[PATCH 2/2] fwu: Gracefully handle missing FWU metadata device

Ilias Apalodimas ilias.apalodimas at linaro.org
Tue Jul 7 13:07:12 CEST 2026


[...]
> >>>>
> >>>> Pretty much this patch is bringing back old behavior before these two patches
> >>>> have been applied to the repo.
> >>>
> >>> It doesn't make sense to update to or run a firmware that won't be
> >>> able to use capsule updates ever again.
> >>
> >> It means that can be consider as misconfiguration. Which ends up today in
> >> forever loop (1/2 will at least tell now what it is happening).
> >>
> >> , eth1: ethernet at ed920000
> >> Cannot find fwu device
> >> Cannot find fwu device
> >> Cannot find fwu device
> >> Cannot find fwu device
> >> Cannot find fwu device
> >> Cannot find fwu device
> >> Cannot find fwu device
> >> Cannot find fwu device
> >> Cannot find fwu device
> >> Cannot find fwu device
> >>
> >> But shouldn't be there different action? Go back to second image or reset for
> >> example?
> >
> > At this point, either your metadata is gone, in which case you can
> > either try to recreate them and hope for the best or an update broke
> > the fwu mechanism indeed.
> > In theory the board will automatically revert to the secondary
> > partition after X reboots since no one is providing an acceptance
> > capsule (or variable) so reseting should be fine.
>
> It just means that I should drop this patch right?

Yes please.

Thanks
/Ilias
>
> Thanks,
> Michal


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