On Sun, May 07, 2023 at 06:30:55PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > As I've said before, the u-boot developers have poor quality control > and this will almost certainly break some targets. > > I think the way forward is to have a u-boot port per SoC such that we > can leave older SoCs using an older U-Boot version that we know to be > good while newer SoCs can switch to a newer version after testing a > few boards.
That should always work. Not sure if pulling them out of the main u-boot port one by one or all at once is better, though. For the 2207.* update it seemed as if the Pinebook Pro's breakage alone kept all others boards on outdated versions and we practically have no other way of disentangling this mess, afaict. We already have sysutils/u-boot-asahi. Would mean some ports shuffling and installing more package where boot media is built, but that doesn't seem like too much work.
