On 22/11/2022 20:11, Neil Armstrong wrote:
Hi,
On 21/11/2022 13:23, Quentin Schulz wrote:
Hi Patrick,
Thanks for looking at it.
On 10/28/22 11:01, Patrick Delaunay wrote:
Since the commit d5ba6188dfbf ("cmd: pxe_utils: Check fdtcontroladdr in label_boot") the FDT or the FDTDIR label is required in extlinux.conf and the fallback done by bootm command when only the device tree is present in this command parameters is no more performed when FIT is used for kernel.
The next file "extlinux.conf" no more selects the device tree in FIT but use the pxe fallback with the device tree of U-Boot.
menu title Select the boot mode DEFAULT test LABEL test KERNEL /fitImage
This serie restores the possibility to use a FIT in extlinux.conf by using FDT label with the same string.
menu title Select the boot mode DEFAULT test LABEL test KERNEL /fitImage FDT /fitImage
even when a specific FIT config is used:
menu title Select the boot mode DEFAULT test LABEL test KERNEL /fitImage#config FDT /fitImage#config
The last commit of the series is only a minor improvement.
I tested this on my Puma RK3399 and it does work again, thanks.
However, I'm not sure this is what we should go for?
My worry is the following: What happens for old releases (pre-v2022.04) where KERNEL worked just fine without the FDT to load the fdt from the fitimage conf specified in KERNEL field? Would we now need to keep an extlinux.conf for pre-2022.04 releases where FDT wouldn't be set and one for 2023.01 and later where FDT would be mentioned? That does not seem like a good thing for distros.
I unfortunately cannot answer the question myself without spending significant effort patching v2022.01 to get it to work on our Puma module. Does anyone have access to a board to quickly check an extlinux.conf with KERNEL and FDT set to /fitImage on a v2022.01 release?
I'm building kirkstone images with meta-meson having v2022.01, I'll test with FDT set to /fitImage to see if it breaks.
It breaks: Found /extlinux/extlinux.conf Retrieving file: /extlinux/extlinux.conf 1: Yocto Retrieving file: /fitImage append: root=PARTUUID=3ebc0005-02 rootwait console=ttyAML0,115200 Retrieving file: /fitImage Bad Linux ARM64 Image magic! SCRIPT FAILED: continuing...
Neil
Is there really no other way than adding this new requirement? (Nothing against it if it does not break older releases with the "new" extlinux.conf though).
Cheers, Quentin