From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
To: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
Cc: 35217@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#35217] gnu: u-boot: Update to 2019.04.
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 23:02:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190415230214.31877ad1@scratchpost.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9zl33hh.fsf@ponder>
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Hi Vagrant,
On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 15:22:18 -0700
Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> wrote:
> > On 2019-04-10, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> > * gnu/packages/bootloaders (u-boot): Update to 2019.04.
> ...
> > (u-boot-am335x-evm): New variable.
> > (u-boot-am335x-boneblack): Deprecate variable.
>
> The am335x-boneblack configuration was dropped from upstream.
>
> The am335x-evm image is considerably larger than the am335x-boneblack
> images, which leads to issues when installing at a device offset, as it
> will overwrite the first partition unless the first partition starts
> significantly later than most tools (parted, cfdisk) default of sector
> 2048 (beagleboard.org images start the first partition at sector 8192).
>
> The embedded-os-installation code should probably check to make sure
> they aren't trampling the first partition if installing to the raw
> device offset.
That would make the parted bindings a hard dependency, probably even
build-side. But I think that would still be better than the alternative:
destroying user filesystems.
> Alternately, it's possible to copy the u-boot.img onto the first FAT
> partition of the microSD/eMMC, which will be loaded instead of the
> offset. But that takes some rethinking of how to install the bootloader
> (which would be good to not diverge from upstream for other platforms,
> such as u-boot-novena).
Yeah, I think sooner or later it's going to come to this. Might as well
bite the bullet now.
> In light of all that, I'm not sure what a proper way forward is...
Yeah, sounds like a bad situation with no nice solution that allows
updating of existing installations. In that case, keeping existing
installations on the old version would be preferrable to breaking
them.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-15 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-10 7:39 [bug#35217] gnu: u-boot: Update to 2019.04 Vagrant Cascadian
[not found] ` <87zhox33vu.fsf@ponder>
2019-04-10 22:22 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2019-04-15 21:02 ` Danny Milosavljevic [this message]
2019-04-16 4:46 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2019-04-29 10:35 ` bug#35217: " Danny Milosavljevic
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