Originally the intention was to fix the U-Boot integration for
Beaglebone, but this seems to have been broken for a long time, almost
a year, and no one has complained about it. The problem appears to be
connected to this commit [1], but it's not entirely clear to me what
the fix should be, and there are a lot of patches for our U-Boot fork.
However, since the U-Boot integration is supposed to be the backup
solution, rather than dig into U-Boot I decided to just fix the UEFI
path instead. This method doesn't require any patching, but there is
a problem with the specific image which is available for download at
the time of writing. So just grab the boot loader and kernel pieces
from a later, yet unbuilt, image, and it all works again.
Changelog: Title
Changelog: beaglebone: Remove U-Boot integration, which has not worked
for a long time. U-Boot will still be used for booting, but GRUB will
be used for integration with Mender, by chainloading via UEFI.
[1] e88d5dbf01
Signed-off-by: Kristian Amlie <kristian.amlie@northern.tech>
The S3 path now follows the pattern:
/mender/mender-convert/uboot/<dev-family>/<dev-config>-<uboot-ver>.tar
For RPi and BBB these are automatically published form the CI Pipeline
of repo mender-convert-integration-scripts while for RockPro64 they have
been manually moved (as we expect this to be a one time integration).
Reworked a bit also the *_BINARIES variable so that we can keep the
u-boot version in the base config files and let the childs only define
the a config name.
Changelog: None
Signed-off-by: Lluis Campos <lluis.campos@northern.tech>
The goals of the re-write was to achieve the following:
1. It should be easy to extend the tool to support other boards or distributions
2. We should not compile code in the tool (rely on binaries built elsewhere)
compiling code increases complexity, due to requirement of toolchains etc.
3. The tool shall not be designed around specific hardware/platform types
- This is the case today with the usage of --device-type flag
4 The tool should be to convert images without knowing anything about the hardware/platform
relates to above 3.
5. Configuration interface should be simplified
- command line flags -> configuration files
6. Platform specific code shall be provided trough “hooks”, and are not part of the “core” mender-convert code
7. It shall be easy to extend functionality
- support for rootfs overlay to inject user applications/configurations
- ability to override how the Mender Artifact is generated (to be able to sign and include state-scripts)
8. Code structure should be modular
- Eases Maintenance and possibility of making isolated changes
Changelog: Title
Signed-off-by: Mirza Krak <mirza.krak@northern.tech>
Kristian Amlie
Drew Moseley
Lluis Campos
Mirza Krak