[U-Boot] U-boot for 64bit ARMv8

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 06:10:06AM -0700, Richard Schmitt wrote:

> Is anyone considering porting/supporting uboot for ARMv8. ?Our initial
> investigation of boot loader support for ARMv8 indicates that the only
> boot loader currently being targeted is UEFI. ?
> 
> The decisions we need to make are:
> - Do we move to UEFI on ARM?
> - Can we leverage someone else's enablement of ARMv8?
> - Do we provide our own enablement of ARMv8?
> 
> Any opinions?

The general push from ARM Ltd is to use UEFI.  I would strongly suspect
that there are U-Boot forks that companies that have announced they are
doing ARMv8 chips have something as a stop-gap until they have the
functionality they want in uEFI.

I am quite open to ARMv8 support being added to U-Boot and addressing
the concerns companies may have.  Sometimes it seems like "GPLv2+" makes
people think "Project will be moving to GPLv3, RUN AWAY!" when all it
really means is "Project is GPLv2+, will evaluate the appropriateness of
later versions".

-- 
Tom
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