From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Delivery-date: Tue, 03 Jan 2023 09:31:57 +0100 Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([2001:67c:670:201:290:27ff:fe1d:cc33]) by lore.white.stw.pengutronix.de with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1pCciD-000ETQ-Nk for lore@lore.pengutronix.de; Tue, 03 Jan 2023 09:31:56 +0100 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=metis.ext.pengutronix.de) by metis.ext.pengutronix.de with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pCciC-0000iw-2U; Tue, 03 Jan 2023 09:31:56 +0100 Received: from ptz.office.stw.pengutronix.de ([2a0a:edc0:0:900:1d::77] helo=[127.0.0.1]) by metis.ext.pengutronix.de with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pCci3-0000im-OZ; Tue, 03 Jan 2023 09:31:47 +0100 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2023 09:31:46 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.5.0 From: Ahmad Fatoum To: BAUER Bernd , "RAUC@pengutronix.de" References: Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [RAUC] Non reduntant bootloader update X-BeenThere: rauc@pengutronix.de X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: RAUC Project - Discussion List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "RAUC" X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: rauc-bounces@pengutronix.de X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on metis.ext.pengutronix.de); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Hello Bernd, On 03.01.23 09:17, BAUER Bernd wrote: > Hi! > > I have an IMX8MN system and want to use RAUC to update the bootloader. > The BL is on the EMMC (no partition) and is not redundant. Why would you not place it into the dedicated hardware boot partitions that your eMMC already has? > Does this work with Rauc at all? eMMC boot partition are better because they provide power-fail safe update, but you could use the eMMC user area with RAUC as well. Easiest way is to just place a MBR/GPT partition at the location where the bootrom expects the bootloader. There's no rule that the bootloader needs to be located in unpartitioned space. > I have unfortunately found nothing in the manual about it. There's: https://rauc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples.html#atomic-bootloader-updates-emmc Cheers, Ahmad > > Greets Bernd > > -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Steuerwalder Str. 21 | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 |