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

[Kory Maincent]

On Mon, 3 Nov 2025 11:52:25 +0100
Kory Maincent <kory.maincent at bootlin.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Nov 2025 20:54:02 +0100
> Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> 
> > 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?  
> 
> Ok, I will take a look at it.

There is a custom nand boot target [1], and I have not any am335x board with
nand memory to test it. I am afraid to break it during the update to bootstd.
Not sure we can accept that. What do you think?

[1]https://elixir.bootlin.com/u-boot/v2025.10/source/include/configs/am335x_evm.h#L27

Regards,
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Köry Maincent, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and kernel engineering
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