Hi Andre,
On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 10:11:19AM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
So while I see that this series fixes a particular problem, I am a bit wary of this solution, as this just papers over the issue and will likely break in the future again.
Can't we somehow fix the environment problem? Possibly via the upgrade process (save the environment, update U-Boot, re-install the environment)? Or some other clever way? That would be more future proof, I believe.
That would be the ideal solution, but it would also assume that you have an upgrade mechanism in the first place. It might work for the distros, but it will not for anyone else that will just upgrade as they did it for the last 5 years and suddenly everything is broken.
And part of that upgrade would also be to change the partition layout if you created partitions that match the various offsets, which is basically impossible without reflashing everything again.
So yeah, I would very much favor that, but that's not really doable.
Maxime