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

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Sun Jun 27 23:22:25 CEST 2021


On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 11:08:04PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > From: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
> > Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2021 23:03:58 +0200
> > 
> > On 6/27/21 9:44 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > NAK
> > 
> > Please, read https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/uEFIforARMv7.
> 
> +1
> 
> OpenBSD/armv7 relies on EFI loader support as well.

OK, thanks guys.  I missed the Fedora link and I thought *BSD was still
using a custom loader on v7.

-- 
Tom
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