On Fri, 2021-01-22 at 11:35 +0100, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote: > Hi All, > I'd appreciate some advice on how to deal with packaging the RPi eeprom > bootloader firmware and tools. > > As opposed to previous boards RPi4 has two bootloaders, the first stage lives > in an SPI EEPROM memory while the second stage is downloaded from media based > on the first stage's configuration. The second stage is the one that's common > across all RPis (see 'raspberrypi-firmware' package). > > The first stage bootloader can be configured[1] and updated. We have some > tools > already in place to do so (see packages 'raspberrypi-firmware-eeprom' and > 'rpi-eeprom-config') but they only support a limited subset of what the > original tools can do, and are overall hard to work with if you don't know > what > you're doing. > > I've been working with RPi engineers to address the underlying issues > preventing us from using the tools to the full extent. A new driver was > introduced upstream[2], tools are being adapted, etc... So we're at a stage > were we can take everything as is an use in TW. > > Now, here's the issue, the packages I mentioned above were designed based on > the assumption we had to do things differently. It's not the case anymore and > I'd like to limit the amount of divergence with debian/raspbian WRT packaging > as well. I see two options: > > - Obsolete 'raspberrypi-firmware-eeprom' and 'rpi-eeprom-config' to create a > new package 'rpi-eeprom.' Which is a 1:1 copy of what the Debian package > does. > > - Upgrade 'raspberrypi-firmware-eeprom', 'rpi-eeprom-config' and introduce > 'rpi-eeprom-update.' On top of that create a pattern 'rpi-eeprom' that > installs everything. We'd avoid obsoleting anything, but IMO it'd be harder > to > maintain in the long run. > > So, what do you advise I do? I personally like the first option better.
FYI following our discussion here's the package's first SR: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/866120 Regards, Nicolas
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