On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 02:42:23PM +0530, Chirag Shilwant wrote:
> + Andreas
> On 21/04/24 08:37, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> >On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 06:23:18PM +0530, Chirag Shilwant wrote:
> >>- Ideally running `ls /boot/` in filesystem should list contents from 
> >>/rootfs/boot partition
> >>but currently it lists the contents of /boot partition of the WIC Image.
> >>
> >>Eg - Incase of AM64x,
> >>```
> >>     root@am64xx-evm:~# ls /boot/
> >>     EFI  Image  tiboot3-am64x-gp-evm.bin  tiboot3-am64x_sr2-hs-evm.bin  
> >> tiboot3-am64x_sr2-hs-fs-evm.bin  tiboot3.bin  tispl.bin  u-boot.img  
> >> uEnv.txt
> >Will this change affect EFI? As there's EFI directory in that partition.
> 
> The EFI partition under /rootfs/boot will still be present.
> Following is the output of `ls /boot` with this patch,
> 
> ```
> root@am64xx-evm:~# ls /boot
> EFI  Image  Image-6.1.80-ti-g2e423244f8c0 dtb  fitImage 
> fitImage-6.1.80-ti-g2e423244f8c0
> 
> ```

Thanks, I'll do some additional testing with EFI a bit later.


> >>- To fix this issue, add --no-fstab-update flag to WIC_CREATE_EXTRA_ARG in 
> >>arago-image.inc
> >>to prevent WIC image from adding an additional entry in /etc/fstab.
> >This flag is global and will prevent all other partitions from populating
> >/etc/fstab properly. Sure, meta-ti only has /boot and / defined, but other
> >layers could have own wic files with e.g. /home or /data partitions. Mounting
> >those will require a custom /etc/fstab instead of wic creating corresponding
> >entries automatically.
> >
> 
> 
> Apparently, this change was being carried in processor sdk layer from
> quite a long time (from dunfell) to resolve a customer issue
> reported by Andreas.
> Diving into our internal JIRA system showed that this fix was
> suggested by Andreas
> & was resolved by the SDK team back then by keeping this change in
> processor sdk layer [1].
> Not sure why this was in processor sdk layer though. Maybe Andreas
> can provide additional details.

I tested and submitted a different fix last night to adjust WIC templates to 
not mount boot partition under /boot directory[1]. I still believe doing it 
just for that one partition is better than disabling fstab updates globally.

[1] 
https://patchwork.yoctoproject.org/project/ti/patch/[email protected]/

Can you please take a look and maybe test this option for your use case? 
Thanks.

-- 
Denys


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