-------- Forwarded Message -------- URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52939> Summary: [PATCH] 10_linux: support loading device trees Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: xypron Submitted on: Sat 20 Jan 2018 11:58:56 AM CET Category: Booting Severity: Major Priority: 5 - Normal Item Group: Feature Request Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: Heinrich Schuchardt Originator Email: xypron.g...@gmx.de Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: Release: Git master Reproducibility: Every Time Planned Release: None _______________________________________________________ Details: Currently grub only loads the Linux kernel and the initial file system before booting. On the arm and arm64 architectures the device tree is also needed for booting. The device tree is Linux kernel version dependent. So we can not rely on the initial bootloader to provide the correct device tree when calling grub. For example I am using U-Boot to load iPXE. In iPXE I choose an iSCSI target. iPXE connects to the target and starts grubaa64.efi. The device tree that has to be used depends on the Linux kernel installed on the chosen iSCSI target. Luckily the device tree to be loaded can be specified in grub with the devicetree command. The patch changes the 10_linux script to look in sequence for files * ${dirname}/dtb-${version} and * ${dirname}/dtb. If one of the files is present an entry devicetreee ${rel_dirname}/${dtb} is added to the Linux boot entry. == Distro suppport == Debian maintains a symbolic link /boot/dtb to the most current device tree and another symbolic link /boot/dtb-${version} for the version specific devicetree if package flash-kernel is installed. On Suse a symbolic link /boot/dtb points to the current /boot/dtb-${version}. == Caveats == The EFI bootloader will still have to supply a dummy device tree which will be replaced by the devicetree command. As of U-Boot version v2018.01 U-Boot this dummy device tree has to be passed explicitely to the bootefi command. _______________________________________________________ File Attachments: ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat 20 Jan 2018 11:58:56 AM CET Name: 0001-10_linux-support-loading-device-trees.patch Size: 3KiB By: xypron <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=42983> _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52939> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/
