[U-Boot] Should UEFI be disabled on ARM11 boards by default?

Maksym Sloyko maxims at waymo.com
Tue Nov 19 21:52:55 UTC 2019


On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 10:44 AM Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
wrote:

> Dear maintainers,
>
> "Pull request for UEFI sub-system for efi-2020-01-rc4" disables the UEFI
> sub-system for all boards except ARMv8, ARMv7, ARM11. This is necessary
> as UEFI requires support for unaligned access. For ARM11 a function is
> provided to switch unaligned access support on.
>
> Tom suggested to disable UEFI by default on ARM11 to reduce the size of
> the U-Boot binary. This would concern the following boards:
>
> evb-ast2500_defconfig
>

Sounds good to me for evb-ast2500


> flea3_defconfig
> integratorcp_cm1136_defconfig
> mx31pdk_defconfig
> mx35pdk_defconfig
> rpi_0_w_defconfig
> rpi_defconfig
> woodburn_defconfig
> woodburn_sd_defconfig
>
> At least the Raspberry boards should have no problem with UEFI enabled.
>
> Do you see a necessity to use EFI_LOADER=n as default for any of the
> boards in the list above?
>
> Best regards
>
> Heinrich
>


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