Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v3 1/2] u-boot: make initial environment binary image

["Mathieu Dubois-Briand" <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>]

On Tue Dec 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM CET, Mathieu Dubois-Briand wrote:
> On Fri Nov 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM CET, Pierre-loup GOSSE via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
>> From: Pierre-Loup GOSSE <pierre-loup.gosse@smile.fr>
>>
>> Build the U-Boot initial environment binary image if
>> UBOOT_INITIAL_ENV_BINARY is set to "1". The environment partition size
>> (in bytes, hexadecimal or decimal) must be defined using
>> UBOOT_INITIAL_ENV_BINARY_SIZE.
>>
>> If U-Boot environment redundancy is enabled,
>> UBOOT_INITIAL_ENV_BINARY_REDUND must be set to "1".
>>
>> The resulting binary can be flashed using WIC at the environment offset,
>> overriding any existing environment if present, for example:
>>
>>   part --source rawcopy --sourceparams="file=u-boot-initial-env-sd.bin" --ondisk sda --no-table --offset 4096
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pierre-Loup GOSSE <pierre-loup.gosse@smile.fr>
>> ---
>> Note: Once merged, a patch with the new variables will be submitted to the
>>       documentation mailing list.
>>
>> changes in v2:
>> - fix uboot_deploy_config (builddir was missing)
>>
>> no changes in v3
>> ---
>
> Hi Pierre-loup,
>
> After the last comments I took your series for testing, but got the
> following error during selftest:
>
> 2025-12-16 11:06:28,209 - oe-selftest - INFO - uboot.UBootTest.test_uboot_initial_env_binary (subunit.RemotedTestCase)
> 2025-12-16 11:06:28,210 - oe-selftest - INFO -  ... FAIL
> ...
> 2025-12-16 11:06:05,623 - oe-selftest - INFO - testtools.testresult.real._StringException: Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/uboot.py", line 152, in test_uboot_config_initial_env_binary
>     self.assertExists(uboot_initial_env_binary_path)
>   File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/case.py", line 251, in assertExists
>     raise self.failureException(msg)
> AssertionError: '/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/build-st-1145752/tmp/work/qemux86_64-poky-linux/u-boot/2025.10/deploy-u-boot/u-boot-initial-env-test.bin' does not exist
>
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/35/builds/2838
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/48/builds/2732
>
> Can you have a look at this issue?
>
> Thanks,
> Mathieu

OK, it looks like the issue is somewhere between my keyboard and my
chair. Forget this issue for now...

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Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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