[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/9] EFI payload / application support

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Fri Dec 25 04:29:39 CET 2015


On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 02:57:47PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:

> This is my Christmas present for my openSUSE friends :).
> 
> U-Boot is a great project for embedded devices. However, convincing
> everyone involved that only for "a few oddball ARM devices" we need to
> support different configuration formats from grub2 when all other platforms
> (PPC, System Z, x86) are standardized on a single format is a nightmare.
> 
> So we started to explore alternatives. At first, people tried to get
> grub2 running using the u-boot api interface. However, FWIW that one
> doesn't support relocations, so you need to know where to link grub2 to
> at compile time. It also seems to be broken more often than not. And on
> top of it all, it's a one-off interface, so yet another thing to maintain.
> 
> That led to a nifty idea. What if we can just implement the EFI application
> protocol on top of U-Boot? Then we could compile a single grub2 binary for
> uEFI based systems and U-Boot based systems and as soon as that one's loaded,
> everything looks and feels (almost) the same.
> 
> This patch set is the result of pursuing this endeavor.

So, I owe the whole codebase a real review.  My very quick question
however is, aside from what you had to borrow from wine, can you license
everything else as GPL v2 or later rather than LGPL?

-- 
Tom
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