On 12:10-20231005, Nishanth Menon wrote: > On 12:36-20231005, Tom Rini wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 09:19:48AM -0500, Andrew Davis wrote: > > > On 10/4/23 8:54 AM, Nishanth Menon wrote: > > > > On 08:48-20231004, Andrew Davis wrote: > > > > > On 10/4/23 8:23 AM, Roger Quadros wrote: > > > > > > ti_mmc is not a valid boot_target for standard boot flow so > > > > > > > > > > Is there some way to make it into a valid boot_target? Otherwise > > > > > how do we use uEnv.txt files, or boot from FIT images with overlays? > > > > > > > > envboot takes care of uEnv.txt file (see > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231004132324.44198-3-rog...@kernel.org/) > > > > > > > > Early remote proc loading and FIT image is a question for stdboot > > > > itself. > > > > > > > > > > If stdboot is missing these features then we shouldn't switch until it > > > has them. I'm all for switching to this, but only if it is complete. > > > > Depends on what you mean? Did you mean an option to run scripts > > (exists) or an option to do what TI needs done, via > > boot/bootmeth_something.c ? If the latter, someone from TI needs to > > figure out what that should be and do (but plumbing-wise everything it > > needs should exist). > > Andrew is generalizing here (on the wrong patch though). > > On am62x platforms, there is nothing regressing with this series. The > challenge is early remote_proc loading which is done for J7* platforms. > > How that is initiated as part of bootmethods is something of a gap. > > The other gap has been support for uEnv.txt -> which we can workaround > at the moment by using CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND="run envboot; bootflow scan > -lb" in defconfig (This series from Roger already does that - hence I am > saying that Andrew is complaining on the wrong series). > > Ideally, we should just have CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND="bootflow scan -lb" and > uEnv.txt remoteproc loads and the various standard bootmethods should > "just work".
I forgot to add: FIT image authenticated boot flow. That is really what ti_mmc distroboot method was trying to solve. Maybe Simon or someone know how the stdboot flow handles authenticated kernel image and dtb boot flow with FIT image? -- Regards, Nishanth Menon Key (0xDDB5849D1736249D) / Fingerprint: F8A2 8693 54EB 8232 17A3 1A34 DDB5 849D 1736 249D
