On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 08:32:52AM -0500, Ryan Eatmon wrote:
> 
> 
> On 4/22/2024 5:32 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> >On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 02:42:23PM +0530, Chirag Shilwant wrote:
> >>+ Andreas
> >>On 21/04/24 08:37, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> >>>On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 06:23:18PM +0530, Chirag Shilwant wrote:
> >>>>- Ideally running `ls /boot/` in filesystem should list contents from 
> >>>>/rootfs/boot partition
> >>>>but currently it lists the contents of /boot partition of the WIC Image.
> >>>>
> >>>>Eg - Incase of AM64x,
> >>>>```
> >>>>     root@am64xx-evm:~# ls /boot/
> >>>>     EFI  Image  tiboot3-am64x-gp-evm.bin  tiboot3-am64x_sr2-hs-evm.bin  
> >>>> tiboot3-am64x_sr2-hs-fs-evm.bin  tiboot3.bin  tispl.bin  u-boot.img  
> >>>> uEnv.txt
> >>>Will this change affect EFI? As there's EFI directory in that partition.
> >>
> >>The EFI partition under /rootfs/boot will still be present.
> >>Following is the output of `ls /boot` with this patch,
> >>
> >>```
> >>root@am64xx-evm:~# ls /boot
> >>EFI  Image  Image-6.1.80-ti-g2e423244f8c0 dtb  fitImage
> >>fitImage-6.1.80-ti-g2e423244f8c0
> >>
> >>```
> >
> >Thanks, I'll do some additional testing with EFI a bit later.
> >
> >
> >>>>- To fix this issue, add --no-fstab-update flag to WIC_CREATE_EXTRA_ARG 
> >>>>in arago-image.inc
> >>>>to prevent WIC image from adding an additional entry in /etc/fstab.
> >>>This flag is global and will prevent all other partitions from populating
> >>>/etc/fstab properly. Sure, meta-ti only has /boot and / defined, but other
> >>>layers could have own wic files with e.g. /home or /data partitions. 
> >>>Mounting
> >>>those will require a custom /etc/fstab instead of wic creating 
> >>>corresponding
> >>>entries automatically.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>Apparently, this change was being carried in processor sdk layer from
> >>quite a long time (from dunfell) to resolve a customer issue
> >>reported by Andreas.
> >>Diving into our internal JIRA system showed that this fix was
> >>suggested by Andreas
> >>& was resolved by the SDK team back then by keeping this change in
> >>processor sdk layer [1].
> >>Not sure why this was in processor sdk layer though. Maybe Andreas
> >>can provide additional details.
> >
> >I tested and submitted a different fix last night to adjust WIC templates to
> >not mount boot partition under /boot directory[1]. I still believe doing it
> >just for that one partition is better than disabling fstab updates globally.
> >
> >[1] 
> >https://patchwork.yoctoproject.org/project/ti/patch/[email protected]/
> 
> So with the above referenced patch in meta-ti, I'm assuming we do
> not need this patch in meta-arago?

That's my pitch here.

Chirag,

Will that work for you and others?


> >Can you please take a look and maybe test this option for your use case?
> >Thanks.

-- 
Denys


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