Buildroot currently has all of the needed packages to use Mender as the primary
update system. However, there isn't any documentation or examples now that
provide a starting point for users. This lack of documentation makes setting up
a Mender based update system difficult and time-consuming.
Provided in this patch series is a mender_x86_64_efi_defconfig of which sets up
an x86_64 EFI based build that is ready to flash to a USB pen drive or use in a
QEMU environment. The system partition schema comprises of two equally sized
root partitions and a data partition that mounts to /var/lib/mender as a
persistent data store partition.
There is a board/mender/readme.txt provided, which gives users documentation on
how to flash the built image or boot the image using QEMU as well.
The post-build and post-image-efi scripts also have four options:
-a --artifact-name:
- The name of the artifact, this is added to /etc/mender/artifact_info
-o --data-part-size:
- The data partition size.
-d --device-type
- The device-type used by mender to catagorize registered devices.
Signed-off-by: Adam Duskett <Aduskett@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikael Bourhis-Cloarec <mikael.bourhis@smile.fr>
[Romain: rebase on master (01.2022)
- update genimage-efi.cfg to use GPT partition table and genimage-15 syntax
- bump the kernel to 5.15.13
- Add host-libelf kernel dependency
- Use BR2_TARGET_GRUB2_BUILTIN_MODULES_EFI after commit 82d1e8c628
(boot/grub2: use none platform when building for host)
- Add regexp grub mandatory module for mender-grubenv
- remove startup.nsh from genimage-efi.cfg after commit 3efb5e31fc
(board, boot, package: remove usage of startup.nsh in EFI partition)]
Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@smile.fr>
[Arnout:
- abbreviate sizes and partition uuids, remove implicit ones in genimage.cfg
- change data partition uuid to Linux (instead of x86_64 rootfs)
- fix whitespace and shellcheck errors in scripts
- remove --generate-mender-image option, always create it
- remove empty directory and -O ^64bit when creating data fs
- remove redundant e2fsck
- add -serial stdio option to qemu call
- update kernel to current stable 5.18.14
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Adam Duskett