Re: Understanding boot process.

From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
To: sig-arm@lists.ipfire.org
Subject: Re: Understanding boot process.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 11:31:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7A59E529-2FEB-401B-8E01-8C82962EF0E3@ipfire.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <175f4da243f.ac5db1e8157491.8173564156224748900@fkardame.com>

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We currently have a version of kernel 5.9 that we are testing and we will target to move to 5.10 as soon as it comes out.

I hope for a release early next year.

Best,
-Michael

P.S. Please do not forget to copy the list.

> On 23 Nov 2020, at 11:25, Furkan Salman <tech(a)fkardame.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello Michael,
> 
> Yes I see that EFI boot  is already provied in aarch64 image. 
> I am flashing rockpie and using rock64 dtb or I will try it with rockpie itself this time and report back to you by tonight or tomorrow max. 
> 
> When do you plan to move to kernel 5.4 ?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ---- On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 14:21:43 +0300 michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org wrote ----
> 
> Hello Furkan, 
> 
> Thanks for signing up and posting :) 
> 
> I suppose we are talking about ARM64: 
> 
> We currently only support systems that use EFI. If there is an EFI BIOS, it will launch GRUB and hopefully return all required configuration to the kernel. 
> 
> > On 22 Nov 2020, at 15:00, Furkan Salman <tech(a)fkardame.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > Hello IPFire Team, 
> > 
> > I would like to understand how do you get the grub to work on the arm images. 
> > 
> > I have RockPiE which is not supported by your project but I am willing to add support it by myself. 
> > 
> > Afaik I should be able to get it to boot with other Rk3328 board dtb i have its mainline uboot. 
> > 
> > It seems to get stuck on grub after selecting the ipfire version it doesnt boot further. 
> 
> Do you have any output from the bootloader/kernel? 
> 
> > I suspect that the bootscripts are designed for a specific arm board as every board will have different addr for kernel load. 
> 
> No, we only support a generic way to boot, because it is simply not feasible for us to provide hundreds of different images for all ARM boards out there. 
> 
> > Where can I find the source code for the boot script package? 
> 
> https://git.ipfire.org/?p=ipfire-2.x.git;a=blob;f=lfs/grub;h=811c2f745e267e5ff6c246b66bc5f2196e12b780;hb=HEAD 
> 
> This is how we install GRUB on x86 and ARM64. 
> 
> Best, 
> -Michael 
> 
> > 
> > Thank you. 
> > 
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