Hi,

it's very handy to have the environment file in the DEPLOY folder to for example be able to integrate it to a WIC image.


BR

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 5:32 PM Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de> wrote:
Hi Otavio,

On 31.03.20 17:16, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> One significant change from previous OE-Core releases was the move from
> u-boot-fw-utils to libubootenv which offers a generic and not machine
> specific alternative. However, it is not fully functional as currently
> we don't provide the default environment nor the required configuration
> file to be used by it.

Fully agree - it was on my TODO list, then forgotten. Thanks for fixing
this !

>
> This change address this and include on the default u-boot.inc the
> needed code to generate, install and deploy the default environment.
>
> The side effect of this change are:
>
> - new ${PN}-env

Agree.

> - u-boot-initial-env on deploy
> - fw_env.config on deploy

Why do we need both of them in deploy ? For making system functional, we
just need that both files are in /etc, that is ${PN}-env must be
installed (and then you set RRECOMMENDS). But why in deploy ? Am I
missing something ?

>
> Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>
> ---
> This change is late in the cycle but it is critical in my opinion.
>
> The lack of default environment as well as the configuration for the
> tool is a regression from the previous release and this mitigates it.
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Fix wrong path on do_install
> - Change virtual/bootloader-env to u-boot-default-env (RP)
> - Add Tom Rini and Stefano Babic to Cc
>
>  meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/libubootenv_0.2.bb |  1 +
>  meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot.inc         | 54 ++++++++++++++++++----
>  2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/libubootenv_0.2.bb b/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/libubootenv_0.2.bb
> index 7a7ec4c8856..144c5c941df 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/libubootenv_0.2.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/libubootenv_0.2.bb
> @@ -23,5 +23,6 @@ EXTRA_OECMAKE = "-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release"

>  PROVIDES += "u-boot-fw-utils"
>  RPROVIDES_${PN}-bin += "u-boot-fw-utils"
> +RRECOMMENDS_${PN}-bin += "u-boot-default-env"

>  BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot.inc b/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot.inc
> index 648298da0bf..b13db224732 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot.inc
> +++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot.inc
> @@ -122,6 +122,11 @@ do_compile () {
>                              cp ${B}/${config}/${binary} ${B}/${config}/u-boot-${type}.${UBOOT_SUFFIX}
>                          fi
>                      done
> +
> +                    # Generate the uboot-initial-env
> +                    oe_runmake -C ${S} O=${B}/${config} u-boot-initial-env
> +                    cp ${B}/${config}/u-boot-initial-env ${B}/${config}/u-boot-initial-env-${type}
> +
>                      unset k
>                  fi
>              done
> @@ -130,6 +135,9 @@ do_compile () {
>          unset  i
>      else
>          oe_runmake -C ${S} O=${B} ${UBOOT_MAKE_TARGET}
> +
> +        # Generate the uboot-initial-env
> +        oe_runmake -C ${S} O=${B} u-boot-initial-env
>      fi

>  }
> @@ -143,19 +151,26 @@ do_install () {
>                  j=$(expr $j + 1);
>                  if [ $j -eq $i ]
>                  then
> -                    install -d ${D}/boot
> -                    install -m 644 ${B}/${config}/u-boot-${type}.${UBOOT_SUFFIX} ${D}/boot/u-boot-${type}-${PV}-${PR}.${UBOOT_SUFFIX}
> +                    install -D -m 644 ${B}/${config}/u-boot-${type}.${UBOOT_SUFFIX} ${D}/boot/u-boot-${type}-${PV}-${PR}.${UBOOT_SUFFIX}
>                      ln -sf u-boot-${type}-${PV}-${PR}.${UBOOT_SUFFIX} ${D}/boot/${UBOOT_BINARY}-${type}
>                      ln -sf u-boot-${type}-${PV}-${PR}.${UBOOT_SUFFIX} ${D}/boot/${UBOOT_BINARY}
> +
> +                    # Install the uboot-initial-env
> +                    install -D -m 644 ${B}/${config}/u-boot-initial-env-${type} ${D}/${sysconfdir}/u-boot-initial-env-${type}-${PV}-${PR}
> +                    ln -sf u-boot-initial-env-${type}-${PV}-${PR} ${D}/${sysconfdir}/u-boot-initial-env-${type}
> +                    ln -sf u-boot-initial-env-${type}-${PV}-${PR} ${D}/${sysconfdir}/u-boot-initial-env
>                  fi
>              done
>              unset  j
>          done
>          unset  i
>      else
> -        install -d ${D}/boot
> -        install -m 644 ${B}/${UBOOT_BINARY} ${D}/boot/${UBOOT_IMAGE}
> +        install -D -m 644 ${B}/${UBOOT_BINARY} ${D}/boot/${UBOOT_IMAGE}
>          ln -sf ${UBOOT_IMAGE} ${D}/boot/${UBOOT_BINARY}
> +
> +        # Install the uboot-initial-env
> +        install -D -m 644 ${B}/u-boot-initial-env ${D}/${sysconfdir}/u-boot-initial-env-${PV}-${PR}
> +        ln -sf u-boot-initial-env-${PV}-${PR} ${D}/${sysconfdir}/u-boot-initial-env
>      fi

