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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: Heiko Thiery <heiko.thiery@gmail.com>
Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>, buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] board/kontron/pitx-imx8m: use extlinux instead of U-Boot boot script
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 15:11:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220122151130.59ae7148@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220117080616.10563-1-heiko.thiery@gmail.com>

On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:06:16 +0100
Heiko Thiery <heiko.thiery@gmail.com> wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Heiko Thiery <heiko.thiery@gmail.com>
> ---
>  board/kontron/pitx-imx8m/boot.cmd      | 8 --------
>  board/kontron/pitx-imx8m/extlinux.conf | 4 ++++
>  board/kontron/pitx-imx8m/genimage.cfg  | 5 +++--
>  board/kontron/pitx-imx8m/post-build.sh | 7 +++++--
>  board/kontron/pitx-imx8m/post-image.sh | 2 +-
>  configs/kontron_pitx_imx8m_defconfig   | 3 +--
>  6 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 board/kontron/pitx-imx8m/boot.cmd
>  create mode 100644 board/kontron/pitx-imx8m/extlinux.conf

I have applied, but I am a bit worried about things are going on with
this switch to extlinux.conf.

Indeed, we have:

 * Platforms where the UUID is hardcoded into genimage.cfg and
   extlinux.conf, such as board/beaglev/

 * We have platforms where a "uuid" variable in filled in U-Boot before
   triggering the extlinux.conf logic, and therefore extlinux.conf uses
   root=PARTUUID=${uuid}. For example
   board/freescale/imx7dsdb/rootfs_overlay/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf,
   board/orangepi/orangepi-zero/boot.cmd,
   board/solidrun/mx6cubox/rootfs_overlay/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf,
   board/technexion/imx6ulpico/rootfs_overlay/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf,
   and a few others.

 * We now have platforms (kontron/smarc-sal28 and kontron/pitx-imx8m)
   where a random UUID is generated in the post-build script, and used
   in genimage and extlinux.conf.

I'm not sure where we want to go, and how much we want to enforce "best
practices" that are common on all platforms, or just let each platform
do its little business.

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-01-22 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-17  8:06 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] board/kontron/pitx-imx8m: use extlinux instead of U-Boot boot script Heiko Thiery
2022-01-17  8:06 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] configs/kontron_pitx_imx8m_defconfig: bump kernel to 5.16.1 Heiko Thiery
2022-01-22 14:11   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2022-01-22 14:11 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2022-01-22 15:59   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] board/kontron/pitx-imx8m: use extlinux instead of U-Boot boot script Heiko Thiery
2022-01-23 22:01   ` Giulio Benetti
2022-01-24  5:42     ` Sergey Kuzminov
2022-01-24  8:12       ` Giulio Benetti
2022-02-12 13:50   ` Arnout Vandecappelle

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