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From: Alexander Shiyan <eagle.alexander923@gmail.com>
To: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: add extlinux.conf support description
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:19:38 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP1tNvSv6EFTRVNAovG_PTTedM===Rw=qecGsTMJCysSO6hAbA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2a9c9062-621c-4d8d-bbb9-5f979a4da81d@pengutronix.de>

Hello Ahmad.

> On 4/16/26 3:45 PM, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Shiyan <eagle.alexander923@gmail.com>
>
> Thanks for adding documentation.
>
> I have been wanting to add bootloader spec support to openembedded-core
> to barebox can be used to boot Beaglebone black images generated by it,
> but with extlinux support in barebox that should work as well.
> I will surely give this a try in the future.
>
> Could I motivate you to add a self test that exercises the parser?
>
> Doesn't have to be anything extensive, see test/self/blspec.c for an
> example. It's basically adding a few configs into the barebox
> environment, calling bootentry_create_from_name() on the directory and
> then running some assertions.

I think this can be done later, so as not to bloat the patch series...



  reply	other threads:[~2026-04-24  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-16 13:45 [PATCH 1/2] Add support for extlinux.conf Alexander Shiyan
2026-04-16 13:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: add extlinux.conf support description Alexander Shiyan
2026-04-22  9:14   ` Ahmad Fatoum
2026-04-24  8:19     ` Alexander Shiyan [this message]
2026-04-22  9:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add support for extlinux.conf Ahmad Fatoum
2026-04-24  8:46   ` Alexander Shiyan
2026-04-24 14:53     ` Ahmad Fatoum
2026-04-27  8:58       ` Sascha Hauer
2026-04-27 17:34         ` Alexander Shiyan

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