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

[Peter Robinson]

>> >> >>> 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..

Ah, that's one for installer support so if it sees u-boot on x86 it
updates the appropriate bits of the bootloader. Those bits should be
relatively straight forward, it's on my list to investigate for
aarch64 too so I'll keep it in mine when I try to get around to doing
that.

Peter