xPL Proposal

[Simon Glass]

Hi Marek,

On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 at 19:13, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
>
> On 2/11/25 4:03 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> Hi,
>
> > I just wanted to send a note to (re-)introduce my ideas[1] for the
> > next iteration of xPL.
> >
> > A recent series introduced 'xPL' as the name for the various
> > pre-U-Boot phases
>
> Can xPL build also U-Boot "side-stages" , like for example
> self-contained blob which contains all the __secure material currently
> placed in separate linker section of U-Boot? It could be used to produce
> e.g. self-standing PSCI provider built from U-Boot code base.

Not yet, but with the work described here, yes. Ideally you would just
add a new phase to the Kconfig and everything would magically work.
I'd like to do the same for EFI runtime code.

>
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Regards,
Simon