[PATCH v2 9/9] efi: Make EBBR optional

[Heinrich Schuchardt]

On 7/2/21 10:38 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> On Fri, 2 Jul 2021 at 14:11, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 02, 2021 at 12:36:20PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
>>
>>> Avoid enabling the options (EBBR / EFI_LOADER) by default, to save space.
>>>
>>> Resync the CONFIG options also.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>>
>> NAK.  It's very much intentional that we have EFI_LOADER, and then
>> looking ahead, any other options that would be required to be EBBR
>> compliant, be enabled by default on platforms that can support them,
>> rather than optional.
>
> As you can tell, I'm not convinced that EBBR is a good idea, even
> though I can see it is expedient. Anyway I do appreciate your clear
> guidance and direction on this sort of thing and I'm sure many others > do also.

Having a bunch of non-standardized methods to start an operating system
is not really compelling. Currently UEFI is the only widespread,
operating system independent boot standard.

Best regards

Heinrich

>
> Regards,
> Simon
>