On 2023-05-18, Christopher Obbard wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 15:16:45 +0100 Arnaud Ferraris <aferra...@debian.org> 
> wrote:
>> It is common practice for /boot to be on a separate partition, requiring DTBs
>> to be synced to this partition for u-boot to be able to access them.
>> 
>> This used to be done manually, or required additional scripts to be installed
>> by the user for automatic processing. As I think it would be useful for 
>> u-boot-
>> menu to automatically perform such synchronization, I have implemented such a
>> feature and attached the corresponding patches.
>> 
>> Please note this feature is currently guarded by a new config option, as I
>> expect users might get surprised and/or unexpected results by a sudden
>> behaviour change that important.
>> 
>> Comments and suggestions are obviously welcome.
>
> Ack from me on these patches.
>
> I think this patch series is the final part in letting u-boot-menu handle 
> systems
> where  a separate /boot partition is useful.

Unfortunately, this will have to wait till after bookworm release,
currently scheduled for June.


> I'd even suggest to enable this by default on systems where there is a 
> separate
> /boot partition.

That would take a bit more work, as (for better or worse) flash-kernel
is still installed by debian-installer by default and there may be
conflicts between how the two scripts handle the .dtb copying...


live well,
  vagrant

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