[PATCH v2 1/2] Add support for extlinux.conf

[Ahmad Fatoum]

Hi,

On 5/5/26 2:44 PM, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> barebox at Diasom DS-RK3568-SOM-EVB:/ global

> Loading ARM aarch64 Linux/EFI image '/mnt/mmc1.2/boot/extlinux/../vmlinuz'
> Camera IMX662 detected.
> commandline: console=ttyS2,1500000n8 root=LABEL=ROOT ro
> systemd.unit=setup.target quiet splash  root=/dev/mmcblk1p3
> systemd.machine_id=181af2816b4c6b0aef77068e0ccc69ad
> Loaded kernel to 0x0a400000, devicetree at 0x000000000fb49000
> nv variables modified, saving them
> I/TC: Secondary CPU 1 initializing
> I/TC: Secondary CPU 1 switching to normal world boot
> I/TC: Secondary CPU 2 initializing
> I/TC: Secondary CPU 2 switching to normal world boot
> I/TC: Secondary CPU 3 initializing
> I/TC: Secondary CPU 3 switching to normal world boot
> 
> Now it works!

Great. I think with the rest of my feedback integrated, the v3 should be
good to go.

Thanks,
Ahmad

> 
> вт, 5 мая 2026 г. в 15:22, Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>:
>>
>> Hello Alexander,
>>
>> On 5/5/26 2:19 PM, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
>>> barebox at Diasom DS-RK3568-SOM-EVB:/ global
>>> * bootm.~appendroot: true
>>
>> This should be bootm.appendroot: 1.
>>
>>> bootm.~appendroot: true, but now is ever not added to the cmdline.
>>
>> The tilde is just an implementation detail in common/bootm.c. You should
>> just global.bootm.appendroot as before.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ahmad
>>
>>>
>>> вт, 5 мая 2026 г. в 13:49, Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>:
>>>>
>>>> Hello Alexander,
>>>>
>>>> On 5/5/26 12:47 PM, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
>>>>> Hello Ahmad.
>>>>>
>>>>> ...
>>>>>>> +     if (e->append) {
>>>>>>> +             char *append;
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +             /*
>>>>>>> +              * The same rootfs image may be launched from eMMC or SD card.
>>>>>>> +              * Remove any hardcoded root= parameter from "append" to avoid
>>>>>>> +              * conflicts, then let barebox automatically add the correct
>>>>>>> +              * root= (via global.bootm.appendroot) based on the boot device.
>>>>>>> +              */
>>>>>>> +             if (data.appendroot)
>>>>>>> +                     append = remove_param(e->append, "ROOT=");
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> I thus have a question to you: What happens if you drop remove_param()
>>>>>> completely? Sure we will have two root=, but the later gets precedence,
>>>>>> so your use case would continue to work without giving users a wrong
>>>>>> expectation.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, the second one takes priority.
>>>>> The second one is the one added via extlinux.conf APPEND option.
>>>>> In our case we need the first parameter, i.e. which comes from barebox
>>>>> when global.bootm.appendroot is toggled on.
>>>>
>>>> Ack. Please check the series I Cc'd you on, which ensures that
>>>> global.bootm.appendroot applies _after_ extlinux.conf APPEND.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Ahmad
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>
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