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

[Peter Robinson]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 10:22 PM Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Yes, so Fedora uses UEFI by default for across all arm devices now.
Linaro also uses it for a bunch of their reference platforms but Ilias
will be able to better provide details there.

Peter