[PATCH v2 00/31] bootstd: Support recording images

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Sat Oct 19 18:31:16 CEST 2024


On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 09:21:40AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> This series provides a way to keep track of the images used in bootstd,

> including the type of each image.
> 
> At present this is sort-of handled by struct bootflow but in quite an
> ad-hoc way. The structure has become quite large and is hard to query.
> Future work will be able to reduce its size.
> 
> Ultimately the 'bootflow info' command may change to also show images as
> a list, but that is left for later, as this series is already fairly
> long. So for now, just introduce the concept and adjust bootstd to use
> it, with a simple command to list the images.
> 
> This series includes various alist enhancements, to make use of this new
> data structure a little easier.
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - Add an image type extension in bootflow.h

I really wish you hadn't posted v2 so quickly because this isn't what I
want to see happen and I'm not convinced that this is the right path
yet.

-- 
Tom
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