Foundations Team Updates - 2026-04-30

Posting rather late, partly due to trouble doing so last week!

Stonking

Resolute

  • Ran through a whole bunch of old flash-kernel bugs looking for common EEPROM issues:
  • LP: #2150321 added some further instructions, but I think this one is just a misunderstanding of how dracut and flash-kernel interact
  • LP: #2138620 marked as fix released as I’d forgotten to mark this one on upload
  • There have been several bug reports involving upgrades not installing piboot-try
    • Worked through a whole bunch of upgrade scenarios from questing->resolute and noble->resolute
    • Couldn’t replicate the precise conditions, but did encounter several upgrade failures where u-r-u would simply fail to calculate the upgrade
    • Suspect several of the reports are trying a manual dist-upgrade
    • Still, quirks need to be added to u-r-u to force piboot-try into being installed (in a similar vein to the way dracut is forced on the Pi)

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