[PATCH 1/2] arm: mvebu: clearfog: add SCSI to distro bootcmd

Joel Johnson mrjoel at lixil.net
Fri Apr 17 09:08:03 CEST 2020


On 2020-04-16 00:13, Stefan Roese wrote:
> On 16.04.20 06:09, Joel Johnson wrote:
>> On 2020-03-23 04:20, Stefan Roese wrote:
>>> Added Josua to Cc.
>>> 
>>> On 29.01.20 04:59, Joel Johnson wrote:
>>>> Include attempting to boot from SCSI (SATA) devices within generated
>>>> board distro bootcmd environment. The reasoning for boot ordering is
>>>> that MMC and USB are external and removable, while when a case is in
>>>> use, replacing M.2 or mSATA drives requires disassembly. Therefore,
>>>> to boot SCSI, [bootable] external media must be removed. If SCSI 
>>>> were
>>>> placed before MMC or USB, then removing a bootable SCSI drive to
>>>> enable MMC or USB booting would be more difficult.
>>>> 
>>>> Signed-off-by: Joel Johnson <mrjoel at lixil.net>
>>> 
>>> Josua posted a similar patch (different order though):
>>> 
>>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1239539/
>>> 
>>> I tend to pull your patch though in the next merge window, if nobody
>>> objects. So:
>>> 
>>> Reviewed-by: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Stefan
>> 
>> I just wanted to send a bump on this series. With the first pull 
>> request of the merge window you merged Josua's patch. I'd still 
>> advocate for my original reasoning on the boot order priority, but in 
>> either case the second patch in this series is unique and 
>> non-conflicting since it adds support for the additional SCSI buses 
>> depending on configuration.
>> 
>> Josua - any objection to moving USB boot before SCSI in the priority 
>> order?
>> 
>> I'll rebase the series on current master since it will conflict, but 
>> wanted to try to get consensus on the approach before doing so.
> 
> Okay from me for this.
> 
> Thanks,
> Stefan

Looking again it looks like *both* were merged and resulted in some 
duplication, I just sent a related simple patch to correct.

Joel


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