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

[Matwey V. Kornilov]

2016-01-04 19:56 GMT+03:00 Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>:
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 05:25:44PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> [snip]
>> I am not aware of anyone using the U-Boot API for grub these days, so
>> I'm not sure it's an incredibly useful goal. The main pain point distros
>> seem to have is to make something that "just works" on all systems out
>> there. Moving into that direction should be our ultimate goal.
>
> Please note that with the generic distro framework U-Boot will grok
> https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/ and

I would say this is pretty alpha spec. How should I specify fallback
booting with it?
Not to mention that currently grub2 perfectly boots from LVM and MD
partitions in my installations and this is not supported in spec (from
what I see).

p.s. > Currently there's little cooperation between multiple
distributions in dual-boot (or triple, ... multi-boot) setups

Have you ever seen anybody really needed it?


> things Just Work.  I setup a bunch of SD cards with Debian and Fedora
> over holiday so I can drop them in whatever board and boot up Linux as a
> sanity test.
>
> I certainly can see a usecase for kicking off an EFI binary as part of
> fitting into existing work-flows.  But we do already have a something
> for getting rid of that particular pain-point and it's working :)
>
> --
> Tom



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