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

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 01:50:47AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 9:55 PM, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 03:52:08AM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
> >> Am 15.10.2015 um 02:40 schrieb Tom Rini:
> >> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 02:28:34AM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
> >> >> Am 12.10.2015 um 17:18 schrieb Tom Rini:
> >> >>> If you have a regression, speak up.
> >> >>
> >> >> For -rc4 I had reported that CONFIG_API is broken for sunxi among
> >> >> others. I was told this was fallout of the new Driver Model. Has anyone
> >> >> thought about how to fix this? Is that already a lost cause for 2015.10?
> >> >>
> >> >> Improving test coverage for such off-by-default features will also be
> >> >> helpful going forward. For instance, Simon's brand-new rk3288 code was
> >> >> lacking some MMC define for CONFIG_API to build iirc - that part is
> >> >> trivial to fix when actually build-testing. I'll see if I can polish
> >> >> some of my fixes in time.
> >> >
> >> > 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 problem is that no other platform uses those. On x86_64, ppc64le,
> >> s390x, aarch64, etc. we always use GRUB2. Whether it's boot.scr,
> >> extlinux.conf or anything else, it'll require changes to distro tools
> >> that end up being special-cased to 32-bit arm. With more and more server
> >> vendors adopting UEFI and aarch64, that seems a waste of effort.
> >
> > That's a thing to ponder, yes.  There's nothing ARM32 centric about the
> > generic distro framework and it's on my TODO list now to poke Fedora
> > about enabling the extlinux.conf knob on x86 because there's a growing
> > number of platforms using U-Boot there.  And hikey does (and Juno
> > should/will) be doing it as well.
> 
> Sure, do you mean patches against the various boards or something in
> the actual Fedora shipped components, either way both Dennis and I are
> on the list.

With respect to Fedora, it would be pretty nice if I could install F23
on my Minnowboard Max and have it use config_distro_bootcmd stuff.  I
think I mentioned this to Hans at ELCE and he said I probably just need
to ask and x86 can have the same extlinux.conf generation stuff that ARM
has :)  I of course need to go whack the minnow config in U-Boot, but
that's on me..

-- 
Tom
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