Re: Bringing Mobian closer to Debian

[Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>]

Hi,
On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 02:38:27PM +0200, Arnaud Ferraris wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 09/09/2021 à 06:29, Paul Wise a écrit :
> >> - initramfs scripts & hooks
> > 
> > Any examples?
> 
> Oh, I forgot that point! Here's the nastiest example I have:
> https://gitlab.com/mobian1/devices/oneplus6-tweaks/-/blob/master/tweaks/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-premount/mobian
> 
> This one is a workaround to the Android bootloader (at least on OnePlus
> 6) appending `root=...` and `ro` cmdline parameters to our own cmdline,
> effectively shadowing our chosen values for those and causing Mobian's
> boot process to fail.

flash-kernel has some machinery for something similar:

  https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/flash-kernel/-/blob/master/initramfs-tools/hooks/flash_kernel_set_root#L113

Maybe this can be extended?
 -- Guido

> 
> Cheers,
> Arnaud
>