[PATCH v5 38/46] boot: Consider non-bootable partitions

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 03:24:02PM +0000, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 at 15:04, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 02:25:58PM +0000, Simon Glass wrote:
> >
> > > Any 'bootable' flag in a DOS partition causes boostd to only scan
> > > bootable partitions for that media. This can mean that extlinux.conf
> > > files on the root disk are missed.
> > >
> > > Put this logic behind a flag and update the documentation.
> > >
> > > For now, the flag is enabled, to preserve existing behaviour. Future
> > > work may provide a command (or some other mechanism) to control this.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> >
> > Isn't this backwards as the existing behavior (prior to bootstd) was to
> > scan and use these files, and so that's the behavior we need to preserve
> > by default.
> 
> Not so far as I know, but I've already spent too much time trying to
> decode those scripts.
> 
> If you look at scan_dev_for_boot_part, that is what I was trying to
> replicate with bootstd.

The feedback from the community call where this was brought up was that
it used to work and now didn't, I thought. Heinrich, I think you had one
of the cases here (something about RISC-V and multiple distros?) or am I
misremembering?

-- 
Tom
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