Am 2018-02-18 um 01:22 schrieb Vagrant Cascadian: > I do think we should consider replacing flash-kernel with something else > at this point. The tool has grown and evolved all sorts of features; > I've never used it to "flash a kernel". I've exclusively used it for > purposes other than it's original design (mostly just copying a .dtb and > generating a boot script that is essentially re-useable on most boards I > use it with). > > Scalability is a bit questionable; it actually cats the entire contents > of all.db and reads it into a variable, and then does "echo $VARIABLE | > grep FOO" type things in order to get data out of it. With new sunxi > boards coming out what *feels* like twice each week, grepping through an > echo'ed variable starts to seem like a bad idea to me. > > Of course, it also kind of works well enough for what it is... but > adding new features is, in my experience, an unpleasant task. And > occasionally those new features are really needed with modern changes. > > > I've used u-boot-menu on a handful of boards, although it also currently > has some limitations. For example, it doesn't support /boot on a > separate partition without manual configuration ... anyone remember the > lovely hack "ln -s . /boot/boot" ... well, yeah... using *that* > again. It also doesn't handle copying the .dtb into /boot, so I still > need flash-kernel for that. > > And then there's the support for u-boot emulating EFI so you could use > grub-efi-*, which has made great progress in recent u-boot versions. But > then we could use grub on more platforms ... that would be a nice goal > for buster, at least.
Yes, I'd appreciate grub. When debugging the boot process with an encrypted rootfs on my Odroid XU4s I found it very comfortable to be able to easily switch between boot configurations with grub (which I had thanks to sesse's install script for XU4). And maybe it's not just me, because one of the usage scenarios for SBCs will be self-hosted services (think of freedombox), for which disk encryption can be an issue. ibu
