Boot Loader Specification (UAPI Group)

[Simon Glass]

+Tom

Hi Sebastian,

On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 at 05:08, Sebastian Veit
<sebastian.veit at lucimber.com> wrote:
>
> 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?

I don't know of any ongoing work for this. In fact I'm not sure I've
heard of UAPI.

It would be possible to implement this as a new bootmeth - see the
boot/ directory for other ones.

Migration from distro scripts is underway, with the next series likely
to be sent by the end of this month.

Regards,
Simon


>
>
> 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