From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Seiderer Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 19:20:03 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] rpi-firmware: do not rename startup files In-Reply-To: References: <20200624115009.15561-1-sveyret@gmail.com> <20200624165405.GA20645@scaer> <20200625182319.4cec8d94@gmx.net> Message-ID: <20200625192003.59506a9c@gmx.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello St?phane, On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 18:38:02 +0200, St?phane Veyret wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Le jeu. 25 juin 2020 ? 18:23, Peter Seiderer a ?crit : > > > I think we should instead force the name of the startup files in the > > > config.txt (in package/rpi-firmware/config.txt): > > > > > > start_file=start.elf > > > fixup_file=fixup.dat > > > > Or one step further, copy the start/fixup file verbatim and only change the > > start_file/fixup_file entry in config.txt (with the advantage to make it > > transparent which files are installed/in-use)... > > If the file name is already the appropriate one (this is the first > version of my patch), using start_file and fixup_file is useless. And > I don't feel it is a good idea to set start_file and fixup_file if the > files already have expected names, because using these options is > discouraged: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt/boot.md. The options are not discouraged, but 'advanced options' and should be handled with care ;-) The advantage of the explicit start_file/fixup_file entries is that it is clear/determined which files are used (instead of relaying on the RPi 'magic' depending on the combination of other options).... Regards, Peter