On 2025-01-26, Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> wrote: > Now, there is the sysutils/u-boot port (subpackage arm seems > the one relevant here), currently at version u-boot-arm-2021.10p9. > > Guessing by the name and "U-Boot SPL 2021.10 (Apr 20 2024 - 17:53:20 -0600)", > does that mean that the 2021.10 version of the uboot is the latest > that the port holds? (The port itself was last updated in April 2024.)
yes > The diff is small: for MLO, it's just the build time string, > for u-boot.img, this seems to be a s ingle 'line' different in the header. > So I'm _guessing_ these are supposed to be the "same" files. probably; it's not particularly unusual for binaries to include the build time. > Also, the BBB ones are timestamped Jan 14, > which is when I last updated the machine. > > (1) Does the installer, when sysupgrading, also upgrade > these uboot files on the MSDOS partition, as it seems? given what you see, probably :) i'm not familiar with this but you can check in /usr/src/distrib to see how it works > (2) Where does the armv7 installer get them, given that there > is no u-boot package for armv7? What is their relation to > the ones present in the sysutils/u-boot port? they're installed on the build machine (IIUC from amd64 packages via a slightly problematic mechanism; they aren't able to be built natively on armv7). -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
