On 2021-12-29, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > On 12/28/21 13:46, Rainer Dorsch wrote: >> Am Dienstag, 28. Dezember 2021, 11:47:37 CET schrieb Uwe Kleine-König: >>> I can recommend barebox here instead of U-Boot. i.MX is the probably >>> best supported platform for it and I would expect the cubox-i to be >>> directly supported. >>> >>> Barebox can mount various filesystems and if there is a bootspec entry >>> in your rootfs (e.g. flash-kernel can write such an entry) you can just do: >>> >>> boot /mnt/mmc0.0 >>> >>> to let barebox pick the kernel, initrd and dtb from the filesystem on >>> mmc0.0 and pass root=UUID=$therightone. >> >> Thanks for the advice. Is barebox already packaged for Debian and I just >> don't >> find it or do I need to install it from non-Debian sources?
I briefly tried barebox and must say I liked it; if it's supported by a platform you use I can definitely recommend trying barebox! The shell felt more like a bourne shell (e.g. bash) than u-boot and maybe a bit more comfortable for someone not already familiar with u-boot... > It's not yet packaged, there is only an ITP, which waits for some effort > to convert barebox to SPDX. https://bugs.debian.org/900958 That looks to be *mostly* done, from a quick glance. Looking forward to seeing it in Debian! live well, vagrant
