doc/mkinitfs.1: Fill in DEVICEINFO section

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Clayton Craft
2023-02-18 21:41:54 -08:00
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# DEVICEINFO
TODO: where is this specified?
The canonical deviceinfo "specification" is at
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Deviceinfo_reference
mkinitfs reads deviceinfo values from */etc/deviceinfo*. The following variables
are *required* by mkinitfs:
- deviceinfo_initfs_compression
- deviceinfo_mesa_driver
- deviceinfo_modules_initfs
- deviceinfo_uboot_boardname
It is a design goal to keep the number of required variables from deviceinfo to
a bare minimum, and to require only variables that don't hold lists of things.
# DIRECTORIES