Hi Laszlo,
On 19.05.21 11:47, Laszlo Sitzer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a x86/EFI system with barebox running (without state framework).
> I noticed using the nv command persists values but I can't seem to
> understand where these physically get stored. Is there a way I could
> determine that?
EFI variables; You should see something like:
environment load /efivars/barebox-env-5b91f69c-8b88-4a2b-9269-5f1d802b5175: No
such file or directory
first time you boot when you have no environment stored yet.
> I would like to use the state framework (in order to be able to use
> barebox-state to reset bootchooser counters). In order to do so I have
> to write my state.dts, but I don't know which backend to choose in
> order to use the same location as nv used before.
If you have atomic EFI variables, you could use those directly for
next boot slot selection without involving barebox-state.
If they aren't atomic, you will likely not want them as backing
store for barebox-state either. For such cases you can create a
partition and use that as backend.
> I am not asking to use nv and state at the same time but rather have
> state framework use the location that nv used. Does that make sense?
It does. Here's an example:
/ {
aliases {
state = &state;
};
state: state {
magic = <0xDEADBEEF>;
backend-type = "raw";
backend = <&state_part>;
backend-stridesize = <4096>; /* partition must be at least 3x
this */
/* your variables */
};
partitions {
compatible = "fixed-partitions";
state_part: state {
partuuid = "your-part-uuid";
};
};
};
Adjust your partitioning accordingly, compile the DT, store it
in /boot/EFI/barebox/state.dtb and use the most recent
version of the barebox-state userspace utility and you should be good to go.
If you think the documentation here can be improved, patches are always
welcome :-)
Cheers,
Ahmad
>
> Best, Lazlo
>
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