2018-02-26 23:18 GMT+03:00 Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de>:
>
>
> On 26.02.18 20:36, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:
>> 2018-02-26 22:07 GMT+03:00 Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de>:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 26.02.18 08:19, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:
>>>> 2018-02-26 0:06 GMT+03:00 Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de>:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Am 25.02.2018 um 16:37 schrieb Matwey V. Kornilov 
>>>>>> <matwey.korni...@gmail.com>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 25.02.2018 18:22, Matwey V. Kornilov пишет:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am faced the issue that recent JeOS builds cannot be read by u-boot:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ls mmc 1:2 /
>>>>>>> Failed to mount ext2 filesystem...
>>>>>>> ** Unrecognized filesystem type **
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hm, Now I see. Why do you use btrfs for having separate /boot partition?
>>>>>> Is there any reason for it?
>>>>>
>>>>> I assume that change came with the seitch to python-kiwi. I assume the 
>>>>> main rationale would be snapshotting of /boot, so you can load old 
>>>>> kernels.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> /lib/modules are on the separate partition, so it won't work anyway.
>>>> We could have united / and put dtb files onto separate EFI partition
>>>> for snapshotting kernels.
>>>
>>> Nah, if you go that far, better ensure the built-in device tree from
>>> U-Boot contains a device tree that just covers everything you need. That
>>> way you don't need to load any dtb files. The dtb loading from /boot is
>>> really mostly there for cases where firmware is "broken" and does not
>>> deliver good, upstream compatible device trees.
>>>
>>
>> Well, it would be full of pain way, especially in cases when one
>> bootloader fits multiple dtb-s (i.e. am335x).
>
> It depends. Currently, U-Boot needs to detect the board and find a
> different dtb. Instead, it could easily just pick a different built-in dtb.
>
> Depending on the board you're on, it may even be the easiest way
> forward. As soon as U-Boot 2018.03 is in Factory, I'll move the
> Raspberry Pi to a model where the RPi firmware provided devices tree
> gets propagated all the way to U-Boot as well as Linux. And that makes
> things easier at the end of the day, because we don't need to
> synchronize 3 different DTs throughout the boot process.
>

At least, neither rk3328 nor marvel 3700 espressobin not able to boot
the kernel using bundled u-boot dtb.
I think this should be primarily solved upstream, if they would manage
to merge dts trees between different projects.

>
> Alex



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