[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 0/3] Boot from the bootable paritions
Sjoerd Simons
sjoerd.simons at collabora.co.uk
Wed Mar 25 09:45:39 CET 2015
+ Corrected Tom Rini's e-mail address
On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 08:45 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> The release of -rc4 reminded me that i never got around to pinging about
> this set:
>
> On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 23:23 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> > In the discussion after the submission of the "Let the distro boot command scan
> > all partitions" patchset it became clear the general consensus was that
> > u-boot should not simply scan all partitions but instead only partitions with
> > the bootable flag set, falling back to parition 1 as was previously done.
>
> As Hans de Goede already remarked for the first revision of this set,
> this patchset should probably be included in final v2015.04 to prevent
> the boot behaviour of the distro boot commands changing again post
> release.
>
> For reference, v2015.1 just tried from the first partition on the
> various devices, current master tries to boot from all partitions (due
> to one of my earlier patchsets) and with this patchset we again change
> to just booting from partitions with the boot flag set, falling back to
> the first partition (as was the consensus from the mailinglist
> discussion).
>
> > This set of patches implements that
> >
> > Changes since v1:
> > * Make updated part list command more precise about what arguments ordering
> > it accepts.
> >
> > Sjoerd Simons (3):
> > part: Add support for list filtering on bootable partitions
> > config_cmd_default.h: Add 'env exists' command
> > config_distro_bootcmd.h: Prefer booting from bootable paritions
> >
> > common/cmd_part.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
> > include/config_cmd_default.h | 1 +
> > include/config_distro_bootcmd.h | 3 ++-
> > 3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> >
>
>
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