Add recipe for balena bootloader #1097
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Depends on balena-os/meta-balena#3326 |
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| PROVIDES = "virtual/balena-bootloader" |
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why not "virtual/bootloader"?
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This is used to pull balena bootloader into the image without using the specific package name:
https://github.com/balena-os/balena-raspberrypi/pull/1091/files#diff-abca8cd7f0af2e032dfdeec9e689532b73da44e8b689133f6d02617cec7fb5f9R79
But I am not sure whether it is particularly useful since the package name will be per-device-repo anyway. That is the only place where it is used. I think it is virtual/balena-bootloader because it was virtual/linux-kboot in the old dev branches and I just changed linux-kboot to balena-bootloader everywhere.
I have no strong opinion either way, do you think we should provide virtual/bootloader here and pull linux-balena-bootloader into the image?
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@mtoman I think it's cleaner to use virtual/bootloader as currently that will build u-boot. Not introducing a second virtual target simplifies things.
On other platforms where we might use u-boot as vendor bootloader and then the balena-bootloader we might need to use different virtual targets - so this might be a reason to also use separate targets here.
Just give it a thought and let me know what you prefer - I tend to prefer just using virtual/bootloader as it's either u-boot or balena bootloader in this case, but I can see both.
This is a separate version of the kernel that will be used as a second stage bootloader instead of u-boot. With just this patch nothing will use it yet but it will be ready for use when we start to switch. Change-type: patch Changelog-entry: Add recipe for balena bootloader Signed-off-by: Michal Toman <michalt@balena.io>
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This is a separate version of the kernel that will be used as a second stage bootloader instead of u-boot. With just this patch nothing will use it yet but it will be ready for use when we start to switch.