[PATCH 0/2] Add support for customizable find_distro_rootpart

Kory Maincent kory.maincent at bootlin.com
Fri Oct 31 19:11:04 CET 2025


On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:47:33 -0600
Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 05:36:02PM +0100, Kory Maincent (TI.com) wrote:
> 
> > Add a customizable find_distro_rootpart command to allow each board to
> > define its own logic for locating the rootfs partition inside the
> > config_distro_bootcmd logic.
> > 
> > Convert am335x_evm board to this new find_distro_rootpart customizable
> > environment variable to locate the rootfs partition dynamically, instead
> > of finduuid which hardcodes the rootfs partition location (mmc 0:2).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kory Maincent (TI.com) <kory.maincent at bootlin.com>
> > ---
> > Kory Maincent (TI.com) (2):
> >       distro_bootcmd: Add support for customizable find_distro_rootpart
> >       include: configs: am335x_evm: Replace findduid with
> > find_distro_rootpart  
> 
> The first question here is, can we migrate these to standard boot
> instead, or is that kind of functionality also missing there?

I will let Simon confirm but I don't see anything related to the rootfs
partition or parameters that could be used by the "root=" Linux cmdline option.

Regards,
-- 
Köry Maincent, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com


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