Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] state: generic devicetree-overlay based state node injection

[Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>]

Hi,

On 8/25/26 5:02 PM, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> On 8/25/26 5:05 AM, chalianis1@gmail.com wrote:
>> so a real state.dtb collides with whatever root the EFI
>> payload already registered at boot and is rejected with -EBUSY, and a
>> rejected tree's /aliases entries never reach the global alias cache
>> of_alias_get() relies on either.
> 
> This argumentation follows from a bug, so it doesn't say anything to the
> merit of this new feature.

I have now read through the series and my thoughts are that applying
overlays to the barebox live tree from outside can be useful (I wouldn't
limit it to state), but:

- it needs better argumentation what it allows that is not feasible with
fragments
- it needs some way to account for multi-image

I am going to send out my EFI-payload-state-via-fragment series soon and
I am interested to hear your thoughts on it.

Thanks,
Ahmad

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