Boot Loader Specification (UAPI Group)

Sebastian Veit sebastian.veit at lucimber.com
Wed Nov 16 11:50:57 CET 2022


Dear devs of U-Boot,

I'd like to know if there's already a work in progress
on the support of the "fairly new" Boot Loader Specification [1].

Summary of the new spec: Defines a set of file formats and
naming conventions to allow distribution independent
boot loader menus supportable by multiple bootloaders.

Don't confuse this specification with the one you've already
implemented for syslinux [2]. It seems like the similar name
confused people in the past [3].

Maybe it'll be part of the new bootflow design - that has
been introduced in v2022.07 [4] - some time in the future?


Thanks in advance,
Sebastian Veit


[1] https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/boot_loader_specification/
[2] https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=EXTLINUX
[3] https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2018-October/344721.html
[4] https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/issues/1
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