[OpenWrt-Devel] [RFC] x86: use multiple profiles

[Daniel Golle]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 03:08:09PM -1000, Paul Spooren wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> the x86 been recently reworked (cb007a7bf6) and now it is easily possible to
> define multiple profiles. Currently only a `generic` profile is offered which
> builds mbr and efi grub images with a standard selection of packages (common
> device drivers).
> 
> I'd suggest to have multiple profiles for common x86 devices, including the
> correct drivers. An example is the APU2 board, which requires additional kmods
> to shine[0].
> 
> A first split could be to have mbr and efi images separated and the APU2 board.

+1
also for splitting EFI and MBR generic images, because EFI image
should have some different packages (efibootmgr, kmod-fs-efivars, ...)
installed which are useless when booting from MBR.


> 
> Please share your opinions.
> 
> Best,
> Paul
> 
> [0]: https://openwrt.org/toh/pcengines/apu2#kernel_modules 
> 

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