On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 03:51:42PM +0200, Paolo Pisati wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 01:10:45PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > > Any comments from the Ubuntu side of things, please? Replies should > > probably go to the cross-distro list, I guess. The thread is at:
> > http://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/cross-distro/2014-May/000676.html > i see two requirements here: > 1) create a symlink in a fixed location (e.g. /boot/dtb) that points to the > latest dtbs installment (much like /vmlinuz points to the kernel) > 2) move dtbs to a filesystem that u-boot can handle (extX or vfat so far) > to make this effective we need to achieve both (there's little point in > creating /boot/dtb -> /lib/firmware/etcetc if /lib is an xfs/btrfs filesystem) > so, IMO, the symlink position is what the cross-distro ml should pick, > while we as a distribution, should move the dtbs to a place that u-boot > can always access > any thoughts on this? Riku brought this up for discussion on #debian-arm the other day, and I argued against this proposal as an attempt to standardize something that doesn't need to be standardized. Ubuntu (like Debian) already uses flash-kernel to ensure that if a dtb needs to be accessible to the bootloader, it's installed to an appropriate place. Putting other dtbs that are *not* used by the bootloader on the currently-installed platform into /boot is wrong from an FHS standpoint. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected]
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