[U-Boot] [ANN] U-Boot v2015.10-rc5 released

Rafal Jaworowski raj at semihalf.com
Thu Oct 15 10:28:02 CEST 2015


Hi Wolfgang, Tom,

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 9:28 AM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> Dear Tom,
>
> In message <20151015004002.GX23893 at bill-the-cat> you wrote:
>>
>> I'm just not sure what to do about CONFIG_API some days.  I know one use
>> case is for GRUB but I'd like to move away from that if possible
>> (distros should be doing the generic distro bits and extlinux.conf).
>> After that, I'm only hazily aware of the real use-cases.
>
> The major use case (as I understand it) are the FreeBSD users
> who need this API for booting.  I'm adding Rafal and Bartek to Cc:
> as they should know best if this interface is still in wide use.

Indeed, it's actively and widely used by the FreeBSD [last stage] bootloader.

Thanks,
Rafal


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