linux-rpi: Installing dtb-files into /boot v1 PROPOSED

Marian Buschsieweke: 1
 linux-rpi: Installing dtb-files into /boot

 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

[alpine-aports] [PATCH] linux-rpi: Installing dtb-files into /boot Export this patch

Instead of "/usr/lib/linux-${_abi_release}/" the dtb-files will be installed
into "/boot/", as these are required to be stored on the boot partition along
with the kernel, which is installed into "/boot/". With this change a kernel
update on a Pi will work fully automatically, as the user no longer needs to
take care to copy the .dtb-Files manually into her boot partition.
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 main/linux-rpi/APKBUILD | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi>

8 years ago

If this changes, we need to fix also the alpine-iso image building
scripts, and update-kernel script.

But I don't fully like this. The problem is that you can't then have
several kernels installed as the dtb's would overlap. It's not
currently a problem, but might become one.

I do understand the issue at hand. I wonder if we could symlink things,
or just ship config.txt so the dtbs are looked up from other place. Or
potentially just ship script that copies the latest dtbs to /boot.

But generally the dtbs and the kernel should match.

Next

diff --git a/main/linux-rpi/APKBUILD b/main/linux-rpi/APKBUILD
index 80183d8b..bc94310 100644
--- a/main/linux-rpi/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/linux-rpi/APKBUILD
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ _package() {
 	local _install
 	case "$CARCH" in
 	arm*)
-		local _dtbdir="$_outdir"/usr/lib/linux-${_abi_release}
+		local _dtbdir="$_outdir"/boot
 		cd "$srcdir"/build-$_buildflavor/arch/arm/boot/dts || return 1
 		mkdir -p "$_dtbdir"
 		find . -name "*.dtb" -type f | cpio -pdm "$_dtbdir"

Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi>

8 years ago

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