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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH OSSTEST v4 11/13] Debian: Create boot.scr with a suffix and copy to boot.scr
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 12:27:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1421843255.13271.26.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21695.38618.254300.671985@mariner.uk.xensource.com>

On Wed, 2015-01-21 at 12:08 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("[PATCH OSSTEST v4 11/13] Debian: Create boot.scr with a suffix and copy to boot.scr"):
> > This ensures that we always have a boot script to boot at least the
> > native Debian kernel and Xen available, even after multiple iterations
> > of installation, which is handy when debugging a system.
> 
> I confess I don't quite see how this works, due to my lack of
> understanding of u-boot et al's plumbing, but I see nothing to object
> to.

u-boot essential does "load $script_addr $boot_script ; source
$script_addr", all this does is mean one can conveniently do "setenv
boot_script boot.scr.$foo; boot" (for foo in deb, nat, xen) to override
the default of boot.scr if you've borked it somehow.

> Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>

Thanks.
Ian.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-21 12:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-21 11:17 [PATCH OSSTEST v4 00/13] support for ARM32 arndale and cubietruck platforms Ian Campbell
2015-01-21 11:18 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v4 01/13] make-flight: Run a basic test on each arm platform Ian Campbell
2015-01-21 11:18 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v4 02/13] Osstest/PDU: Add eth008.pm method to control the ARM rack PDU Ian Campbell
2015-01-21 11:43   ` Ian Jackson
2015-01-21 11:18 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v4 03/13] Osstest/Debian: Install dtbs into target filesystem in /boot/dtbs Ian Campbell
2015-01-21 11:44   ` Ian Jackson
2015-01-21 11:18 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v4 04/13] Osstest/Debian: Support for loading an FDT from u-boot script Ian Campbell
2015-01-21 11:18 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v4 05/13] Osstest/Debian: Refactor setting of dom0 kernel command line Ian Campbell
2015-01-21 11:47   ` Ian Jackson
2015-01-21 11:18 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v4 06/13] Osstest/Debian: support adding a rootdelay property to bootargs Ian Campbell
2015-01-21 11:58   ` Ian Jackson
2015-01-21 13:07     ` Ian Campbell
2015-01-21 16:18       ` Ian Jackson
2015-01-21 11:18 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v4 07/13] Osstest/Debian: Remove hardcoded addresses from boot.scr Ian Campbell
2015-01-21 12:00   ` Ian Jackson
2015-01-21 12:25     ` Ian Campbell
2015-01-21 11:18 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v4 08/13] Osstest/Debian: Add "clk_ignore_unused" to default command line Ian Campbell
2015-01-21 12:01   ` Ian Jackson
2015-01-21 12:02   ` Ian Jackson
2015-01-21 13:12     ` Ian Campbell
2015-01-21 16:18       ` Ian Jackson
2015-01-21 11:18 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v4 09/13] Osstest/Debian: Add 0x prefix to $filesize Ian Campbell
2015-01-21 12:04   ` Ian Jackson
2015-01-21 12:22     ` Ian Campbell
2015-01-21 15:08       ` Ian Jackson
2015-01-21 11:18 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v4 10/13] ts-kernel-build: Adjust kernel .config to work on the arndale boards Ian Campbell
2015-01-21 12:05   ` Ian Jackson
2015-01-21 13:20     ` Ian Campbell
2015-01-21 14:04       ` Ian Campbell
2015-01-21 16:20       ` Ian Jackson
2015-01-21 16:31         ` Ian Campbell
2015-01-21 16:36           ` Ian Jackson
2015-01-21 16:50             ` Ian Campbell
2015-01-21 17:01               ` Ian Jackson
2015-01-21 11:18 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v4 11/13] Debian: Create boot.scr with a suffix and copy to boot.scr Ian Campbell
2015-01-21 12:08   ` Ian Jackson
2015-01-21 12:27     ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2015-01-21 11:18 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v4 12/13] TestSupport: replace power_cycle_timeout with power_cycle_sleep Ian Campbell
2015-01-21 12:09   ` Ian Jackson
2015-01-21 11:18 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v4 13/13] Debian: create boot.scr.nat when installing Xen on u-boot Ian Campbell
2015-01-21 12:12   ` Ian Jackson
2015-01-29  9:54 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v4 00/13] support for ARM32 arndale and cubietruck platforms Ian Campbell
2015-01-29 11:25   ` Ian Jackson
2015-01-29 11:44     ` Ian Campbell
2015-01-29 11:54       ` Ian Campbell

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