[PATCH 00/16] Convert extension support to UCLASS and adds its support to boot flows

Kory Maincent kory.maincent at bootlin.com
Fri Oct 3 18:33:40 CEST 2025


This series converts the extension board framework to use UCLASS as
requested by Simon Glass, then adds extension support to pxe_utils
and bootmeth_efi (not tested) to enable extension boards devicetree load
in the standard boot process.

The UCLASS implementation provides one driver that manages all
extension boards (alternative would be one U-Boot device per
extension board). Simon is that what you would expect?

Signed-off-by: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent at bootlin.com>
---
Kory Maincent (16):
      MAINTAINERS: Add maintainer for extension board support
      boot: Move extension board support from cmd/ to boot/
      boot: Add UCLASS support for extension boards
      board: ti: Exclude cape detection from XPL builds
      board: ti: Refactor cape detection code for readability
      board: ti: Convert cape detection to use UCLASS framework
      board: sunxi: Refactor CHIP board extension code
      board: sunxi: Convert extension support to UCLASS framework
      board: sandbox: Improve extension board scan implementation
      board: sandbox: Convert extension support to UCLASS framework
      board: compulab: Convert imx8mm-cl-iot-gate to UCLASS extension framework
      boot: Remove legacy extension board support
      boot: extension: Move overlay apply custom logic to command level
      boot: pxe_utils: Add extension board devicetree overlay support
      boot: bootmeth_efi: Refactor distro_efi_try_bootflow_files return logic
      boot: bootmeth_efi: Add extension board devicetree overlay support

 MAINTAINERS                                        |   9 +
 .../imx8mm-cl-iot-gate/imx8mm-cl-iot-gate.c        |  60 ++++---
 board/sandbox/sandbox.c                            |  22 ++-
 board/sunxi/chip.c                                 |  33 ++--
 board/ti/common/Makefile                           |   2 +
 board/ti/common/cape_detect.c                      |  52 +++---
 boot/Kconfig                                       |   3 +
 boot/Makefile                                      |   1 +
 boot/bootmeth_efi.c                                |  78 +++++++--
 boot/extension-uclass.c                            | 138 ++++++++++++++++
 boot/pxe_utils.c                                   |  90 ++++++++++
 cmd/Kconfig                                        |   5 +-
 cmd/extension_board.c                              | 183 ++++++++++-----------
 doc/usage/cmd/extension.rst                        |  24 +--
 include/dm/uclass-id.h                             |   1 +
 include/extension_board.h                          |  71 ++++++--
 16 files changed, 544 insertions(+), 228 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 9710d98e8942151fc0c62d54100d9d27e8263d04
change-id: 20250916-feature_sysboot_extension_board-958dd0072565

Best regards,
-- 
Köry Maincent, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com



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