Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 13:30:47 -0500 From: Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com
On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 11:16:35AM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
Hi Mark,
On Thu, 20 Jan 2022 at 03:29, Mark Kettenis mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl wrote:
From: Michael Walle michael@walle.cc Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:35:44 +0100
The bootdevs have a natural priority, based on the assumed speed of the device, so the board would only need to intervene (with an env var or a devicetree property) when that is wrong.
Does this make sense in general? The default boot order for a board should depend on what is available on board (or on the carrier board) and what is pluggable. I doubt there can be a sane default, so almost all boards will have to define its own boot order anyway.
Please can you be more specific about what you the problem is here? If the board does not have a device then it will not exist in driver model (or will not probe) and it won't have a bootdev (or it won't probe). That seems to be equivalent to me.
So, I'm not sure how much of a problem it is, since the board can still define the default probe order via environment. But pick any random SoC with more than 1 SD/MMC set of lines on the chip. Youboard may put the first as SD slot and second as eMMC and Myboard may do the opposite and both are going to probe in the same order since it's the same chip.
That's what I think Mark is getting at with it not really making sense to just rely on probe order as what to try.
Something like that. I remember a lot of issues when boards were switched over to DM_MMC and the boot order changed. I believe this ended up beging solved by having aliases in the device tree.