[PATCH v5 4/8] RFC: Revert "bootstd: Make efi_mgr bootmeth work for non-sandbox setups"

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Wed Nov 13 18:52:28 CET 2024


On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 08:09:34AM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:

> This is another option to fix sunxi booting with bootstd, which may be
> better since it will work for all boards. We can then figure out how to
> automatically and deterministicaly decide when bootmgr should be used.
> 
> This reverts commit f2bfa0cb17948aa4a0fa20fdf9014296b9c4d9c7.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> ---
> If this patch is applied, we don't need to drop bootmgr for sunxi
> 
> (no changes since v1)
> 
>  boot/bootmeth_efi_mgr.c | 18 +-----------------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 17 deletions(-)

This seems like the wrong direction to go since one of the common cases
should be "Do we just want to fire off the EFI boot manager? Yes" since
lots of "off the shelf" operating systems want to treat ARM just like
x86 and not have to special-case things.

-- 
Tom
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