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

[Matthias Brugger]

On 19/11/2019 19:44, Heinrich Schuchardt 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
> 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.
> 

So I'd prefer to have UEFI enabled on the RPi boards, so that we have one
consistent boot for all Raspberry Pi variants.

Regards,
Matthias

> Do you see a necessity to use EFI_LOADER=n as default for any of the
> boards in the list above?
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Heinrich