Re: How to build and support GRUB for Beaglebone Black?

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Andrei Borzenkov:
> How do you start GRUB in the first place? On U-Boot platforms GRUB
> cannot be run without U-Boot at all (it relies on U-Boot API for
> disk/net IO), so the simplest way to get back to U-Boot is to exit GRUB :)
> 
> Otherwise please explain in more details how you build and start GRUB on
> this platform.

I built grub under this configuration (GRUB for U-Boot platforms):

        ./autogen.sh

        ./configure \
                --with-platform="uboot" \
                --target="arm" \
                --disable-efiemu \
                --enable-mm-debug \
                --enable-nls \
                --enable-device-mapper \
                --enable-cache-stats \
                --enable-boot-time \
                --enable-grub-mkfont \
                --enable-grub-mount \
                --prefix="/usr" \
                --bindir="/usr/bin" \
                --sbindir="/usr/bin" \
                --mandir="/usr/share/man" \
                --infodir="/usr/share/info" \
                --datarootdir="/usr/share" \
                --sysconfdir="/etc" \
                --program-prefix="" \
                --with-bootdir="/boot" \
                --with-grubdir="grub" \
                --disable-silent-rules \
                --disable-werror

        make


Those configurations comes from our grub's PKGBUILD [0] and our patch to
detect device tree folder [1]. Those files were created to build grub
for Parabola.

BTW, i created 2 U-Boot packages, the first one called
uboot-beaglebone-linux-libre to start up U-Boot without GRUB for our
linux-libre package. Here are the PKGBUILD [2] and a custom patch with
our custom modifications [3] based on uboot-beaglebone from Arch ARM
[4][5]. It was tested and works well in Parabola, also we put a
announcement [6] about it.

Note: we put linux-libre as suffix in our uboot-beaglebone package for
each specific kernel available in Parabola (eg.
uboot-beaglebone-linux-libre-lts for linux-libre-lts) because our kernel
images use custom names (eg. vmlinuz-linux-libre-grsec) in comparison to
Arch ARM (eg zImage for all kernels) to allow for 2 or more kernels in
the same system once we add GRUB compatibility for the future.

The second one is called uboot-grub-beaglebone, this uboot package was
created to start GRUB in ARMv7, it was based on
uboot-beaglebone-linux-libre. Here are our PKGBUILD [7] and patch [8]
for this package.

Otherwise, we've created a install file to install GRUB automatically
after installing [9], it was based on uboot-beaglebone-linux-libre too [10]

[0]:https://projects.parabola.nu/abslibre.git/plain/libre/grub/PKGBUILD
[1]:https://projects.parabola.nu/abslibre.git/tree/libre/grub/grub-10_linux-20_linux_xen-detect-devicetree-dir.patch
[2]:https://projects.parabola.nu/abslibre.git/plain/libre/uboot-beaglebone-linux-libre/PKGBUILD
[3]:https://projects.parabola.nu/abslibre.git/plain/libre/uboot-beaglebone-linux-libre/0001-parabola-arm-modifications.patch
[4]:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/master/alarm/uboot-beaglebone/PKGBUILD
[5]:https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/blob/master/alarm/uboot-beaglebone/0001-arch-linux-arm-modifications.patch
[6]:https://www.parabola.nu/news/parabola-supports-armv7/
[7]:https://projects.parabola.nu/abslibre.git/plain/libre-testing/uboot-grub-beaglebone/PKGBUILD
[8]:https://projects.parabola.nu/abslibre.git/plain/libre-testing/uboot-grub-beaglebone/0001-parabola-arm-modifications+grub-support.patch
[9]:https://projects.parabola.nu/abslibre.git/plain/libre-testing/uboot-grub-beaglebone/uboot-grub-beaglebone.install
[10]:https://projects.parabola.nu/abslibre.git/plain/libre/uboot-beaglebone-linux-libre/uboot-beaglebone-linux-libre.install

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