[PATCH v4 00/20] Convert extension support to UCLASS and adds its support to boot flows

[Kory Maincent]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:31:36 -0600
Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 05:20:11PM +0200, Kory Maincent (TI.com) wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> > I can't test the imx8 extension scan enabled by the
> > imx8mm-cl-iot-gate_defconfig as I don't have this board.
> > I also can't test the efi bootmeth change as I don't have such board.  
> 
> This has fail to build problems on:
> sandbox_spl sandbox_noinst sandbox_vpl

Ok I will take a look at these build errors.

> Seems otherwise fine however, size growth on platforms not utilizing
> this looks good. It's a big big when you need it, but it's main U-Boot
> and I think in the end, something we can live with.

Do you see some improvement I could make in v5 to decrease the footprint of this
support?

Regards,
-- 
Köry Maincent, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and kernel engineering
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