Re: [DistroKit] [PATCH] platform-v8a: kernelconfig: cleanup

[Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 11:43:18AM +0100, Jan Lübbe wrote:
> On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 16:57 +0100, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 04:01:36PM +0100, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> > > On 17.01.24 14:56, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> > > > -CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
> > > > -CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE=""
> > > > -# CONFIG_RD_GZIP is not set
> > > > -# CONFIG_RD_BZIP2 is not set
> > > > -# CONFIG_RD_LZMA is not set
> > > > -# CONFIG_RD_XZ is not set
> > > > -# CONFIG_RD_LZO is not set
> > > > -# CONFIG_RD_LZ4 is not set
> > > > -CONFIG_RD_ZSTD=y
> > > > +# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is not set
> > > 
> > > We want to keep CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD, so DistroKit systems can easily
> > > boot common distros like Debian that ship with an initramfs.
> > 
> > I was not aware that this is a use-case for DistroKit. I'm not sure how
> > that is supposed to work but fine.
> 
> On some boards, we've configured barebox's fastboot to allow upload of kernel,
> initramfs and oftree to ramfs. That way, one can quickly boot a small test setup
> via USB (such as those produced by kernelci). There's no need to write anything
> to flash, which would take time and potentially overwrite another useful rootfs.
> 
> In the medium term, I'd like to have fastboot configured this way on all
> DistroKit boards with USB OTG, so that one can quickly boot a multi-arch kernel
> on many boards.

Thanks for the clarification. It enabled again in the v2 of the patch.

Regards,
Michael

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