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

[Joel Wirāmu Pauling]

Related;

would be nice to have a supported atomic update method (rollforward/back)
and/or adapt sysupgrade/opkg to cope with full sys-upgrade style opperation.

Fedora CoreOS and OSTree may be a possible inspiration point. Either way I
am getting tired of need to have to stand up a new VM - clone config/opkg
update and then switch over from running VM as being the only decent way of
doing sysupgrades on x86 targets.

-Joel

On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 10:02, Daniel Golle <daniel at makrotopia.org> wrote:

> 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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