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| author | Tom Rini <[email protected]> | 2025-06-28 08:10:43 -0600 |
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| committer | Tom Rini <[email protected]> | 2025-06-28 08:10:43 -0600 |
| commit | 7027b445cc0bfb86204ecb1f1fe596f5895048d9 (patch) | |
| tree | f27d6f3425dea4bc984c6fede0e7ce73f5d17917 /doc/develop | |
| parent | 359e3012921f2fc2d43f3c4e320a752173f82b82 (diff) | |
| parent | e80baf06af50a4c8c6f41e9b67f9931f964ced87 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'efi-2025-07-rc6' of https://source.denx.de/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-efi
Pull request efi-2025-07-rc6
Documentation:
* Describe usage of U-Boot environment variables in extlinux.conf
UEFI:
* Add missing variable initialization in
efi_bootmgr_update_media_device_boot_option
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/develop')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/develop/distro.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/develop/distro.rst b/doc/develop/distro.rst index 1d2f9c4c32b..01efce40a29 100644 --- a/doc/develop/distro.rst +++ b/doc/develop/distro.rst @@ -92,6 +92,13 @@ That said, we have some differences to these documents, namely: * If ``-`` is passed as fdt argument and ``CONFIG_SUPPORT_PASSING_ATAGS`` is enabled, then no device tree will be used (legacy booting / pre-dtb kernel). +* The ``append`` string may use environment variables. For example, an + A/B boot setup could use ``append root=PARTLABEL=root_${bootslot}`` + to set the root filesystem to the right one for the selected slot, + assuming the ``bootslot`` environment variable is set before the + extlinux.conf file is processed, and the partition is labeled to + match. + See also doc/README.pxe under 'pxe file format'. One example extlinux.conf generated by the Fedora installer is:: |