[PATCH v2 00/56] expo: Various features and improvements
Caleb Connolly
caleb.connolly at linaro.org
Mon Mar 31 12:06:32 CEST 2025
On 3/31/25 03:18, Simon Glass wrote:
> 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
Please at least make it clear which series you send don't apply on
mainline in the cover letter.
> 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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