It becomes a common case that the Kernel is loaded from the filesystem
which later becomes the rootfs. This adds a possibility to let bootm
automatically append the root= option to the kernel command line. This
is done when global.bootm.appendroot is true.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/user/booting-linux.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++
commands/bootm.c | 1 +
common/bootm.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
include/boot.h | 5 +++++
4 files changed, 37 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/user/booting-linux.rst b/Documentation/user/booting-linux.rst
index 98628fa..f26299e 100644
--- a/Documentation/user/booting-linux.rst
+++ b/Documentation/user/booting-linux.rst
@@ -99,6 +99,20 @@ with addpart to the Kernel:
Kernel command line: mtdparts=physmap-flash.0:512k(bootloader),512k(env),4M(kernel),-(root);
mxc_nand:1M(bootloader),1M(env),4M(kernel),-(root)
+Creating root= options for the Kernel
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+It's a common case that the Linux Kernel is loaded from a filesystem
+that later becomes the root filesystem for the Kernel. For several
+filesystems barebox can automatically append a suitable root= option
+to the Kernel command line. This is done when ``global.bootm.appendroot``
+is true. How the root= option is appended depends on the device type
+and filesystem the kernel is booted from. For disk like devices (SD/MMC,
+ATA) the partition UUID will be used, the root= option will be something
+like ``root=PARTUUID=deadbeef-1``. For UBIFS fileystems it will be
+``root=ubi0:volname ubi.mtd=mtdpartname rootfstype=ubifs``. NFS
+filesystems will result in ``root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=ip:/path/to/nfsroot,v3,tcp``.
+The ``v3,tcp`` part is configurable in ``global.linux.rootnfsopts``.
The boot command
----------------
diff --git a/commands/bootm.c b/commands/bootm.c
index 7a19fa2..bfec62c 100644
--- a/commands/bootm.c
+++ b/commands/bootm.c
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ BAREBOX_MAGICVAR_NAMED(global_bootm_initrd, global.bootm.initrd, "bootm default
BAREBOX_MAGICVAR_NAMED(global_bootm_initrd_loadaddr, global.bootm.initrd.loadaddr, "bootm default initrd loadaddr");
BAREBOX_MAGICVAR_NAMED(global_bootm_oftree, global.bootm.oftree, "bootm default oftree");
BAREBOX_MAGICVAR_NAMED(global_bootm_verify, global.bootm.verify, "bootm default verify level");
+BAREBOX_MAGICVAR_NAMED(global_bootm_appendroot, global.bootm.appendroot, "Add root= option to Kernel to mount rootfs from the device the Kernel comes from");
static struct binfmt_hook binfmt_uimage_hook = {
.type = filetype_uimage,
diff --git a/common/bootm.c b/common/bootm.c
index 6d22aab..cad8c73 100644
--- a/common/bootm.c
+++ b/common/bootm.c
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ static struct image_handler *bootm_find_handler(enum filetype filetype,
return NULL;
}
+static int bootm_appendroot;
+
void bootm_data_init_defaults(struct bootm_data *data)
{
data->initrd_address = UIMAGE_INVALID_ADDRESS;
@@ -58,6 +60,7 @@ void bootm_data_init_defaults(struct bootm_data *data)
getenv_ul("global.bootm.initrd.loadaddr", &data->initrd_address);
data->initrd_file = getenv_nonempty("global.bootm.initrd");
data->verify = bootm_get_verify_mode();
+ data->appendroot = bootm_appendroot;
}
static enum bootm_verify bootm_verify_mode = BOOTM_VERIFY_HASH;
@@ -576,6 +579,18 @@ int bootm_boot(struct bootm_data *bootm_data)
}
}
+ if (bootm_data->appendroot) {
+ char *rootarg;
+
+ rootarg = path_get_linux_rootarg(data->os_file);
+ if (!IS_ERR(rootarg)) {
+ printf("Adding \"%s\" to Kernel commandline\n", rootarg);
+ globalvar_add_simple("linux.bootargs.bootm.appendroot",
+ rootarg);
+ free(rootarg);
+ }
+ }
+
printf("\nLoading %s '%s'", file_type_to_string(os_type),
data->os_file);
if (os_type == filetype_uimage &&
@@ -621,6 +636,7 @@ err_out:
if (data->of_root_node && data->of_root_node != of_get_root_node())
of_delete_node(data->of_root_node);
+ globalvar_remove("linux.bootargs.bootm.appendroot");
free(data->os_file);
free(data->oftree_file);
free(data->initrd_file);
@@ -634,6 +650,7 @@ static int bootm_init(void)
globalvar_add_simple("bootm.image", NULL);
globalvar_add_simple("bootm.image.loadaddr", NULL);
globalvar_add_simple("bootm.oftree", NULL);
+ globalvar_add_simple_bool("bootm.appendroot", &bootm_appendroot);
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CMD_BOOTM_INITRD)) {
globalvar_add_simple("bootm.initrd", NULL);
globalvar_add_simple("bootm.initrd.loadaddr", NULL);
diff --git a/include/boot.h b/include/boot.h
index 0198cc8..8fcbb7f 100644
--- a/include/boot.h
+++ b/include/boot.h
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ struct bootm_data {
enum bootm_verify verify;
bool force;
bool dryrun;
+ /*
+ * appendroot - if true, try to add a suitable root= Kernel option to
+ * mount the rootfs from the same device as the Kernel comes from.
+ */
+ bool appendroot;
unsigned long initrd_address;
unsigned long os_address;
unsigned long os_entry;
--
2.8.0.rc3
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