#1005744 u-boot-rpi: Please enable CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_LIMIT=y

#1005744#5
Date:
2022-02-14 10:43:41 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,


   * I'm searching a solution to implement a fallback kernel mechanism
     in case of boot failure. 'u-boot' has this ability, but it must be
     enabled. See some example at
https://github.com/balena-os/balena-raspberrypi/blob/master/layers/meta-balena-raspberrypi/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot/configs-Add-bootcount-configs-to-rpi-defconfigs.patch
   * From the debian sources, it appears this option is not selected. It
     would be great to at least test if enabling it permits to
     effectively work around boot failures.

#1005744#10
Date:
2022-02-14 22:51:58 UTC
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It would be ideal to get this addressed in upstream u-boot:

https://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot

... unless there is some particular reason this would only make sense in
the context of Debian? Not sure what that would be.


live well,
  vagrant