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| author | Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> | 2025-01-15 17:34:26 -0600 |
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| committer | Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> | 2025-01-15 19:27:14 -0600 |
| commit | 178f6ecb21fe12ada74a9a1a08093c812b15eea5 (patch) | |
| tree | 60dee6152b33cbd13f311875ce2fc8e9350a8c3d /doc/develop | |
| parent | e26a9ac4c6900cac2fa043ac50a3a3c038f4505d (diff) | |
| parent | a3d0fadca6b14f57477a4143334993daf52f89dc (diff) | |
Merge patch series "bootstd: Support recording images"
Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> says:
This series provides a way to keep track of the images used in bootstd,
including the type of each image.
At present this is sort-of handled by struct bootflow but in quite an
ad-hoc way. The structure has become quite large and is hard to query.
Future work will be able to reduce its size.
Ultimately the 'bootflow info' command may change to also show images as
a list, but that is left for later, as this series is already fairly
long. So for now, just introduce the concept and adjust bootstd to use
it, with a simple command to list the images.
This series includes various alist enhancements, to make use of this new
data structure a little easier.
[trini: Drop patch 18 and 19 for now due to size considerations]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241115231926.211999-1-sjg@chromium.org
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/develop')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/develop/bootstd/overview.rst | 21 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/develop/bootstd/overview.rst b/doc/develop/bootstd/overview.rst index a2913cd47be..e3ce97cc4f5 100644 --- a/doc/develop/bootstd/overview.rst +++ b/doc/develop/bootstd/overview.rst @@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ drivers are bound automatically. Command interface ----------------- -Three commands are available: +Four commands are available: `bootdev` Allows listing of available bootdevs, selecting a particular one and @@ -468,6 +468,25 @@ Three commands are available: Allow listing of available bootmethds, setting the order in which they are tried and bootmeth specific configuration. See :doc:`/usage/cmd/bootmeth` +`bootstd` + Allow access to standard boot itself, so far only for listing images across + all bootflows. See :doc:`/usage/cmd/bootstd` + +Images +------ + +Standard boot keeps track of images which can or have been loaded. These are +kept in a list attached to each bootflow. They can be listed using the +``bootstd images`` command (see :doc:`/usage/cmd/bootstd`). + +For now most bootmeths load their images when scanning. Over time, some may +adjust to load them only when needed, but in this case the images will still +be visible. + +Once a bootflow has been selected, images for those that are not selected can +potentially be dropped from the memory map. For now, this is not implemented. + + .. _BootflowStates: Bootflow states |