Hi Mattijs,

On Tue, Oct 20, 2026 at 1:43 PM Mattijs Korpershoek
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Jan,
>
> Thank you for the patch.
>
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 09:26, Jan Kehren <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > AVB assumed its partitions were on mmc: avb_ops_alloc() took a bare device
> > number and get_partition() called find_mmc_device(), which rules out
> > verified boot from anything else.
> >
> > The user that benefits is "avb init", where boards already expect to name
> > an interface: board/armltd/total_compute/total_compute.env picks between
> > virtio and mmc at runtime and then runs "avb init ${blk_dev} 0", which no
> > release has ever accepted. bootmeth_android gains nothing yet, since
> > android_check() rejects non-mmc bootdevs through bootflow_iter_check_mmc().
> >
> > Carry a uclass id alongside the device number and resolve the block device
> > with blk_get_devnum_by_uclass_id(), keeping mmc_init() and the hardware
> > partition switch on the mmc path only. "avb init <dev>" still means mmc,
> > "avb init <interface> <dev>" selects another bus, and neither touches the
> > device: it is still resolved on the first partition access.
> >
> > Only mmc is started by AVB itself, so say that in Kconfig and avb2.rst.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Kehren <[email protected]>
>
> Reviewed-by: Mattijs Korpershoek <[email protected]>
>
> > ---

Hi Mattijs,

A bit off-topic: it looks like this patch series will land soon, so
should I rebase v3
of "avb: device lock state, root key provisioning and in-place verification",
which I'm about to send, on top of this patch series?

Best regards,
Igor

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