[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 0/4] Add FreeBSD kconfig options

[Emmanuel Vadot]

 Hi Alexander,

On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 20:36:59 +0100
Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 17/01/2017 16:50, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> > This series of patches add the needed bits for booting the FreeBSD
> > loader and kernel.
> > FreeBSD loader and kernel needs the U-Boot API and dcache/icache flushed
> > for it to run so add this operation in go/bootelf command and when closing
> > the API.
> > Also add some some boot command that locate and run the FreeBSD loader
> > if found.
> 
> Is there any particular reason the EFI boot path doesn't work for you?
> 
> Configuring u-boot differently to be able to boot FreeBSD sounds a bit 
> strange to me.
> 
> 
> Alex

 EFI works fine for us, that's what we use for arm64 (pine64/rpi3 for
example) because we want to only use EFI for arm64.
 For armv6/v7 we have legacy devices etc ... and even if EFI works
(well honestly I have to fix our smbios code for it to work properly)
we need to be able to boot without EFI support.
 With this series of patches is an EFI binary is found this is the one
that would be loaded, so when the times comes we could make our
releases with EFI bootloaders for ARM. In the meantimes we still need
the U-Boot API for our loader.

 Cheers,

-- 
Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> <manu at freebsd.org>