Bloblist request

[Simon Glass]

Hi Tom,

On Mon, 26 May 2025 at 15:42, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, May 25, 2025 at 09:43:14AM +0100, Simon Glass wrote:
>
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > Bloblist is IMO a bit of a mess, with 2-3 maintainers who don't agree
> > on the direction.
> >
> > You have requested that I:
> > - implement a handoff protocol for x86 in the spec
> > - do the same in the code
> > - convert x86 boards to use OF_BLOBLIST
> > - remove BLOBLIST_FIXED
> >
> > I also want to enable VBE, which would require further work. I'm
> > sending a v4 today.
> >
> > I am willing to do the above, but to do so, I want to make bloblist a
> > first-class citizen, available on any arch, built into global_data,
> > with no reliance on weak functions.
> >
> > Please can you allow me to maintain bloblist?
>
> First, OK, yes, fine.

Thank you, I appreciate your flexibility on this. I'll prepare a v5
for that series.

>
> Second, for the record, I am compromising and "Saying Yes" to what you
> want to do, over what I think is a bad idea. We have had a mechanism to
> allow for saving off registers early so we can make use of them a little
> bit later as a "first class citizen" for 14 years come this July.
> Bloblist is not unique or new. What you want to do instead will come
> back to be a problem for some other valid use case later on and require
> some further architecture work at that time (or be an "ugly workaround"
> that we have to accept if we want that case to work).

I'm not sure if it would be helpful for me to respond to this now,
since I have already stated how I see things differently.

But perhaps we can take up this discussion again once my series is
applied and we can see the result?

Regards,
SImon