[PATCH v2 00/56] expo: Various features and improvements

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Mon Mar 31 03:18:25 CEST 2025


Hi Tom,

On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 at 03:47, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 07:05:47AM -0600, 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.
>
> Did I already say this for v2 and forget? It looks like you forgot,
> again, to split the expo stuff out from everything else, which others
> might review.

This series is all expo stuff. Can you please explain your objection
more clearly? I still don't really understand.

>
> [snip]
> > base-commit: 37ef92a972663c6de1b81d24d2ca5cfd664fc6df
> > branch: schd2
>
> Of course, not being on top of mainline, no one should spend much time
> on this anyhow.

As I thought we agreed, it is helpful to review patches so we can keep
the trees in sync so far as possible. I take your point that few will
be interested in expo and there may not be many comments, but sending
it makes it available for review and potentially sending a PR for your
tree at some point.

Regards,
Simon


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