Describe that the boot related globalvars are now reverted after booting, that the .dyn infix is no longer necessary and that the order of the Kernel command line options may change.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5 Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <[email protected]> --- .../migration-master/boot-globalvar-scope.rst | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/migration-guides/migration-master/boot-globalvar-scope.rst b/Documentation/migration-guides/migration-master/boot-globalvar-scope.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d7e322ca0b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/migration-guides/migration-master/boot-globalvar-scope.rst @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Boot related globalvars are reverted after booting +-------------------------------------------------- + +``global.bootm.*``, ``global.linux.*``, ``global.of.*`` and +``global.boot.watchdog_timeout`` are now snapshotted before each boot +entry and each bootm and restored afterwards, so changes made while +booting no longer leak into subsequent boot attempts. + +Boot entries therefore no longer need to put Kernel command line options +into ``global.linux.bootargs.dyn.*``. The boot entries shipped with +barebox have dropped the ``.dyn`` infix. As the bootargs variables are +concatenated in lexicographical order, the order of the Kernel command +line options may change. -- 2.47.3
