On 30 May 2024, at 10:53, Marcus Folkesson via lists.openembedded.org <[email protected]> wrote: > The image-bootfiles class is used to put all files listed in > IMAGE_BOOT_FILES into the root filesystem. > > IMAGE_BOOT_FILES is used by the bootimg-partition wic plugin to put the > files into a boot partition. > Be able to list files as "boot files" in e.g. your .conf or image files > instead of install those in every recipe is a good thing. > > It is not always desired to have a separate boot partition for boot > files. Sometimes it could be good to have them as a part of the root > filesystem. > > For example, if a double copy strategy is used for update the system, > then you probably want to update both the boot files and root filesystem > at the same time as there may be dependencies.
In my mind, IMAGE_BOOT_FILES is a workaround for the fact that some /boot partitions (such as ones generated by wic) are not managed by bitbake directly. If you have a setup where you just have a / that contains /boot isn’t adding eg grub to IMAGE_INSTALL sufficient to get it in the right place in the rootfs? Ross
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