On 05/06/2025 22:02, Tom Rini wrote:
On Thu, Jun 05, 2025 at 07:46:54PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
Hi,
On 04/06/2025 14:15, Martin Schwan wrote:
This series implements a new bootmeth for RAUC A/B systems. RAUC (Robust
Auto Update Controller) is a lightweight update client, providing "Safe
and Secure OTA Updates for Embedded Linux". See the following links for
more information about RAUC:
https://rauc.io/
https://rauc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
PHYTEC uses RAUC in its Yocto based distribution "Ampliphy" as the
default way of updating embedded devices based on PHYTEC hardware. So
far, the logic selecting the correct partitions and files to boot was
being implemented in the U-Boot environment. While this is a
straightforward way to do it, adding and supporting new platforms became
somewhat tedious and is platform-specific. The introduction of U-Boot's
"Standard Boot" provided a convincing alternative, promising a simpler
and more portable way of booting, even for RAUC systems. This led me to
implement a new bootmeth supporting RAUC A/B systems. Note, that this
new bootmeth is not proprietary to PHYTEC products and is designed to
work on other hardware with a RAUC A/B system, too.
The bootmeth currently only supports symmetric A/B partitioning layouts.
E.g. A/rescue is not (yet) supported. The partition indexes and default
slot tries can be specified via configuration options.
For now, the bootmeth_rauc uses a similar approach for loading the
Kernel and device tree as the bootmeth_script, in that it requires a FIT
containing a U-Boot script loading the desired distro. It could be
possible to support booting without a script and load the Kernel and DT
directly with this bootmeth, but I found the script method to be very
flexible for now, in letting the distro decide what to load.
The bootmeth_rauc was tested on a phyBOARD-Pollux i.MX8M Plus [1] with
BSP-Yocto-Ampliphy-i.MX8MP-PD24.1.2 [2].
Supported boot devices are currently only MMC devices, but it should be
possible to add SPI flashes in the future.
It's quite a late comment, but this implementation has really nothing
specific to do with MMC, you could just support any block device.
So if you could just add a config selecting the block type, defaulting
to mmc, this could be used on any block like USB, UFS, NVMe, ... with
almost 0 changes.
I raised this with v1. The challenge is that RAUC itself doesn't yet
support non-MMC options. If/when that changes it's easy to update here.
Ack thx, indeed the code change would be minimal
Neil
