[PATCH] arm: vexpress64: juno: Enable distro_bootcmd functionality

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Wed Jul 21 15:58:36 CEST 2021


On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 1:25 AM Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com> wrote:

> The ARM Juno boards can be used as somewhat decent machines to run
> off-the-shelf distributions, with USB, SATA, GBit Ethernet and 8GB of
> DRAM.
>
> With stable DTs in the board's NOR flash this would work really nicely,
> however the default boot command is to fetch a kernel and an initrd from
> the on-board NOR flash, which sounds somewhat embedded.
>
> Include the config_distro_bootcmd.h header and define the available
> devices (starting with USB, to catch USB installer sticks) to make
> distributions and UEFI work out of the box.
> The NOR flash kernel functionality is still preserved as the last
> resort, should all other methods fail.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>

Looks helpful!

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij


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