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Bug#860304: flash-kernel: Incorrect installation path for dtbs



On 2017-05-26, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
> And thanks for being persistent.

Indeed, I've been working around this issue locally rather than doing
the right things by filing bugs and writing patches... :)


> Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> (2017-05-25):
>> In
>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/753871/
>> I suggested to change U-Boot environment variable fdtfile to
>> meson-gxbb-odroidc2.dtb for the Odroid C2.
>> 
>> Unfortunately this patch was not accepted.
>> 
>> So we will need flash-kernel to accommodate U-Boot having
>> a directory path in fdtfile. For the Odroid C2 this is:
>> fdtfile=amlogic/meson-gxbb-odroidc2.dtb
>> 
>> Kindly review the patch to flash-kernel I have proposed:
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=860304#20
>> 
>> Best regards
>> 
>> Heinrich Schuchardt
>
> vagrant, any opinion on this topic? Too little flash-kernel knowledge
> locally to decide on this.

ARM64 boards all appear to have the .dtb in a sub-dir, but the fun part
is u-boot may not consistantly include the subdir when setting the
fdtfile variable.

I think the best thing to do would be to install in both
/boot/dtbs/VERSION/FDTFILE and /boot/boot/dtbs/VERSION/SUBDIR/*.dtb, or
create symlinks (if supported by the filesystem) if the file is found in
a subdir... hopefully that won't require mangling the code too much;
I'll take a look at it... or feel free to beat me to it! :)


live well,
  vagrant

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