Draft: purism-librem5: use extlinux instead of u-boot script

This will simplify boot process and allow to boot with UUIDs

Draft because it depends on next boot-deploy release

CC @craftyguy @Newbyte @QC8086 @panzersajt @antonok (maintainers and testing team)

For testers: Using mrtest should be good enough, but if it doesn't work as intented it may break booting, so use clean installation or do a backup

CC @alistair23

By jenneron on 2023-07-23T17:07:09

added 2 commits

• cc5313c9 - purism-librem5: use extlinux instead of u-boot script
• e25bceb2 - DROPME: main/boot-deploy: upgrade to latest git

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By jenneron on 2023-07-23T17:08:12

added 2 commits

• 756c3381 - purism-librem5: use extlinux instead of u-boot script
• c44a4b86 - DROPME: main/boot-deploy: upgrade to latest git

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By jenneron on 2023-07-23T17:22:23

resolved all threads

By jenneron on 2023-07-23T17:22:51

This is great, thanks for submitting it! I assume (but personally haven't verified/asked yet) that dtb selection is automatic now within u-boot and no longer requires passing the appropriate dtb in the bootloader config? We need to make sure that the correct dtb is loaded on the right hw rev. @nytowl could probably tell us for sure :)

By clayton craft on 2023-07-23T17:27:28

Can confirm this is not working for me.

Tested on v23.06 and a fresh edge install. Librem 5 will not boot. Power button -> Green light -> Light off, device appears to hang indefinitely.

By Quade Curry on 2023-07-26T01:33:33

can you check whether /extlinux/extlinux.conf is present on pmOS_boot partition?

By jenneron on 2023-07-26T01:51:25

Yes, it is present.

By Quade Curry on 2023-07-26T01:51:25

Then I don't know what's wrong on our side, it may be something with U-Boot

By jenneron on 2023-07-26T02:04:23

Is there an image I can use to try this ?

By Angus Ainslie on 2023-11-19T18:55:15

added status::mr-stale label

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By * postmarketOS Bot on 2023-08-30T18:00:03

mentioned in issue #1531

By jenneron on 2023-10-12T19:20:56

mentioned in issue #2634

By clayton craft on 2024-03-05T00:41:20

Closing for now since no one seems to be interested in picking this up. I filed a new issue and referenced this patch so that it is hopefully easier for folks to find if they want to pick it up again.

#2634

By clayton craft on 2024-03-05T00:41:24

closed

@craftyguy i think the change here is fine, but we would need boot-deploy to copy subdirectories for dtbs. i think we tested extlinux only on armv7 before which doesn't have subdirectories

By jenneron on 2024-03-05T02:11:52