please install clear text version of boot.scr to as boot.txt on bootfs

[Alexander Sack]

putting it there will allow users to easily edit bootargs and run flash-kernel to recreate the u-boot boot.scr

would be great and safe addition ... and should be easy to do ;).

[Amit Kucheria (amitk)]

On 11 Feb 03, Alexander Sack wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> putting it there will allow users to easily edit bootargs and run flash-
> kernel to recreate the u-boot boot.scr
>
> would be great and safe addition ... and should be easy to do ;).

+1 on this. Beats running 'strings boot.scr' and hacking the result.

[Guilherme Salgado (salgado)]

Why should it be in the rootfs and not in the bootfs alongside the boot.scr that is generated from it?

[Amit Kucheria (amitk)]

On 11 Feb 09, Guilherme Salgado wrote:
> Why should it be in the rootfs and not in the bootfs alongside the
> boot.scr that is generated from it?

The bug headline does point to /boot, so that is fine. /boot is part of the
rootfs technically :)

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

Yes, that's exactly Guilherme's point: /boot is on rootfs, and we have separate rootfs and bootfs; bootfs is typically the first partition and a vfat which holds MLO, u-boot.bin, uImage, uInitrd and boot.scr. rootfs is extN or btrfs and contains /boot/vmlinuz, /boot/initrd. The bug asks for /boot/boot.txt, but it might or might not make more sense to use a boot.txt file on the bootfs rather than a /boot/boot.txt file on the rootfs.

BTW my preference is to have u-boot read a text file script rather than this weird boot.scr format; a patch was sent upstream 10 days ago to implement this. We need to be careful to not overwrite a custom boot.txt with an automatically generated one though; think of the update-grub mechanism for instance. There's some non-trivial amount of work to support it in the rootfs (flash-kernel etc.). I'm not sure this is a linaro-image-tools thing though; eventually, we'd just call this mechanism from linaro-image-tools rather than generating a boot.scr, but currently we mimic what flash-kernel is doing, and that's where we ought to fix this IMHO.

[Aprigio Simoes (aprigiosimoes)]

For partitions in install

/boot (primary partition) 200MB with ext2 or ext3

/ -> 40%

swap -> 2 GB

and rest for /home

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

Moving the easier path of providing a boot.txt on the boot partition for now; please shoot/open another bug if it's an issue