>      if [ -n "${UBOOT_ELF}" ]
> @@ -224,7 +239,16 @@ do_install () {

>  }

> -FILES_${PN} = "/boot ${sysconfdir} ${datadir}"
> +PACKAGE_BEFORE_PN += "${PN}-env"
> +
> +RPROVIDES_${PN}-env += "u-boot-default-env"
> +FILES_${PN}-env = " \
> +    ${sysconfdir}/u-boot-initial-env* \
> +    ${sysconfdir}/fw_env.config \
> +"
> +
> +FILES_${PN} = "/boot ${datadir}"
> +RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${PN}-env"

>  do_deploy () {
>      if [ -n "${UBOOT_CONFIG}" ]
> @@ -235,25 +259,37 @@ do_deploy () {
>                  j=$(expr $j + 1);
>                  if [ $j -eq $i ]
>                  then
> -                    install -d ${DEPLOYDIR}
> -                    install -m 644 ${B}/${config}/u-boot-${type}.${UBOOT_SUFFIX} ${DEPLOYDIR}/u-boot-${type}-${PV}-${PR}.${UBOOT_SUFFIX}
> +                    install -D -m 644 ${B}/${config}/u-boot-${type}.${UBOOT_SUFFIX} ${DEPLOYDIR}/u-boot-${type}-${PV}-${PR}.${UBOOT_SUFFIX}
> +                    install -D -m 644 ${B}/${config}/u-boot-initial-env-${type} ${DEPLOYDIR}/u-boot-initial-env-${type}-${PV}-${PR}
> +
>                      cd ${DEPLOYDIR}
>                      ln -sf u-boot-${type}-${PV}-${PR}.${UBOOT_SUFFIX} ${UBOOT_SYMLINK}-${type}
>                      ln -sf u-boot-${type}-${PV}-${PR}.${UBOOT_SUFFIX} ${UBOOT_SYMLINK}
>                      ln -sf u-boot-${type}-${PV}-${PR}.${UBOOT_SUFFIX} ${UBOOT_BINARY}-${type}
>                      ln -sf u-boot-${type}-${PV}-${PR}.${UBOOT_SUFFIX} ${UBOOT_BINARY}
> +
> +                    ln -sf u-boot-initial-env-${type}-${PV}-${PR} u-boot-initial-env-${type}
> +                    ln -sf u-boot-initial-env-${type}-${PV}-${PR} u-boot-initial-env
>                  fi
>              done
>              unset  j
>          done
>          unset  i
>      else
> -        install -d ${DEPLOYDIR}
> -        install -m 644 ${B}/${UBOOT_BINARY} ${DEPLOYDIR}/${UBOOT_IMAGE}
> +        install -D -m 644 ${B}/${UBOOT_BINARY} ${DEPLOYDIR}/${UBOOT_IMAGE}
> +        install -D -m 644 ${B}/u-boot-initial-env ${DEPLOYDIR}/u-boot-initial-env-${PV}-${PR}
>          cd ${DEPLOYDIR}
>          rm -f ${UBOOT_BINARY} ${UBOOT_SYMLINK}
>          ln -sf ${UBOOT_IMAGE} ${UBOOT_SYMLINK}
>          ln -sf ${UBOOT_IMAGE} ${UBOOT_BINARY}
> +
> +        ln -sf u-boot-initial-env-${PV}-${PR} u-boot-initial-env
> +    fi
> +
> +    if [ -e ${WORKDIR}/fw_env.config ] ; then
> +        install -D -m 644 ${WORKDIR}/fw_env.config ${DEPLOYDIR}/fw_env.config-${PV}-${PR}
> +        cd ${DEPLOYDIR}
> +        ln -sf fw_env.config-${PV}-${PR} fw_env.config
>      fi

>      if [ -n "${UBOOT_ELF}" ]
>

Regards,
Stefano

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