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From: Pablo Sebastián Greco pablo@fliagreco.com.ar Sent: Friday May 21st, 2021 13:20 To: Conversations around CentOS on ARM hardware arm-dev@centos.org; mark mark@havak.nl Subject: Re: [Arm-dev] Consider updating uboot-tools
On 20/5/21 14:29, mark wrote:
Hello list (maintainer of uboot-tools),
I'd like to bring a nice enhancement of u-boot to you attention; looks like with commit (1) u-boot will call the efi boot manager before
falling back to the default removable-media location:
EFI/BOOT on the (fat32) efi partition
If I understand correctly this would take care of the fedora-path patch
issue still carried in CentOS u-boot.
As a matter of fact fedora dropped the uefi-use-Fedora-specific-path-name.patch
(2)
As per subject: IMHO this is a extra incentive to update the fairly old
uboot-tools :)
(1) https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/commit/f3866909e35074ea6f50226d40487a180de1...
(2) https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/uboot-tools/c/6209cab21ad85061b66d6be412c...
Hello Mark,
Updating uboot has been in my to-do list for a while and it keeps being delayed due to lack of time. My main problem is that I try to build it for 7 and 8, armhfp/aarch64 and there are some tools that I need to backport from Fedora to correctly do that.
el8 aarch64 is a bit problematic, the now quite popular aarch64(Rockchip) rk3399 needs a arm 32bit cross compiler, until now used a hack to pull it from epel-7 as it is not present in epel-8. Recently rebuild the cross-toolchian from FC29 (cross-gcc-8.1.1-3) as this fits the major versioning of binutils 2.30.x .
Also the device tree compiler in el8 does not ship the python3 wrappers needed to build uboot-tools, Hence did rebuild dtc with the python3 wrapper packaged.
Again, as far as I know the above only applies to el8.
I have some PoC tools from a few months ago that I'll try to revive, we'll see how that goes.
Let me know if I can be of some help here!
Thanks. Pablo.