[MIR] u-boot

[Loïc Minier]

Binary package hint: u-boot

Hi

u-boot's mkimage tool was shipped in the uboot-mkimage source and binary package until recently. This source was an old fork of u-boot and had been promoted to main because mkimage is needed on ARM system booting with u-boot as to convert the kernel zImage to the uImage format.

Debian transitioned to the u-boot source and binary package to ship the mkimage tool, and the removal of uboot-mkimage is pending.

u-boot contains similar source than u-boot-omap4 which we had in main in maverick at some point, but comes from directly from upstream (via Debian) while u-boot-omap4 was an omapzoom fork used in pandaboard images.

Note that while the u-boot package builds bootloaders on various architectures, we would only use mkimage in main; most u-boot binaries we use would probably come from the u-boot-linaro source instead. So I don't see much security risk in

I fixed a minor issue with u-boot recently, and I'm aware of these two things which need fixing:
- fails to build on i386; I identified the cause and am discussing a fix with upstream; this not a blocker as it's currently only installed on ARM systems and used to build debian-installer on ARM, but it is also useful on cdimage to build ARM images, and so it will eventually need to be fixed on i386 as well
- needs to provide a transitional package for systems which have uboot-mkimage installed; hrw proposed a patch adding this which I'll sponsor ASAP.

I didn't scrutinize the packaging too much, it mostly comes from Debian and I expect most of the maintenance to continue in Debian.

I've checked UbuntuMainInclusionRequirements and I don't see any issue with promoting the package to main, or any other noteworthy things.

Cheers,

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

it is not "also useful" on cdimage, it seems that uboot-mkimage was removed from the archive before this MIR was approved, which results in *all* armel images failing to build now, can this MIR please be approved ASAP so we can make sure to have working images before the sprint ?

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

this is fine with me given that we have the split of u-boot-tools as discussed here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=594937 ... so we can just have the u-boot-tools binary promoted.

so either wait, or do it in advance here and provide the patch to debian (thats preferred way i guess)

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

e.g. in u-boot_2010.12~rc2-1ubuntu1_armel.deb there is:

./usr/bin/mkimage
./usr/lib
./usr/lib/u-boot
./usr/lib/u-boot/openrd_base
./usr/lib/u-boot/openrd_base/u-boot.kwb
./usr/lib/u-boot/openrd_base/uboot.elf
./usr/lib/u-boot/sheevaplug
./usr/lib/u-boot/sheevaplug/u-boot.kwb
./usr/lib/u-boot/sheevaplug/uboot.elf
./usr/lib/u-boot/guruplug
./usr/lib/u-boot/guruplug/u-boot.kwb
./usr/lib/u-boot/guruplug/uboot.elf

this MIR just wants the usr/bin bits, while all the usr/lib bits are irrelevant for ubuntu and hence I would prefer to see those not in main.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

(sorry for one more comment ...)

alternatively, I would be fine to take all as it is if at least one useful bootloader used by ubuntu images was shipped in this u-boot source (e.g. omap3 would be a candidate).

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

I've uploaded a fix for the i386 build.

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

a package with the split into u-boot and u-boot-tools has been uploaded to the archive, please approve u-boot-tools into main now.

u-boot (2010.12-1ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  [ Oliver Grawert ]
  * Package Loïcs debian changes ahead of time since ubuntu-arm image builds
    are blocked on the missing mkimage tool

  [ Loïc Minier ]
  * Split tools in u-boot-tools package
  * Build more tools in board-independent section
  * Add myself to Uploaders
  * Don't include debian-changes in the diff
  * Don't ignore debian/patches
  * Don't repeat Section: in binary package
  * Cleanup include/asm/proc and /arch
  * Add patch to fix build on i386; closes: #608801.
  * Add a dummy uboot-mkimage package for upgrades from squeeze; based on a
    patch by Marcin Juszkiewicz; closes: #607618.
  * Install and compress upstream mkimage manpage; based on a patch by
    Marcin Juszkiewicz.
  * Fix handling of -Wl,foo LDFLAGS; closes: #607613.
  * Misc refactoring of debian/rules
  * Split per architecture list of platform and targets into
    debian/targets
  * Actually use INSTALL_FILE/INSTALL_DIR/INSTALL_PROGRAM
  * Add support for cross-builds; these will currently lack board-specific
    tools
  * Build board-specific u-boot files in a separate build dir from the
    generic tools
  * Avoid dpkg-architecture if DEB_HOST_ARCH is set
  * Ignore /.pc/

u-boot (2010.12-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version.
  * Install more tools in preparation for splitting off a
    u-boot-tools binary package.
 -- Oliver Grawert <email address hidden> Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:43:01 +0100

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

2011-01-07 12:57:57 INFO Override Component to: 'main'
2011-01-07 12:58:06 INFO 'u-boot - 2010.12-1ubuntu1/universe/admin' source overridden
2011-01-07 12:58:06 INFO 'u-boot-2010.12~rc2-1ubuntu2/universe/admin/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in natty/amd64
2011-01-07 12:58:06 INFO 'u-boot-2010.12~rc2-1ubuntu2/universe/admin/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in natty/armel
2011-01-07 12:58:06 INFO 'u-boot-2010.12~rc2-1ubuntu2/universe/admin/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in natty/i386
2011-01-07 12:58:06 INFO 'u-boot-2010.12~rc2-1ubuntu2/universe/admin/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in natty/powerpc