2018-02-26 22:07 GMT+03:00 Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de>:
>
>
> On 26.02.18 08:19, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:
>> 2018-02-26 0:06 GMT+03:00 Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de>:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Am 25.02.2018 um 16:37 schrieb Matwey V. Kornilov 
>>>> <matwey.korni...@gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>> 25.02.2018 18:22, Matwey V. Kornilov пишет:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am faced the issue that recent JeOS builds cannot be read by u-boot:
>>>>>
>>>>> ls mmc 1:2 /
>>>>> Failed to mount ext2 filesystem...
>>>>> ** Unrecognized filesystem type **
>>>>
>>>> Hm, Now I see. Why do you use btrfs for having separate /boot partition?
>>>> Is there any reason for it?
>>>
>>> I assume that change came with the seitch to python-kiwi. I assume the main 
>>> rationale would be snapshotting of /boot, so you can load old kernels.
>>>
>>
>> /lib/modules are on the separate partition, so it won't work anyway.
>> We could have united / and put dtb files onto separate EFI partition
>> for snapshotting kernels.
>
> Nah, if you go that far, better ensure the built-in device tree from
> U-Boot contains a device tree that just covers everything you need. That
> way you don't need to load any dtb files. The dtb loading from /boot is
> really mostly there for cases where firmware is "broken" and does not
> deliver good, upstream compatible device trees.
>

Well, it would be full of pain way, especially in cases when one
bootloader fits multiple dtb-s (i.e. am335x).

>>> I guess there is an xml tag we can provide to make /boot ext4 again?
>
> I've changed the xml to explicitly have a /boot partition in ext4.
>

Thanks.

>
> Alex



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