From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga06.intel.com (mga06.intel.com [134.134.136.31]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1687785B8 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2017 11:34:35 +0000 (UTC) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga001.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.18]) by orsmga104.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 20 Dec 2017 03:34:36 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.45,431,1508828400"; d="scan'208";a="17576819" Received: from kanavin-desktop.fi.intel.com (HELO [10.237.68.161]) ([10.237.68.161]) by orsmga001.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 20 Dec 2017 03:34:35 -0800 To: California Sullivan , openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org References: <20171219225831.22587-1-california.l.sullivan@intel.com> From: Alexander Kanavin Message-ID: <6c55c79f-e43d-7d81-2df5-0658603e2bd1@linux.intel.com> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 13:29:04 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20171219225831.22587-1-california.l.sullivan@intel.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 00/18] EFI boot partition improvements X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 11:34:35 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 12/20/2017 12:58 AM, California Sullivan wrote: > Currently, the boot partition of an EFI system is entirely controlled by > image creation. Either done entirely through wic, or one of the > bootloader bbclasses. This is rather bad since it makes it very > difficult to add additional items to the boot partition, such as > alternative kernels, bootloaders, or other utilities, and since its not > package controlled its hard to update. How are you planning to have this documented? You probably need to review the yocto manuals and see what needs to be changed or newly written. Alex