Re: [DistroKit] [PATCH v6 0/7] v7a: add redundant update support via RAUC

[Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 11:01:05AM +0200, Roland Hieber wrote:
> This is v6, even though the subject doesn't say so… 😬
> 
>  - Roland

FWIW, this was merged in master and DistroKit-2023.09.0.

 - Roland

> 
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 10:57:57AM +0200, Roland Hieber wrote:
> > With this patch series, the first v7a platforms (beaglebone black,
> > riotboard, rpi3, qemu-vexpress) gain support for redundant boot on two
> > root partitions which can be updated with RAUC.
> > 
> > Changelog:
> > 
> > PATCH v5 -> v6:
> > * rebase to current next branch, commit 771add4f5cc1f5a4b3c7
> >   (2023-08-25, Juergen Borleis: "v7a: barebox: enable loading kernel,
> >   dtb and initrd via fastboot")
> > * enable PTXCONF_MTD_UTILS_LSMTD (feedback by Alexander Dahl)
> > 
> > PATCH v4 -> v5:
> > * rebase to current next branch, commit 6df4aa6726e16b6a889c
> >   (2023-08-17, Robert Schwebel: "Revert "ptxconfig: disable Y2038
> >   support, broken on MIPS""), which already includes the first half of
> >   our v4 series
> > * enable MTD and UBI/UBIFS tools
> > * please the QA checker regarding missing kernel features for RAUC
> > * image-rauc: don't warn about menuconfig statement without prompt
> > 
> > PATCH v3 -> v4:
> > * rebase to current next branch
> >   * new ptxdist version, so host-ptx-code-signing-dev now pulls in
> >     host-python3-* dependencies via host-extract-cert and host-meson
> > * move platforms/image-rauc.in to platforms/image-rauc.deps.in because
> >   we only want to add dependencies, not overwrite the whole file
> > 
> > PATCH v2 -> v3: https://lore.distrokit.org/distrokit/20230427100134.2934937-1-rhi@pengutronix.de
> > * Ahmad notified me off-line that beaglebone and riotboard were using
> >   the "circular" backend, but since state lives on the eMMC, the
> >   "direct" backend is better suited.
> > 
> > PATCH v1 -> v2: https://lore.distrokit.org/distrokit/20230426201414.2044409-1-rhi@pengutronix.de
> > * rebase to current master (PTXdist 2023.04.0)
> > * new patch: "platforms: revert to default systemd loglevel"
> > * new patch: "ptxconfig: enable more tools for debugging" (which also
> >   enables curl, which was previously in the patch enabling RAUC)
> > * make use of barebox's CONFIG_EXTERNAL_DTS_FRAGMENTS to include a DTS
> >   fragment for the state variables and the board-specific backends
> >   instead of patching them into the barebox device trees
> >   (feedback by Ahmad Fatoum)
> > * udev: use tr instead of xargs/printf in of_base_compatible
> >   (feedback by Michael Olbrich)
> > * udev: add a fallback /dev/disk/by-usage/data symlink for boards not
> >   targeted by this series
> > * udev: add missing 'GOTO="rauc_partitions_end"' at the end of each
> >   block so that the symlink settings are not overwritten by the
> >   following blocks
> > * udev: fix partition mapping for RIoTBoard; for some reason the SD card
> >   is now /dev/mmcblk2 instead of /dev/mmcblk0
> > * kernel:
> >   * enable network block device support (BLK_DEV_NBD), needed for RAUC
> >     HTTPS streaming
> >   * enable SQUASHFS_FILE_DIRECT and SQUASHFS_DECOMP_MULTI for better
> >     performance (feedback by Jan Lübbe)
> >   * enable SQUASHFS_LZ4, SQUASHFS_XZ and SQUASHFS_ZSTD which makes it
> >     easy to change the bundle compression later. Currently, genimage
> >     generates zlib-compressed bundles. (feedback by Jan Lübbe)
> > * rauc: only allow installing verity bundles (feedback by Jan Lübbe)
> > * new patch: "image-rauc: fork config from PTXdist 2023.04.0"
> > * new patch: "image-rauc: use ext4 rootfs instead of tar.gz"
> >   (I discussed with Enrico and Jan offline whether it is useful to have
> >   this change in upstream PTXdist, but the RAUC image config will be
> >   rather specific to the BSP anyway, and will be forked to the BSP by
> >   most users.)
> > * new patch: "v7a: run: start with barebox by default"
> > 
> > The datapartition clean-up didn't make it yet in this series. RAUC works
> > without it, and I'll send a separate series once I've figured it out.
> > 
> > Also I disregarded Marco's comment about moving the projectroot stuff
> > to config/platform-v7a/, since it's not really v7a-specific and can be
> > re-used on other platforms too when those want to gain RAUC support.
> > 
> > PATCH v1: https://lore.distrokit.org/distrokit/20230212221449.1644628-1-rhi@pengutronix.de
> > 
> > Roland Hieber (7):
> >   enable MTD and UBI tools
> >   rauc: add initial support
> >   silence QA checks regarding missing kernel features for RAUC
> >   v7a: enable RAUC bundle creation
> >   image-rauc: fork config file from PTXdist 2023.08.0
> >   image-rauc: use ext4 rootfs instead of tar.gz
> >   v7a: run: start with barebox by default
> > 
> >  config/images/rauc.config                     |  22 ++
> >  configs/platform-mips/kernelconfig            |  92 +++++++-
> >  configs/platform-mips/kernelconfig-ar9331     |  92 +++++++-
> >  .../platform-mips/kernelconfig-ar9331.diff    |   2 +-
> >  configs/platform-mips/kernelconfig-malta      |  11 +-
> >  configs/platform-mips/kernelconfig-malta.diff |  61 +++---
> >  configs/platform-mips/platformconfig          |  27 ++-
> >  configs/platform-mipsel/kernelconfig          |  92 +++++++-
> >  .../platform-mipsel/kernelconfig-malta.diff   |  47 ++--
> >  configs/platform-mipsel/platformconfig        |  27 ++-
> >  configs/platform-rpi1/kernelconfig            | 202 +++++++++++++++++-
> >  configs/platform-rpi1/platformconfig          |  25 ++-
> >  configs/platform-v7a/platformconfig           |  37 +++-
> >  configs/platform-v7a/run                      |   2 +-
> >  configs/platform-v7a_noneon/kernelconfig      | 108 +++++++++-
> >  configs/platform-v7a_noneon/platformconfig    |  27 ++-
> >  configs/platform-v8a/kernelconfig             |  64 +++++-
> >  configs/platform-v8a/platformconfig           |  24 ++-
> >  configs/platform-x86_64/kernelconfig          | 173 ++++++++++++++-
> >  configs/platform-x86_64/platformconfig        |  27 ++-
> >  configs/ptxconfig                             | 133 +++++++++++-
> >  platforms/image-rauc.deps.in                  |   6 +
> >  projectroot/etc/rauc/system.conf              |  17 ++
> >  .../lib/systemd/system/rauc-mark-good.service |  14 ++
> >  24 files changed, 1206 insertions(+), 126 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 config/images/rauc.config
> >  create mode 100644 platforms/image-rauc.deps.in
> >  create mode 100644 projectroot/etc/rauc/system.conf
> >  create mode 100644 projectroot/usr/lib/systemd/system/rauc-mark-good.service
> > 
> > -- 
> > 2.39.2
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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