[PATCH 1/2] distro_bootcmd: Add support for customizable find_distro_rootpart

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sun Nov 2 20:54:02 CET 2025


Hi Kory,

On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 at 17:36, Kory Maincent (TI.com) <
kory.maincent at bootlin.com> wrote:
>
> Commit d0ba0ca45a49 ("distro_bootcmd: Set distro_bootpart_uuid for block
> devices") added support for the distro_boot_part_uuid environment variable
> to allow using PARTUUID in the kernel command line.
>
> However, the way it was written only supports the case where the boot
files
> and the rootfs are located in the same partition. There are many cases
> where the boot partition and rootfs partition are separate.
>
> Add a customizable find_distro_rootpart command to allow each board to
> define its own logic for locating the rootfs partition. This provides
> flexibility for boards with custom partition layouts while maintaining
> backward compatibility for the default case where boot and rootfs share
> the same partition.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kory Maincent (TI.com) <kory.maincent at bootlin.com>
> ---
>  doc/develop/distro.rst          | 11 +++++++++++
>  include/config_distro_bootcmd.h | 10 +++++++---
>  2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>

How about moving to standard boot and look at this there?

Regards,
Simon


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