On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 12:03:05PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2017-01-05, Riku Voipio wrote: > > I only recently noticed that Debian doesn't seem use U-boot > > support for extlinux style boot menus. This makes jumping > > between kernel versions frustrating. > > > > I've taken the old syslinux support for menu generation and > > re-purposed it for u-boot: > > > > https://github.com/suihkulokki/u-boot-update > > Thanks for working on this! > > This would also be good to do for debian-installer images (one concern > was how widespread support for the "chosen" console was, as there was no > way to pass the console via extlinux.conf in a platform agnostic way).
I see the console from dtb worksforme, and adding it to missing DTB's should be easy. > > Note location is temporary, I don't know if this is > > preferrable as independent package, part of flash-kernel > > or even u-boot package itself. > Indeed. On the one hand, it'd be nice to keep it outside of > flash-kernel, so as not to require flash-kernel and it's dependencies. Rethinking, the only link I get for flash-kernel, is the dtb name / device model name map which could be used to set the FDT setting. > I could include it in the u-boot-tools package, but I'd want it to > default to doing nothing out of the box, if someone is relying on a boot > script this could break their boot configuration. It could also be > implemented as a separate package and enabled by default; probably too > late for stretch, though. I guess I'll push it to it's own package, since not all u-boot-tools may want a menu. > I've submitted a pull request that fixes an issue with falling back to > using "fdtdir" and make the "fdtdir" configurable via a variable to > improve compatibility with flash-kernel or when /boot is on a separate > partition: > > https://github.com/suihkulokki/u-boot-update/pull/1 Thanks, applied. > My workaround was to use flash-kernel to copy the dtb into /boot (which > I had to do anyways, since /boot was on a separate partition), and > configure /boot/dtbs/$VERSION in my patches above. Yeah, separate /boot doesn't work with DTBs out of box. Riku
