cel_seastone-r0.bin
onie-recovery-x86_64-cel_seastone-r0.iso
onie-updater-x86_64-cel_seastone-r0