From: Zhihang Wei <wzh@ilbers.de>
To: alexander.heinisch@siemens.com, isar-users@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Add target bootstrapper framework
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:59:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <03775d5b-497a-4935-91ca-ac4b81086e9b@ilbers.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250922170445.1393839-1-alexander.heinisch@siemens.com>
Applied to next, thanks.
On 9/22/25 19:04, alexander.heinisch via isar-users wrote:
> From: Alexander Heinisch<alexander.heinisch@siemens.com>
>
> Currently the installer deploys images embedded to itself.
>
> In many situations this is fine, but for some more demanding requirements
> are in place. e.g.:
> - enrollment of keys (e.g. Secure Boot),
> - setup for disk encryption,
> - collection and reporting of device information (serial number, mac addresses, ...)
> - resize / repartition of disk during comissioning
> - generation of a commissioning report
>
> While many of these tasks can be done on first-boot doing so during
> device setup can be beneficial in many cases.
> e.g.
> - additional time required for "first-boot" when performing tasks
> with high effort on site may not be desired
> - the comissioning environment oftentimes allows for failures during
> that phase - worst case the device is put aside. On site failures during
> the wrong bootstrapping phases (secure boot setup, disk encryption)
> can be severe.
>
> This patch extends current installer behaviour to support a flexible
> framework to define multiple tasks to be executed in sequence during
> the "target (device) bootstrapping" phase.
>
> Note: Current patchset uses installer and target-bootstrapper interchangeably.
> Imo the name target-bootstrapper fits better to the actual purpose,
> while installer is already established for some time in isar and changing
> the naming would probably break some downstream. Although, that could be
> fixed in a backwards compatible way, I left this exercise open upon agreement.
>
> Alexander Heinisch (6):
> isar-installer: Moved installer related Kconfig to separate file.
> isar-installer: Added target bootstrapper framework
> isar-installer: Use target-bootstrapper-service in favour of
> deploy-image-service
> isar-installer: Removed deploy-image-service
> isar-installer: Fixing race between ttys in unattended mode.
> isar-installer: Added example target bootstrapper task to collect
> device information.
>
> kas/image/Kconfig | 83 ++------------
> kas/image/isar-image-installer.yaml | 6 +
> kas/installer/Kconfig | 104 ++++++++++++++++++
> kas/installer/add-device-info-collector.yaml | 14 +++
> kas/installer/unattended.yaml | 18 +++
> meta-isar/classes/target-bootstrapper.bbclass | 37 +++++++
> .../images/isar-image-installer.bb | 2 +-
> .../deploy-image-service.bb | 21 ----
> .../files/install.override.conf | 5 -
> .../device-info-collector.bb | 27 +++++
> .../files/usr/bin/device-info-collector.sh | 28 +++++
> .../files/target-bootstrapper.override.conf | 3 +
> .../target-bootstrapper-service.bb | 38 +++++++
> .../files/target-bootstrapper.sh.tmpl | 44 ++++++++
> .../target-bootstrapper.bb | 41 +++++++
> 15 files changed, 369 insertions(+), 102 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 kas/installer/Kconfig
> create mode 100644 kas/installer/add-device-info-collector.yaml
> create mode 100644 kas/installer/unattended.yaml
> create mode 100644 meta-isar/classes/target-bootstrapper.bbclass
> delete mode 100644 meta-isar/recipes-installer/deploy-image-service/deploy-image-service.bb
> delete mode 100644 meta-isar/recipes-installer/deploy-image-service/files/install.override.conf
> create mode 100644 meta-isar/recipes-installer/device-info-collector/device-info-collector.bb
> create mode 100755 meta-isar/recipes-installer/device-info-collector/files/usr/bin/device-info-collector.sh
> create mode 100644 meta-isar/recipes-installer/target-bootstrapper-service/files/target-bootstrapper.override.conf
> create mode 100644 meta-isar/recipes-installer/target-bootstrapper-service/target-bootstrapper-service.bb
> create mode 100644 meta-isar/recipes-installer/target-bootstrapper/files/target-bootstrapper.sh.tmpl
> create mode 100644 meta-isar/recipes-installer/target-bootstrapper/target-bootstrapper.bb
>
> --
> 2.39.5
>
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-22 17:04 alexander.heinisch via isar-users
2025-09-22 17:04 ` [PATCH 1/6] isar-installer: Moved installer related Kconfig to separate file alexander.heinisch via isar-users
2025-09-22 17:04 ` [PATCH 2/6] isar-installer: Added target bootstrapper framework alexander.heinisch via isar-users
2025-09-22 17:04 ` [PATCH 3/6] isar-installer: Use target-bootstrapper-service in favour of deploy-image-service alexander.heinisch via isar-users
2025-09-22 17:04 ` [PATCH 4/6] isar-installer: Removed deploy-image-service alexander.heinisch via isar-users
2025-09-22 17:04 ` [PATCH 5/6] isar-installer: Fixing race between ttys in unattended mode alexander.heinisch via isar-users
2025-09-22 17:04 ` [PATCH 6/6] isar-installer: Added example target bootstrapper task to collect device information alexander.heinisch via isar-users
2025-10-14 14:59 ` Zhihang Wei [this message]
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