Do make sense an u-boot installer?
Alberto Planas
aplanas at suse.de
Tue Apr 13 19:09:54 CEST 2021
Hi,
lately I am working on a small script that try to unify and help the
installation of u-boot (and the different assets) into SD cards.
As I am not knowledge about u-boot, I am starting small and with an use case
that makes sense for my work. I want to discuss a bit if makes sense the idea,
can be extended to cover other use cases and have a chance to be upstreamed
inside u-boot/tools.
Before sending any patches, the current code is living here:
https://github.com/aplanas/u-boot/tree/dubi/tools/dubi
and the documentation is:
https://github.com/aplanas/u-boot/blob/dubi/tools/dubi/README
It is a POSIX Shell script with minimal dependencies, and fully tested via the
script `test_dubi` from the same directory.
The referred use case is like this:
* In the openSUSE project we generate a bunch of images for multiple ARM /
RISC-V devices, and all the logic for the installation is in a place that is
hard to reuse. There are other teams that needs this installation logic for
other projects.
* Could be handy a tool that can tool that can do something like:
# List all the devices models that I can install
dubi --list
# Partition, format and install the bootloader in a local image file
dubi --format --wipe -m rpi4 sdcard.img
# ... or in a real device
dubi --format --wipe -m rpi4 /dev/sdc
The models are stored in separated directories:
/usr/share/u-boot/
rpi4/
dubi.dsc
uboot.bin
boot.scr
rpi3/
...
And a typical description file can be something like this:
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
MODEL=sunxi
CPU=a31
DESCRIPTION="Allwinner A31 (sun6i) SoC features a Quad-Core Cortex-A7 ARM
Processor SoC, and a Power VR SGX544 (with 8 shader engines) GPU from
Imagination Technologies."
EFI=n
LABEL=dos
FILESYSTEM=ext4
register partition size=16MiB type=c
register partition size=500MiB type=swap
register partition type=linux
register bootloader u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin dst=8k
register bootscr boot.scr partition=1 path=/
... or something like that.
The current script more or less to that (minus some missing calls to mkimage,
WIP), and allows you to inject your own code for the different stages of the
installation process, in case that the defaults get too short.
Is this a path for an installer that makes sense? If so, any thoughts about
changes / improvements?
Thanks!
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