[U-Boot] [PATCH V4 2/3] ARM: tegra: rework boot scripts

[Stephen Warren]

On 02/13/2014 10:16 AM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:39:41 -0700
> Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 02/13/2014 04:13 AM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>>> Hi Stephen,
>>>
>>> I noticed one issue
>>>
>>> On Wed,  5 Feb 2014 09:24:58 -0700
>>> Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
>>>>
>>>> Update the common Tegra boot scripts in the default environment to
>>>>
>>>> a) Make use of the new "test -e" shell command to avoid some error
>>>>    messages.
>>>>
>>>> b) Allow booting using the sysboot command and extlinux.conf. This
>>>>    allows easy creation of boot menus, and provides a simple
>>>> interface for distros to parameterize/configure the boot process.
>>
>>>> diff --git a/include/configs/tegra-common-post.h
>>>> b/include/configs/tegra-common-post.h index
>>
>>>> +	"do_sysboot_boot="
>>>> \
>>>> +		"sysboot ${devtype} ${devnum}:${rootpart} any
>>>> "           \
>>>> +			"${scriptaddr}
>>>> ${prefix}extlinux.conf\0"          \
>>>
>>> extlinux config files are placed into an extlinux directory
>>> you will need to use ${prefix}extlinux/extlinux.conf
>>
>> What places them there? The spec doesn't say anything about placement
>> of this file. Since this is a new feature, I don't think there's any
>> de-facto standard, is there? I'd prefer that the files be placed in
>> the same location as any other boot file, to avoid pointless extra
>> directory levels (i.e. / for a partition that's mounted as /boot, or
>> in /boot for a partition that's mounted as /).
> 
> 
> http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/EXTLINUX
> 
> anaconda and the image creation tools both use /boot/extlinux
> according to http://shallowsky.com/linux/extlinux.html debian also uses
> it

OK. I wasn't aware that people were using these config files for
anything yet; I thought it was something new being rolled out to get
bootloader-agnostic boot config on ARM, and assumed that non-ARM was
still using e.g. grub etc.

Neither of those links specify that the extlinux.conf file has to be
named (/boot)/extlinux/extlinux.conf. The first link simply specifies
that it's possible to put the file in such a sub-directory, and the
second that Debian just happens to do so.

Still, in the interests of conforming to the de-facto standard, I'll
repost the Tegra and bcm2835 boot script patches to adjust to that.

> extlinux is not bootloaderspec.   bootloaderspec does say where to put
> them:
> 
> Inside the $BOOT/loader/entries/ directory each OS vendor may drop one
> ...

Ah right. I'd meant to say that bootloaderspec doesn't say anything
about an "extlinux/" directory, not to say that it didn't say anything
about where to put the files.