[PATCH 00/52] expo: Various features and improvements

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 03:39:26AM +0000, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 at 15:57, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 03:54:05PM +0100, Simon Glass wrote:
> >
> > > This series collects together some new features for expo to make it more
> > > useful for boot menus:
> > >
> > > - measurement and display of multi-line text objects
> > > - internal alignment for objects (e.g. centred text)
> > > - editable strings in text fields
> > > - new 'box' object to draw a rectangle
> > > - highlighting of menu items, rather than just relying on a pointer
> > >
> > > Expo's boot menu is restructured so that it is possible to iterate
> > > through various bootdevs and update the menu as new ones are found. This
> > > is more in keeping with how bootstd works.
> > >
> > > A new textedit object is added, intended to provide a simple text
> > > editor. Future work will complete this.
> > >
> > > With this series the boot menu has a better layout and appearance.
> > >
> > >
> > > Simon Glass (52):
> >
> > I see you haven't internalized the "don't post massive series" feedback
> > yet. Please, stop posting massive patch series. Figure out how to
> > logically break things down in to smaller chunks that can be
> > meaningfully reviewed.
> 
> I could split this into two series of ~25 patches, perhaps. Would that be OK?
> 
> I believe no one else is using expo yet, apart from postmarketOS,
> except the trivial case of 'bootflow scan -m' but I'm hoping that will
> change in the future. I believe that Linaro is mostly encouraging EFI
> bootmgr and the text-based menu. That could be converted to use expo
> but I doubt anyone has looked into that, particularly as grub is being
> pushed as well. I did look at converting the existing menu code a year
> or two ago, but it seemed better to eventually deprecate it.
> 
> Also, there is a following series which I split out and will post
> separately, but not for a while as I have a lot outstanding.
> 

It would make sense to split expo out to its own series as there's not
likely to be any feedback there. All of the other parts of the series
already have something else in their subject and that would be logical
places to split this up more and then assign to the appropriate
custodian. Thanks.

-- 
Tom
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