SM8250: qcom-abl bootloader - #3127
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Every Qualcomm build printed two warnings per image -- an unknown bootloader type, then missing files under a /usr/share directory that was never going to exist -- for a step that had already been done correctly somewhere else. scripts/mkimage generates the config for both, and projects/ROCKNIX/bootloader/mkimage's mkimage_abl() mcopies the ABL binary into the boot partition. Verified: rocknix_abl is present in the built SM8550 image. It was not one target. SM6115, SM8550, SM8650 and SM8750 all set qcom-abl and SM8250 sets arm-efi, so all five Qualcomm devices fell through to the generic fallback, and upstream PR ROCKNIX#3127 would have added a sixth by moving SM8250 to qcom-abl too. u-boot already had a silent case saying device-specific scripts handle it. This is the same statement for the two bootloaders that are written at image time. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017MNuiPG1kb43P7h2xBQQtV
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Summary
SM8250: qcom-abl bootloader
Testing
Clean flash
rocknix-ablv1.1.7 (since V1.1.5)qcom-abl-based OTA updatesUpdate from stock abl / stable grub ROCKNIX build
Update: after merging PR #3217 the update process to a ROCKNIX ABL-based build from the stock bootloader and GRUB-based ROCKNIX build works fine.
Testing updates prior to merging PR: https://github.com//pull/3217
Flashed stock recovery package from https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mE2Fe_Nuek8XW9geciksXUZtoxV6m2yF with
qdl version 1.0+git20250319.30ac3a8-1:Flashed fixed loader for RP Mini V2 here: https://rocknix.org/devices/retroid/retroid-pocket-mini/#retroid-pocket-mini-v2
Flashed 20260801 monthly release to an SD card:
Booted up fine, but block device with abl partitions had GPT partition table corruption:
After a couple of
partprobeattempts, was able to runupdateablsuccessfully:Booted via rocknix ABL fine, and after reboot, GPT table corruption is gone:
Was then able to update to a test
qcom-abl-based SM8250 build fine, booted up fine.installtointernalworked fine.Additional Context
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