Currently, when deploying an OSTree that does not contain a
bootloader configuration it fails with the following message:
"No known bootloader configuration detected"
A bootloader configuration is not strictly necessary if the
bootloader used is able to parse /boot/loader/entries on boot.
So, failing to deploy seems to be a little harsh. It is better
to just not write the bootloader configuration if a previous
one was not found but still swap the bootversion.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706477
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk>
This patch adds support to generate files that
can be used by Universal Bootloader (U-Boot).
U-Boot allows to modify boards default boot commands by
reading and executing a bootscript file or importing a
plain text file that contains environment variables that
could parameterize the boot command or a bootscript.
OSTree generates a uEnv.txt file that contains booting
information that is taken from Boot Loader Specification
snippets files as defined in the new OSTree deployment model:
https://wiki.gnome.org/OSTree/DeploymentModel2
On deploy or upgrade an uEnv.txt env var file is created
in the path /boot/loader.${bootversion}/uEnv.txt. Also, a
/boot/uEnv.txt symbolic link to loader/uEnv.txt is created
so U-Boot can always import the file from a fixed path.
Since U-Boot does not support a menu to list a set of
Operative Systems, the most recent bootloader configuration
from the list is used.
To boot an OSTree using the generated uEnv.txt file, a
board has to parameterize its default boot command using the
following variables defined by OSTree:
${kernel_image}: path to the Linux kernel image
${ramdisk_image}: path to the initial ramdisk image
${bootargs}: parameters passed to the kernel command line
Alternatively, for boards that don't support this scheme,
a bootscript that overrides the default boot command can be used.
An example of such a bootscript could be:
setenv scriptaddr 40008000
setenv kernel_addr 0x40007000
setenv ramdisk_addr 0x42000000
ext2load mmc 0:1 ${scriptaddr} uEnv.txt
env import -t ${scriptaddr} ${filesize}
ext2load mmc 0:1 ${kernel_addr} ${kernel_image}
ext2load mmc 0:1 ${ramdisk_addr} ${ramdisk_image}
bootm ${kernel_addr} ${ramdisk_addr}
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706370
Javier Martinez Canillas