[PATCH] efi_loader: Do not enable by default on armv7

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Sun Jun 27 21:44:49 CEST 2021


We have had EFI loader support enabled by default on armv7 platforms for
a long time now.  However, there has been little uptake in the wider
community to use EFI loader support as the step to start a generic OS
distribution, on this architecture family and the focus has been on
armv8 instead.  Disable this by default for armv7 only.

Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf at csgraf.de>
Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
Cc: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas at linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Kettenis <kettenis at openbsd.org>
Cc: Masahisa Kojima <masahisa.kojima at linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
Cc: Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu at linaro.org>
Cc: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant at debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
---
I'm very much looking for feedback here that this is the wrong approach
and that I've missed the off the shelf distributions that make use of
this.
---
 lib/efi_loader/Kconfig | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/Kconfig b/lib/efi_loader/Kconfig
index 6242caceb7f9..8a22fe9951a3 100644
--- a/lib/efi_loader/Kconfig
+++ b/lib/efi_loader/Kconfig
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ config EFI_LOADER
 	depends on !EFI_STUB || !X86_64 || EFI_STUB_64BIT
 	# We need EFI_STUB_32BIT to be set on x86_32 with EFI_STUB
 	depends on !EFI_STUB || !X86 || X86_64 || EFI_STUB_32BIT
-	default y if !ARM || SYS_CPU = armv7 || SYS_CPU = armv8
+	default y if !ARM || SYS_CPU = armv8
 	select LIB_UUID
 	select HAVE_BLOCK_DEVICE
 	select REGEX
-- 
2.17.1



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