[PATCH 1/1] boot: BOOTMETH_DISTRO should select BOOTMETH_EFI_BOOTMGR

[Simon Glass]

Hi Heinrich,

On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 at 03:43, Heinrich Schuchardt
<heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Distros expect the EFI boot manager to run. It falls back to launching
> EFI\BOOT\BOOT<ARCH>.EFI from the ESP.
>
> BOOTMETH_EFILOADER is obsolete.
>
> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com>
> ---
>  boot/Kconfig | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/boot/Kconfig b/boot/Kconfig
> index fb37d912bc9..89076220adb 100644
> --- a/boot/Kconfig
> +++ b/boot/Kconfig
> @@ -597,6 +597,9 @@ config BOOTMETH_EFILOADER
>         imply CMD_TFTPBOOT if CMD_NET
>         default y
>         help
> +         This bootmeth is obsolete. BOOTMETH_EFI_BOOTMGR takes care of
> +         launching EFI\BOOT\BOOT<ARCH>.EFI if no boot option matches.
> +
>           Enables support for EFI boot using bootdevs. This makes the
>           bootdevs look for a 'boot<arch>.efi' on each filesystem
>           they scan. The resulting file is booted after enabling U-Boot's
> @@ -648,7 +651,7 @@ config BOOTMETH_DISTRO
>         select BOOTMETH_SCRIPT if CMDLINE # E.g. Armbian uses scripts
>         select BOOTMETH_EXTLINUX  # E.g. Debian uses these
>         select BOOTMETH_EXTLINUX_PXE if CMD_PXE && CMD_NET && DM_ETH
> -       select BOOTMETH_EFILOADER if EFI_BINARY_EXEC # E.g. Ubuntu uses this
> +       select BOOTMETH_EFI_BOOTMGR if EFI_BINARY_EXEC # E.g. Ubuntu uses this
>
>  config SPL_BOOTMETH_VBE
>         bool "Bootdev support for Verified Boot for Embedded (SPL)"
> --
> 2.48.1
>

I don't want to make this bootmeth obsolete. What is the motivation for that?

Regards,
Simon